Nationality: Filipino. Born: Rosales, Pangasinan, 1924. Education: The University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Litt.B. 1949. Career: Staff member, Commonweal, Manila, 1947-48; assistant editor, United States Information Agency, U.S. Embassy, Manila, 1948-49; associate editor, 1949-57, and managing editor, 1957-60, Manila Times Sunday magazine, and editor of Manila Times annual Progress, 1958-60; editor, Comment quarterly, Manila, 1956-62; managing editor, Asia magazine, Hong Kong, 1961-62; information officer, Colombo Plan Headquarters, Ceylon, 1962-64; correspondent, Economist, London, 1968-69. Since 1965 publisher, Solidaridad Publishing House, and general manager, Solidaridad Bookshop, since 1966 publisher and editor, Solidarity magazine, and since 1967 manager, Solidaridad Galleries, all Manila. Lecturer, Arellano University, 1962, University of the East graduate school, 1968, and De La Salle University, 1984-86, all Manila; writer-in-residence, National University of Singapore, 1987; visiting research scholar, Center for S
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Bibliography
1953 The Chief Mourner (novel)
1956 The Balete Tree (novel)
1962 The Pretenders (US: The Samsons) (novel)
1968 The God Stealer and Other Stories (stories)
1978 Tree (US: Don Vicente) (novel)
1979 My Brother, My Executioner (US: Don Vicente) (novel)
1980 Waywaya and Other Short Stories from the Philippines (later: Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Stories) (stories)
1982 Mass (later: Mis; US: The Samsons) (novel)
1982 Two Filipino Women (novellas)
1983 Platinum: Ten Filipino Stories (stories)
1985 Po-on (US: Dusk) (novel)
1988 Ermita (novel)
1988 Olvidon and Other Stories (stories)
1988 Questions (poetry)
1988 Literature and Liberation (essays)
1991 Gagamba, the Spiderman (novel)
1992 Three Filipino Women (novellas)
1993 Viajero (novel)
1994 Sin (US: Sins) (novel)
1998 Puppy Love and Thirteen Short Stories (stories)
1998 In Search of the Word: Selected Essays of F. Sionil José
1999 We Filipinos: Our Moral Malaise, Our Heroic Heritage (essays)
2000 Soba, Senbei and Shibuya: A Memoir of Post-War Japan
2001 Ben Singkol (novel)
2001 The God Stealer and Oth