Biography Nick Joaquin

Nick Joaquin

“National Artist for Literature”

“Philippine Novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist in English”

Name: Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin

Aka: “Quijano de Manila”

Born: May 4, 1917 (Paco Manila on Calle Herran)

Died: April 29, 2004 (San Juan Metro Manila)

Parents: Atty. Leocadio Y. Joaquin (colonel of the Philippine Revolution)

Salome Marquez (school teacher)

Educational Background:

Elementary: Mapa High School in Intramuros

Secondary: Mapa High School in Intramuros (up to 3rd year)

College: St. Albert College in Hong Kong

Literary Career:

@17 – published his first poem I the Tribune the “WWII Manila Times”

1950 – Philippine Free Press: Proof Reader then later Literary Editor

1971 – Asia Philippine Leader: editor-in-chief

1990 – Philippine Graphic: Editor

Travels:

1957- under a fellowship from the Harper Publishing Company in United States

and later in Mexico.

During Martial Law:

Keep himself busy compiling his Philippine Free Press Article for a series of

books, writing new plays and stories, publishing feature articles from time to

time, accepting commissions for biographies, and running a column “small beer”,

in one newspaper.

Literary Works:

* Authored more than 2 dozen books

1935 – Tribune, the WWII Manila Times

1945 – Three Generations

1952 – Prose and Poems

1962 – Selected Stories

1964 – La Naval de Manila and other Essays

1966 – A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

1976 – Complete Poems and Plays of Joe Rizal (Translation of Rizal’s works in

english)

1977 – Pocket Book Series:

Nora Aunor and other Profiles

Ronnie Poe and other Silhouettes

Reportage on Lovers

Reportage on Crime

Amalia Fuentes and other Etchings

Gloria Diaz and other Delineations

Dove lion and other Cameos

- Question of Heroes

1979 – Tropical Baroque

Tatarin

Father and Sons

The Beateas

1980 – Manila: Sin City and other Chronicles

- Language of the Street and other Essays

1983 – Cave and Shadows

1987 – Collected Verse

1988 – Culture and History

1991 – Manila, My Manila

Awards / Winnings:

1945 – best short story, “Three Generations”

1949 – won literary contest held by Dominicans

1960 – first Stone Hill Fellowship Award for “The Woman who had two Navels”

1961 – Republic Cultural Heritage Awards for literature

1964 – Patnubay ng Sining at Lakinangan Award

1976 – Conferred the title “National Artist in Literature”

Don Carlos Panca Memorial Award:

1958 – La Vidal

1965 – Dona Jeronima

1976 – The Beateas

Manila Critics Circles National Book Awards:

1983 – The Aquinos of Tarlac

1986 – The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power

Apocalypse

1988 – Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine

Becoming

1990 – The World of Damian Domingo: 19th Century Manila, co-written with

Luciano P.R. Santiago and James Ongpin

- The Enigma: The Profile of a Filipino as Manager

Received the ESSO Journalism Award Several Times