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𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗝𝗢𝗔𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗡 (Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin) aka Quijano de Manila. b. Paco, Manila 4 May 1917. d. 29 Apr 2004. National Artist for literature. Fictionist, essayist, poet, playwright. He was fifth among the 10 children of Leocadio Joaquin, a lawyer and former officer in the Philippine-American War, and Salome Marquez, a public school teacher. He attended Paco Elementary School and Mapa High School in Intramuros, Manila, but dropped out after three years of secondary education. In 1936, he published his first poem, "To a Locker and a Lost Pack of Camels," in the Tribune, the pre-World War II Manila Times. Serafin Lanot, the Tribune's poetry editor, liked the poem very much and went to congratulate the poet when he came to collect his fee, but shy and elusive Joaquin ran away. At that time, the boy was a proofreader in the composing department of the T-V-T (Taliba-Vanguardia-Tribune).
Joaquin won three awards at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature: first prize for the short story "La Vidal," 1958, and for "Dona Jeronima," 1965; and for the three-act play The Beatas, 1976. His books that won National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle are the following: for biography, The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay in History as Three Generations, 1983, The World of Rafael Salas: Service and Management in the Global Village, 1987, Jaime Ongpin, the Enigma: The Profile of a Filipino as Manager, 1990, and La Orosa: The Dance-Drama That Is Leonor Goquingco, 1994; for art, The World of Damian Domingo: 19th Century Manila, co-written with Luciano P.R. Santiago, 1990: for essay, Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine Becoming, 1988; for translation, The Recto Valedictory, 1985, and Spiritual Register: The News Columns of Teodoro M. Kalaw in La Vanquardia, 1926-1927, 2001; and a special citation for the Quartet of the Tiger moon: Scenes from the People Power Apocalypse, 1986.
He received the South East Asian Wirters or S.E.A Write Award in 1980, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature, and creative communication in 1996, and the Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi from Ateneo de Manila University in 1997. Nick: A Portrait of the Artist Nick Joaquin, 2011, by Tony Joaquin is a biography. Updated by Om Narayan Velasco.
𝙏𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢: CCP encyclopedia of Philippine art Vol.XII : Philippine Literature. (1994). Manila : CCP.
