Jose Dalisay Jr.

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jose Dalisay Jr.
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jan 15, 1954(1954-01-15)
Age	70
Birthplace	Romblon
Country	Philippines
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jose Dalisay Jr. Biography

Jose Dalisay Jr. is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on January 15, 1954 in Romblon, Philippines. Dalisay was born in Romblon in the year 1954. He finished his primary schooling in La Salle Green Hills, Philippines in 1966 . He then completed continued his education through the Philippine Science High School in 1970. He quit school to become an editor for a newspaper. Additionally, Dalisay wrote scripts for Lino Brocka who is one of the National Artist of the Philippines for the theater and Film. Dalisay returned to college and was awarded a B.A. English (Imaginative writing) degree, also known as cum laude at The University of the Philippines in 1984. He then earned an M.F.A. at his alma mater, the University of Michigan in 1988 and received a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in 1991 as an Fulbright scholar.

Dalisay has been awarded the record-breaking 16 Palanca Awards in five genres. If he has won at least five First Prize awards, he was inducted into the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2000. He also has won five Cultural Center of the Philippines awards for his playwriting, in addition, FAMAS, URIAN, Star and Catholic Mass Media awards and the citations in his screenplays. He was also chair of his role in the 1992 ASEAN Writers Conference/Workshop, in Penang, Malaysia. He was recognized as among The Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of 1993 , for his writing talent. The year 2005 was the time he won the Premio Cervara di Roma in Italy for his extensive promotion of Philippine literature in the world. His novel, Soledad’s Sister was nominated for the first Man Asian Literary Prize in Hong Kong.

He has received Hawthornden Castle, British Council, David T.K. Wong, Rockefeller (Bellagio), and Civitella Ranieri fellowships, and has held the Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair at the Ateneo de Manila University; and the Jose Joya, Jorge Bocobo, and Elpidio Quirino professorial chairs at U.P. Diliman. He has lectured on Philippine culture and politics at the University of Michigan, University of Auckland, Australian National University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, St. Norbert College (Wisconsin, U.S.), University of East Anglia, University of Rome, London School of Economics, and the University of California, San Diego, where he was named Pacific Leadership Fellow in 2015..

In 2017, the One UP-Jose Yap Dalisay Jr. Professorial Chair in Creative Writing was endowed in his honor by an anonymous donor at the University of the Philippines.

Dalisay has also been employed as an editor professional. He was Chief Editor of the ten-volume Kasaysayan: The Stories of the Filipino People (Manila Asia Publishing/Reader’s Digest Asian [1 1998). His clients include The Asian Development Bank, the Ayala Foundation, SGV & Co. and SGV & Co., the National Economic and Development Authority as well as The Office of the (Philippine) President as well as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippine Airlines, and the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation, among others.

Jose Dalisay Jr. Net Worth

Jose Dalisay Jr. is one of the richest Writer from Philippines. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jose Dalisay Jr. 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (born on January 15, 1954) is a Filipino writer from the Philippines. He has won many prizes and awards for fiction drama, poetry screenwriting, non-fiction, and screenwriting including the 16 Palanca Awards.

Dalisay has written more than thirty books in the span of 1984. Six of these books have been awarded National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle. The year 1998 was the first time Dalisay was named on the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Centennial Honors List as one of the 100 most successful Filipino performers of the last century. His numerous works include Oldtimer and Other Stories (Asphodel 1984; U.P. Press 2003); Sarcophagus and Other Stories (U.P. Press, 1992); Killing Time in a Warm Place (Anvil, 1992); Madilim ang Gabi sa Laot at Iba Pang mga Dula ng Ligaw na Pag-Ibig (U.P. Press 1993); Penmanship and Other Stories (Cacho 1995); The Island (Ayala Foundation 1997); Pagsabog ng Liwanag/Aninag, Anino (U.P. Press 1996); Mac Malicsi, TNT/Ang Butihing Babae ng Tumog (U.P. Press 1997); The Lavas: A Filipino Family (Anvil, 1999) A.P. Press, 1999; the Best of Barfly (Anvil, 1997) (Anvil, 1997); the Filipino Flag (Inquirer Publications, 2004) and Man Overboard (Milflores 2005); Journeys with Light A Vision by Jaime Zobel (Ayala Foundation 2005) The Select Stories (U.P. Press 2005) and “The Knowing Is in the Writing: Notes on the Practice of Fiction” (U.P. Press, 2006).

After serving for three years as English and Comparative Literature Department Chair, Dalisay assumed the post of Vice President for Public Affairs of the U.P. System from May 2003 to February 2005; he returned to the post in February 2017 and retired in January 2019. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of English and creative writing at the College of Arts and Letters, U.P. Diliman, where he also coordinated the creative writing program. He was Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing from 2008 to 2017. Aside from his weekly Arts & Culture column for the Philippine Star, he wrote political and social commentary for the newsmagazine Newsbreak and the San Francisco-based Filipinas magazine.

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Facts & Trivia

Jose Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Philippines. Jose Dalisay Jr. celebrates birthday on January 15 of every year.