Carlos Bulosan is a self-educated and prolific writer determined to voice the struggles he had undergone as a Filipino coming to America and the struggles he had witnessed of other people. Like many of his fellow Filipinos in his time.(source: Bulosan Biography. <http://www.bulosan.org/html/bulosan_biography.html>
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Francisco Sionil Jose, has been called a Philippine national treasure. Born on December 3, 1924 in Rosales, Philippines, he was introduced to literature in public school and later at the University of Santo Tomas. While working as a journalist in Manila, he moonlighted writing short stories and eventually novels. In the late fifties Jose founded the Philippine branch of PEN, an international organization of poets, playwrights, and novelists. In 1965 he started his own publishing house SOLIDARIDAD, and a year later he began publishing the remarkable Solidarity, a journal of current affairs, ideas, and arts, still going strong today.
(source:www.me.uvic.ca/~art/afsj.html: Francisco Sionil Jose.2008.Web. 24 june 2009.
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