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Amador Daguio

Filipino writer and poet

Amador T Daguio

Born(1912-01-08)January 8, 1912
Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippine Islands
DiedApril 26, 1966(1966-04-26) (aged 54)
Philippine General Hospital, Manila
Resting placeManila Memorial Park, Paranaque
Occupation
LanguageEnglish
NationalityFilipino
EducationBachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Master of Arts in English, Bachelor of Laws
Alma materUniversity of the Philippines
Stanford University
Romualdez Law College
Notable worksWedding Dance, The Flaming Lyre, Man of Earth, Hudhud Hi Aliguyon
Notable awardsRepublic Cultural Heritage Award
SpouseEstela Fermin Daguio
ChildrenDaniel F Daguio, Jenny Daguio Balea, Francis Rey Daguio, Malinda Daguio Felix
RelativesFather-Sixto Daguio Mother-Magdalena Taguinod Daguio

Amador T. Daguio (1912–1966) was a Filipino writer and poet during pre-World War II Philippines. He published two books in his lifetime, and three more posthumously. He was a Republic Cultural Heritage awardee for his works.

Early life and ed

Amador T. Daguio was a poet, novelist and teacher during the pre-war. He was best known for his fictions and poems. He had published two volumes of poetry, “Bataan Harvest” and “The Flaming Lyre”. He served as chief editor for the Philippine House of Representatives before he died in 1966.

Daguio was born 8 January 1912 in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, but grew up in Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where his father, an officer in the Philippine Constabulary, was assigned. He was class valedictorian in 1924 at the Lubuagan Elementary School. Then he stayed with his uncle at Fort William McKinley to study at Rizal High School in Pasig. Those four years in high school were, according to Daguio, the most critical in his life. «I spent them literally in poverty, extreme loneliness, and adolescent pains …In my loneliness, I began to compose verses in earnest.”8 He was in third year high when he broke into print in a national weekly, The Sunday Tribune Magazine (11 July 1926), with a poem, “She Came to Me.” He was going to be valedictorian or salutatorian, but his teacher

Biography of Amador Daguio

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Amador T. Daguio was a poet, novelist and a teacher during the prewar. He was best known for his fictions and poems. He had published two volumes of poetry, "Bataan Harvest" and "The Flaming Lyre". He served as chief editor for the Philippine House of Representatives before he died in 1966.

He was born on January 8, 1912 in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, but grew up in Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where his father, an officer in the Philippine Constabulary, was assigned. He was class valedictorian in 1924 at the Lubuagan Elementary School. Then he stayed with his uncle at Fort William McKinley to study at Rizal High School in Pasig. Those four years in high school were, according to Daguio, the most critical in his life. "I spent them literally in poverty, extreme loneliness, and adolescent pains…"

In 1952, he obtained his M.A. in English at Stanford U. as a Fulbright scholar. His thesis was a study and translation of Hudhud hi Aliguyon (Ifugao Harvest Song). In 1954, he obtained his Law degree from Romualdez Law College in Leyte. Dagui

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