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Alejandro R. Roces

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Alejandro R. Roces


Born
in Manila, Philippines
July 13, 1924

Died
May 23, 2011


Alejandro Reyes Roces was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as Secretary of Education from 1961 to 1965, during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.

Noted for his short stories, the Manila-born Roces was married to Irene Yorston Viola (granddaughter of Maximo Viola), with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth Roces-Pedrosa. Anding attended elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University, before moving to the Arizona State University for his tertiary education. He graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts and, not long after, attained his M.A. from Far Eastern University back in the Philippines.

He has since received honorary doctorates from Tokyo Univer
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The Best Philippine Short S...

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Philippine PEN Anthology of...

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Something to Crow About: Sh...

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Letters Between Rizal and F...

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Quezon: Paladin of Philippi...

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Looking Back in Anger

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Art in the Philippines

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