Three Filipino Women

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in 1924 in the township of Rosales on the island of Luzon, F. SIONIL JOSÉ is one of the foremost Filipino novelists in English, as well as a leading publisher, magazine editor, and bookseller. He found the Philippine Center of International PEN in 1958. His work has been translated widely, and he has won numerous awards, including the prestigeous Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Award^* for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts in 1980. In addition to his other novels and stories, Mr. José is well known for the Rosales Saga, a social history of the Philippines that Random House will begin to publish in 1993.

^*Every year, since 1958, five Asians selected from Pakistan to Korea in the Far East, and Indonesia in Southeast Asia, are given this award, named after the famous Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay. The prize is in five categories and carries with it the sum of thirty thousand dollars.