F. Sionil Jose ( Francisco Sionil Jose) is a fictionist who was was born in December 3, 1924 in Rosales, Pangasinan. He is a son of Antonio Jose, an Aglipayan minister, and Sophia Sionil, and he is married to Maria Teresa Jovellanos with seven children. When he was young, he had to help in supporting his family by raising hogs and working as a farm laborer. While he is working for his family, his mother encouraged him to love books. Jose started writing in grade school. In his 5th grade, one of Jose's teacher opened up a school library, and Jose managed to read Jose Rizal's "Noli Me Tangere", Willa Carter's "My Antonia" and others.
He studied grade school in Rosales Elementary School, high school in Far Eastern University High School, and took pre-medicine in Manila College of Pharmacy and Dentistry, then to University of Santo Tomas, but shifted to Liberal Arts after World War II. During his college years, he became an editor-in-chief in the university paper "The Varsitarian." In 1947, he joined the staff of Commonwealth, a Catholic magazine. He went to work with the United States Information Service (USIS) as assistant editor. He worked there from 1948 to 1949. Later on, he became managing editor of the Sunday Times Magazine from 1957 - 1960, editor of Comment, and managing editor of Hong Kong-based Asia Magazine.He founded the Philippine Chapter of Poets, Playwrights, Essayist, Novelists (PEN) International Organization in 1958.
After working briefly in Sri Lanka as information officer for the Colombo Plan Bureau, he returned to Philippines in 1965 and set up t Solidaridad Publishing House as became a publisher, and Solidaridad Bookshop Ermita, Manila, together with his wife. In 1962, Jose has been a professional lecturer in Arellano University, De La Salle University, and University of the East. He was also a writer-in-residence at the National University of Singapore, a visiting researcher at Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in Japan, and a consultant for the Department of Agrarian Reform.
F. Sionil Jose created different novels, essays, short stories, and verses.His works was translated into several languages like Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian, Dutch, Indonesian, and Ilocano. He wrote the best of all his works, The Pretenders (1962). With his works he has various awards and he is known now as the National Artist for Literature in 2001.
Sources:
http://kulturang-noypi.blogspot.com/2011/07/biography-of-francisco-sionil-jose.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Sionil_Jos%C3%A9
http://geemiz.blogspot.com/2009/09/biography-francisco-sionil-jose.html
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/F._Sionil_Jose
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