Francisco “FRANZ”

Eugenio Zacarias
Aquino Arcellana

ANALYN VEGA
ABEGAIL B. VIEJON
  Sept. 6, 1916
 Sta. Cruz, Manila

 August 1, 2002
 Cerebral stroke and pneumonia
 85 years old

 Manila
  Jose Arcellana at
 Epifania Quino

 Emerenciana Yuvencio
 Professor emeritus in UP (The
Relevance of Recto Today)

 Francisco Jr., Elizabeth, Jose

Esteban, Maria Epifania, Juan
Eugenio, Emerenciana Jr.
  He received his first schooling
in Tondo.

 Manila West High School (later

Torres High School)
 Member of the Torres Torch

 Entered University of the Philippines as a pre

medical student at the age of 16
 Graduated in 1939 with a bachelor degree in
Philosophy
  Francisco Arcellana is a Filipino
writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist
and teacher.

 Worked in the Herald Midweek as a columnist

with his weekly article titled “Art and Life” (later
retitled “Life and Letters”)
 Worked in Philcross, the publication of Philippine
Red Cross

 Worked as manager of International News Service and

the editor of This Week
 Faculty of UP Department of English and Comparative
Literature
 Adviser of Philippine Collegian
 Director of UP Creative Writing Center
  His short story “The Flowers of May” won
second prize in 1951 Don Carlos Palanca
Memorial Award for Literature.

 “Wing of Madness,” placed second in the

Philippines Free Press literary contest in 1953.
 He also received the first award in art criticism
from the Art Association of the Philippines in 1954.

 The Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award

from the city government of Manila in 1981 and
the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for
English fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat
sa Pilipino (UMPIL) in 1988.
 
He was conferred a doctorate in
humane letters honoris causa by the
University of the Philippines in 1989.
 He was proclaimed National Artist in
Literature in June 23, 1990
  Selected Stories (1962)
 Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in
English in the Philippines Today (1977)
 The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990)

 Frankie
The Man Who Would Be Poe
 Death in a Factory
 Lina
A Clown Remembers
Divided by Two, The Mats

 The Other Woman

 This Being the Third Poem This Poem is for
Mathilda
 To Touch You and I Touched Her