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Alejandro Reyes Roces (13 July 1924 – 23 May 2011) was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as Secretary of Education from 1962 to 1965, during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal .
Alejandro Roces: 1996 (L.H.D.) GS, HS, SAS L.H.D. honoris causa: Short story writer, essayist, former Philippine Secretary of Education (1962–1965), Chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (2001–02), National Artist of the Philippines for Literature (2003) [20] Ildefonso P. Santos Jr. 1948 HS —
The magazine had its beginning back 1989 when Ramon Roces, the eldest son of Alejandro Roces, introduced it after the ill-fated Photo News had declined in the market. Roces, a prominent man in the publishing business, first conceived Photo News. It was a magazine with its own style, carrying eleven languages including (Spanish, Tagalog and ...
These stories often took place in the countryside, and portrayed every day Filipino activities like church-going, farming, courting, and cockfighting. The most well-known example was the short story My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken by Alejandro Roces. [18]
Alejandro Roces (1924–2011) Philippines Pacita Icasiano-Habana (d. 2016) et al. [l] Philippines 1973, 1974: Purita Kalaw Ledesma (1914–2005) Philippines: Nick Joaquin: 4 May 1917 Paco, Manila, Philippines 29 May 2004 San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines 1985: A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1950) The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961)
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The fifth and last novel in the Rosales series, Po-on, focuses on the Samson family.The novel is set during the Philippine–American War, when revolution and nationalism were presented as the solution to the social and political problems in the Philippines.
Roces Family Mausoleum Alejandro Roces Sr. (1875–1943) – newspaper publisher, "Father of Philippine Journalism" Joaquin "Chino" Roces (1913–1988) – nationalist, newspaper publisher, and freedom fighter during the reign of Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos .