Bibliography: ABOUT THE AUTHOR *A native Manileñ*o,Nick Joaquin was born in the district of Paco,on Calle Herran,in 1917.His parents were Don Leocadio Joaquin,a colonel of the Philippine Revolution and a prominent lawyer during the 1920s;and Do*ñ*a Salome Marques,one of the first teachers to be appointed to the public school system set up by the Americans. The Joaquins were originally from Obando,Bulacan,but the author’s grandfather moved to the village* of *San Pedro Makati* in the 19*th* century,to establish a kamalig,or pottery factory,and from San Pedro *Makati*,then popularly known as Sampiro,the Joaquins moved to *Manila*.* Do*ñ*a Salome Marques was from Sampiro. Nick Joaquin grew up in Paco,in the long accesoria his father had built on Calle Herran,beside Paco church;and also in Sampiro,where his family had a summer house beside the Pasig,in the barrio called Olimpia (or Ibaba),then completely rustic countryside.In fact,Sampiro was then pure boondocks,very different from today’s ultra-modern Makati.What’s now Ayala Avenue and Forbes Park was then rice paddy,fodder field and carabao wallow. Got into writing just before the war,Nick Joaquin started out as versifier,experimented with fiction,was noticed and hailed by Jose Garcia Villa,and settled down as journalist after the war,when he made Quijano de Manila his famous byline as a reporter for the Free Press Magazine. Since then he has also made a name for himself as novelist,playwright,historian.biographer,and a beer drinker. *Nick Joaquin has traveled widely and has lived at various junctures in Hong Kong,Madrid,New York* and Mexico.He was among the fist Filipinos to be admitted into the then taboo portals of *China* and Cuba.He was named a National Artist in 1976.
Bibliography: ABOUT THE AUTHOR *A native Manileñ*o,Nick Joaquin was born in the district of Paco,on Calle Herran,in 1917.His parents were Don Leocadio Joaquin,a colonel of the Philippine Revolution and a prominent lawyer during the 1920s;and Do*ñ*a Salome Marques,one of the first teachers to be appointed to the public school system set up by the Americans. The Joaquins were originally from Obando,Bulacan,but the author’s grandfather moved to the village* of *San Pedro Makati* in the 19*th* century,to establish a kamalig,or pottery factory,and from San Pedro *Makati*,then popularly known as Sampiro,the Joaquins moved to *Manila*.* Do*ñ*a Salome Marques was from Sampiro. Nick Joaquin grew up in Paco,in the long accesoria his father had built on Calle Herran,beside Paco church;and also in Sampiro,where his family had a summer house beside the Pasig,in the barrio called Olimpia (or Ibaba),then completely rustic countryside.In fact,Sampiro was then pure boondocks,very different from today’s ultra-modern Makati.What’s now Ayala Avenue and Forbes Park was then rice paddy,fodder field and carabao wallow. Got into writing just before the war,Nick Joaquin started out as versifier,experimented with fiction,was noticed and hailed by Jose Garcia Villa,and settled down as journalist after the war,when he made Quijano de Manila his famous byline as a reporter for the Free Press Magazine. Since then he has also made a name for himself as novelist,playwright,historian.biographer,and a beer drinker. *Nick Joaquin has traveled widely and has lived at various junctures in Hong Kong,Madrid,New York* and Mexico.He was among the fist Filipinos to be admitted into the then taboo portals of *China* and Cuba.He was named a National Artist in 1976.