Amador biography daguio

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, inom 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

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I have found it a bit difficult to find information on Amador T. Daguio, best known in this blog as the author of the story "Wedding Dance".  I recently discovered that the page (a page in the National Commission for Culture and the Arts site) I linked to for information on Mr. Daguio is no longer working.  I found the same article, but the link address is now different.  I will reference directly the NCCA article by Gemino Abad entitled "Amador T. Daguio: A Turning-point in Filipinio Poetry from English".

Mr. Daguio was a writer.  He was a poet who wrote pieces like "To Those of Other Lands", "The Hordes", "Mountain People", and "Man of Earth".  As stated in his article's title, Dr. Abad describes Mr. Daguio's poetry as a "turning-point in Filipino verses from English" because "the verse...is English but the poetry...is Filipino".  But Mr. Daguio also writes fiction and the "Wedding Dance" is one of his most popular pieces.  He translates li