Alejandro Roces
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| Chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board | |
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| Preceded by | Nicanor Tiongson |
| Succeeded by | Marilen Ysmael-Dinglasan |
| 35th Secretary of Education | |
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| President | Diosdado Macapagal |
| Preceded by | Jose Tuason |
| Succeeded by | Carlos P. Romulo |
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| SpouseScript error: No such module "Detect singular". | Irene Yorston Viola |
| ParentScript error: No such module "Detect singular". | Rafael Roces and Inocencia Baptista-Reyes |
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Alejandro Reyes Roces, Sr. (13 July 1924 – 23 May 2011) was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as Secretary of Education from 1962 to 1965, during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.
Noted for his short stories,[1] the Manila-born Roces was married to Irene Yorston Viola (granddaughter of Maximo Viola), with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth Roces-Pedrosa.
He attended elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University, before moving to the University of Arizona and then Arizona State University for his tertiary education. He graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts (B.F.A.), and attained his M.A. from the Far Eastern University back in the Philippines.[2] He has since received honorary doctorates from Toyo University,[3] Baguio's St. Louis University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and the Ateneo de Manila University. Roces was a captain in the Marking's Guerilla during World War II and a columnist in Philippine dailies such as the Manila Chronicle and the Manila Times. He was previously President of the Manila Bulletin and of the CAP College Foundation.
In 2001, Roces was appointed as Chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). Roces also became a member of the Board of Trustees of GSIS (Government Service Insurance System) and maintained a column in the Philippine Star called Roses and Thorns.
Career
During his freshman year in the University of Arizona, Roces won Best Short Story for "We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers". Another of his stories, "My Brother's Peculiar Chicken", was listed as Martha Foley's Best American Stories among the most distinctive for years 1958 and 1951. Roces also published books such as Of Cocks and Kites and (1959) Fiesta (1980). He collected his short stories in the book Something to Crow About (2005). Of Cocks and Kites earned him the reputation as the country's best writer of humorous stories. It also contained the widely anthologized piece "My Brother's Peculiar Chicken". Fiesta, is a book of essays, featuring folk festivals such as Ermita's Bota Flores, Aklan's Ati-atihan, and Naga's Peñafrancia.
The book Something to Crow About was adapted into a stage musical, which is considered the first Filipino zarzuela in English. The modern zarzuela tells the story of a poor cockfighter named Kiko who, to his wife's chagrin, pays more attention to the roosters than to her. Kiko's brother Leandro competes with Golem, the son of a wealthy and powerful man, over the affections of a beautiful woman named Luningning. They try to resolve this conflict through a cockfight. Something to Crow About won the Aliw Award for Best Musical and Best Director for a Musical Production. It also had a run off-Broadway at the La Mama Theatre in New York.
Through the years, Roces has won numerous awards, including the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, the Diwa ng Lahi Award, the Tanging Parangal of the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, and the Rizal Pro Patria Award. He was finally bestowed the honor as National Artist of Literature on 25 June 2003.
When once asked for a piece of advice on becoming a famous literary figure Roces said, "You cannot be a great writer; first, you have to be a good person".[4]
In 1994, Roces was the chair of the Board of Jurors for the 1994 Metro Manila Film Festival, in which he and the board made the unprecedented decision not to award any film entry that year six of the major awards, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director.[5]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Joseph A. Galdon (1972). Philippine Fiction: Essays from Philippine Studies, 1953-1972. Ateneo de Manila at the University Press.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Honorary Doctors | Toyo University". www.toyo.ac.jp (in 日本語). Archived from the original on 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ^ Rocesfamily.com
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roxas, Cip S. (December 31, 1994). "Goodbye, 1994". Manila Standard. Kamahalan Publishing Corp. p. 11. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
External links
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- National Artist for Literature Alejandro R. Roces
- The Roces Family Around the World
- "Alejandro 'Anding' Roces"
- "NCAA to stage original zarzuela for UNESCO Theatre Congress"
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