Biography : Francisco Sionil Jose

Work Experience
– editor-in-chief of the university paper The Varsitarian
– staff of Commonwealth , a Catholic magazine
– assistant editor of the United States Information Service (USIS) – managing editor of the Sunday Times Magazine
– editor of Comment
– managing editor of the Hong Kong-based Asia Magazine
– information officer for the Colombo Plan Bureau in Sri lanka
– publisher and editor of Solidarity , a monthly magazine on current affairs, ideas and the arts
– writer-in-residence at the National University of Singapore
– visiting research scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
– professorial lecturer, De La Salle University,

Achievements/Awards
– works have been translated into several languages: Russian, Latvian, Ukranian, Dutch, Indonesian, and Ilocano
– won three first-prize awards in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for the short stories, “The God Stealer,” 1959; “Waywaya,” 1979; and “Arbol de Fuego” (Firetree), 1980
– Palanca grand prize for his novel Mass , 1981
– second prize for his essay “A Scenario for Philippine Resistance,” 1979
– won the grand prize in the CCP Literary contests for the novel Tree , 1979
– three first-prize awards from the National Press Club, 1957, 1961 and 1962
– Fernando Ma. Guerrero Memorial Foundation Award for Literature from UST
– the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Tree
– the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from the city government of Manila
– the Tawid Award for Cultural Nationalism from the Ilocano Heritage Foundation
– the Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism,literature, and creative communication arts
– received the Smilth-Mundt Leader Grant, 1955
– two Asian Foundation grants, 1955 and 1960
– the Asian and Pacific Council fellowship, 1971
– the Outstanding Alumnus Award from UST, 1974
– national Artist for Literature in 2001

Contribution
– gives pride to the country for His writings have also appeared in literary journals and anthologies all over Asia and in American and German publications
– He founded the Philippine chapter of the PE international organization
– set up the Solidaridad Bookshop cum publishing firm and a shortlived art gallery in Ermita,Manila

Novels
– The Chief Mourner , 1953,The Pretenders in 1962, My Brother, My Executioner , 1979; Mass , 1982; Po-on , 1984;Ermita , 1988; and Viajero (Traveller), 1993

Short Story Collection
– The God Stealer and Other Stories , 1968; Selected Works , 1977; Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short Stories , 1980; and Platinum: Ten Filipino Stories and Olvidon and Other Stories , 1988A

TITLE: The Graduation
AUTHOR: Francisco Sionil Jose
F. Sionil José or in full Francisco Sionil José (born December 3, 1924) is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His
novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society REGION: I (Ilocus)

SETTING: In a Province, In Rosales, Pangasinan
PLOT:
Exposition
There was a boy who fell in love w/ the girl named Teresita. Complication
Boy is asked by his father when he want to leave the province. And his father have decided that his son will leave tomorrow. Climax
A night before he left, he went to Teresita house to say goodbye and asked her if they can write w/ each other but then Teresita refuses. Denouement
He left his hometown and Teresita and her family move to another place due to their land was sold. Conclusion
They did not end up with each other.