NICK JOAQUIN was bored on May 4 , 1917 (6:00am) in Paco, Manila. A poet, fictionist, essayist, biographer, playwright and considered as National Artist.
When he was in third year in secondary education at Mapa High School, he quit because for him classroom work bores him. He rather like to spend his days in reading books at his father's library. He often read those fictional stories. Definitely, he is a bookworm.
He doesn't like sports, dressing up and fish.
In 1934, he start to write essays, short stories and poems. It was published in Maila magazines. One of his essay (La Naval de Manila, 1943) was awarded by the Dominicans as AA (Associate in Arts). He also granted a 2 year scholarship award to the Albert College in Hongkong, he accepted it.
Nick Joaquin received awards and prizes:
Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1961);
Stonehill Award for the Novel (1960);
FIRST PRIZE-Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest (1949);
FIRST PRIZE-Palance Memorial Award (1957-58);
Jose Garcia Villa's honor roll (1940);
The National Artist Award (1976)
His fellow writers though that Joaquin is a Filipino with a real imagination, a great writer, has his own stylist way.
He published a lot of books. For me, he trained himself by reading books. That those books he read inspires him to write those wonderful stories for us, like him enjoy and imagine the things we can do about Literature. That some day like him we can write a wonderful story!!!
SOURCE: (picture)http://www.filipinoexpress.com/18/43_joaquin.jpg
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