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Paula Carolina Guevara Santos Malay (April 4, 1916 - December 24, 1993), [1] often nicknamed "Ayi", [2] was a Filipino writer and human rights advocate best known for her years of resistance against the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos, [3] and for various works of which "Nasa Puso ang Amerika," a Filipino language translation of Carlos Bulosan's America is in the Heart. [4]
Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in the Philippines in Binalonan, Pangasinan.There is considerable debate around his actual birth date, as he himself used several dates. 1911 is generally considered to be the most reliable answer, based on his baptismal records, but according to the Lorenzo Duyanen Sampayan, his childhood playmate and nephew, Bulosan was born on November 2, 1913.
Bulosan continues his activism through irony in his novel. “Behind the triumphant invocation of a mythical 'America' linger the unforgettable images of violence, panicked escape, horrible mutilation, and death in Bulosan's works”. [11] Throughout his novel, Bulosan mentions the death and violence that is inflicted upon Filipino immigrants.
One of the most popular authors of Ilocano ancestry abroad was the late Carlos Bulosan, a California immigrant born to Ilokano parents in Pangasinan. And currently, the most internationally translated Filipino author is an Ilokano from Rosales, Pangasinan —Francisco Sionil Jose, popularly known as F. Sionil Jose .
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Binalonan figures prominently in the novel America is in the Heart by Filipino-American writer Carlos Bulosan, who was born in Binalonan. The first part of the semi-autobiographical novel features the struggles of Allos, the novel's main character, as he grows up as the son of a peasant farmer in Binalonan.
Han’s mother, Jin Han, was on the flight with her and is also presumed dead. She was a "wonderful, pleasant, polite" member, he said. "Never a discouraging word," he said.