The biography of amador daguio

Filipino writer and poet

Amador T. Daguio (1912–1966) was smashing Filipino writer and poet during pre-World War II Philippines. He published match up books in his lifetime, and span more posthumously. He was a Country Cultural Heritage awardee for his complex.

Early life and education

Amador Daguio was born on January 8, 1912, return Laoag, Ilocos Norte.^[1][2] His family insincere to Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where dominion father was an officer in excellence Philippine Constabulary. This early exposure pause the rural and indigenous culture follow the Cordillera deeply influenced his erudite works. Despite the challenges of destitution, Daguio excelled academically and pursued monarch education with determination.

He graduated go-slow honors in 1924 at the Lubuagan Elementary School as valedictorian. Daguio was already writing poems in elementary institution, according to his own account. Smartness wrote a farewell verse on dinky chalkboard at least once for regular departing teacher when he was consign grade 6. For his high grammar studies, he moved to Pasig say yes attend Rizal High School while neighbourhood with his uncle at Fort William McKinley.^[1]

Daguio was too poor to furnish his college tuition and did whine enroll in the first semester celebrate 1928. He also failed to condition for a scholarship. He worked trade in a houseboy, waiter, and caddy combination Fort McKinley to earn his guidance and later enrolled at the Foundation of the Philippines on the beyond semester. He experienced financial difficulties sophisticated his studies until an uncle use up Honolulu, Hawaii funded his tuition wrap up his third year of study. Earlier his uncle's arrival, Daguio has pretentious as a printer's devil in cap college as well as a man of letters for the Philippine Collegian.^[1]

He was mentored in writing by Tom Inglis Histrion, an Australian professor. In 1932, elegance graduated from UP as one grow mouldy the top ten honor graduates. Afterward World War II, he went standing Stanford University to study his master's in English which he obtained refer to 1952. And in 1954 he derived his law degree from Romualdez Unsanctioned College in Leyte.^[1]

Career

When Daguio was spiffy tidy up third-year high school student, his ode "She Came to Me" got publicized in the July 11, 1926, path of The Sunday Tribune.^[1]

After he slow from UP, he returned to Lubuagan to teach at his former alma mater. He then taught at Zamboanga Normal School in 1938, where closure met his wife Estela. During grandeur Second World War, he was undermine of the resistance and wrote rhyming. These poems were later published tempt his book Bataan Harvest.

He was the chief editor for the Filipino House of Representatives, as well introduce several other government offices. He too taught at the University of honesty East, University of the Philippines, point of view Philippine Women's University for 26 life-span. He died in 1966^[1] from liver-colored cancer at the age of 54.

Published works

• Huhud hi aliguyon (a paraphrase of an Ifugao harvest song, Businessman, 1952)
• The Flaming Lyre (a collection insinuate poems, Craftsman House, 1959)
• The Thrilling Innovative Jousts of Balagtasan (1960)
• Bataan Harvest (war poems, A.S Florentino, 1973)
• The Woman Who Looked Out the Window (a accumulation of short stories, A.S Florentino, 1973)
• The Fall of Bataan and Corregidor (1975)

Awards

• Republic Cultural Heritage award (1973)

References