Natalio bacalso biography examples

The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, lived in, are current residents of, or are closely associated with the province of Cebu, Philippines (including from highly urbanized cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu):

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Literature

• Antonio Abad - a poet, fictionist, playwright and essayist (Barili)
• Gémino Abad - an educator, writer, and literary critic. He is a National Artist of the Philippines for Literature (Barili)
• Martin Abellana – Visayan author (Cebu City)
• Onofre Abellanosa - writer of short stories and plays (Cebu City)
• Victorina A. Abellanosa - was a Cebuano dramatist who is specialized in writing plays particularly zarzuelas (Cebu City)
• Ramón D. Abellanosa - political journalist, minor politician, businessman, and writer. He was best known for his plays (Cebu City)
• Temistokles Adlawan - a contemporary Cebuano poet and short story writer who often writes with irreverent humor usually associated with Cebuano folk (Cebu City)
• Ruperto Alaura - is a Cebuano writer. He was a LUDABI prize winner in (Cebu City)
• Sinforosa Alcordo - fiction writer during the pre-war era (Cebu City)
• Jacinto Alcos - is a pre-Second World War Cebuano writer (Cebu City)
• Epifanio Alfafara - writer in the Cebuano language of political and philosophical articles. He used Isco Anino as a pen name (Carcar City)
• Sergio Alfafara - was a Filipino Cebuano Visayan writer. A parish priest, he published, authored and translated religious and missal texts in Cebuano. He published a grammar of Cebuano known as Sugboanon nga Gramatika. His pennames included Napoleon Alferez (Carcar City)
• Estrella Alfon - an author who wrote in English (Cebu City)
• Potenciano Aliño - a writer, translator, and revolutionary (Talisay City)
• Cora Almerino - is a Cebuano Visayan writer.[1] Her poems were included in Sinug-ang: A Cebuano trio published by Women in Literary Arts in (Cebu City)
• Tomas N. Alonso - is a well-known Cebuano Visayan w

The Rise of Cebuano Media in the Midth Century Erlinda Kintanar-Alburo The role of media shortly before the world war and the two decades after that, was to fill in the gaps in our parents’ lives needing color, substance and affirmation of community. The golden age of Cebuano cinema from the early 50s to the mids was ushered in by the rise of the Cebuano language as medium of popular culture. I would like to explore in this paper the dynamics among radio, the press and cinema in Cebu within this period and show how each fed into the other. Eventually, while radio and the press thrived after the golden age, cinema took backstage to reemerge now and then with little of the liveliness it used to have. In this paper, too, I’d like to introduce a man whose career reflects the developments in Cebuano media during his time, the writer Gregorio M. Mercado. Cebuano in “Peacetime” The American period which our parents often call “peacetime” introduced changes into the porous Filipino culture that was quick to absorb trends in social and cultural forms from the new colonizer. At the center of this influence was the English language, whose importance grew together with the institutions of mass education and the attending press as well as radio and film. The rise of Cebuano as language was a reaction to the growing dominance of English in the official world. The growth of English then ironically boosted the growth of Cebuano. In the first decades of the 20th century, when Spanish had lost its prestige and English was still being learned, the local languages held sway, but the gradual mastery of English threatened such position. Nationalists were quick to launch campaigns that were carried on in the local papers and boosted by the formation of language academies in many parts of the country. For example, the Tagalogs had the “Samahan ng Mananagalog,” the Leyteños-Samareños had the “Sanghiran san Binisaya,” and the Cebuanos had th

Filipino Visayan newspaperman, filmmaker, Constitutional Convention delegate and assemblyman

Natalio Bacus Bacalso (December 1, – March 30, ) was a Filipino writer, newspaperman, radio broadcaster, filmmaker, Constitutional Convention delegate in representing Cebu's 2nd district, and opposition assemblyman to the Interim Batasang Pambansa in The Natalio Bacalso Avenue is named after him. On June 13, , The Freeman recognized him as one of the Top Cebuanos.

Early life

He was born in Inayawan, Cebu, which at the time of his birth in , was part of Pardo.

Literature and journalism

Bacalso edited the Cebuano periodicals Bisaya from to and Manila-printed periodical Lamdag of Malayan Publishing Company (renamed Filipinas Publishing Company). He was the founder of Tabunon, a Manila-printed periodical published by Mariano Jesus Cuenco. Known with his pseudonym "Talyux", he published Cadena de Amor, a collection of stories, together with Fausto Dugenio.

In , Bacalso together with Vicente del Rosario was sued for libel filed separately by then Cebu municipal councilor Marcos Morelos and Mayor Dr. Luis Espina. The complaint was about an article Bacalso published alleging Espina and Morelos for various wrongdoings. The Supreme Court, upon the appeal by Morelos whose complaint in the local court was dismissed, reversed the ruling and sent it back to the local court.

Radio

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