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Zoilo Mercado Galang (July 27, 1895 – 1959 [1]) was a Filipino writer from Pampanga. He is credited as one of the pioneering Filipino writers who worked with the English language. [ 2 ] He is the author of the first Philippine novel written in the English language, A Child of Sorrow , published in 1921.
A Child of Sorrow is a 1921 novel by the Filipino author Zoilo Galang. [1] It is considered the first Philippine novel written in English. [2] Critics have suggested that the novel was heavily influenced by the sentimentalism of the Tagalog prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [3]
Zoilo Galang's A Child of Sorrow (1921), the first Filipino novel in English, and Box of Ashes and Other Stories (1925), the first collection of stories in book form; Villa’s Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933); "The Wound and the Scar" (1937) by Arturo Rotor, a collection of stories;
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[8] [9] Filipino journalist Romulo Virola noted Ramon Magsaysay, Manuel L. Quezon, Felipe Agoncillo, Concepción Felix, Josefa Llanes Escoda, Lope K. Santos, Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, Huseng Batute, Carlos Bulosan, and Zoilo Galang as "Filipinos who could have won the Nobel Prize if only they were nominated." [6]
Francisco Arcellana; Francisco Balagtas; Lualhati Bautista; Louis Bulaong; Carlos Bulosan; Cecilia Manguerra Brainard; Ian Casocot; Linda Ty Casper; Gilbert Luis R. Centina III
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