Dugo Sa Bukang-Liwaway (Bleeding Sun)

Rogelio R. Sicat left his hometown San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, in the 1950s to work on a degree in journalism at the University of Santo Tomas. After serving as a campus writer and literary editor of The Varsitarian, Sicat went on to become one of the greatest pioneers of Philippine fiction by deliberately choosing Filipino as the language of his prose, and by veering away from the concerns and conventions of the Western modernist writers. Sicat’s work, which rejuvenated Philippine literature’s tradition of social consciousness, first appeared in the Tagalog literary magazine Liwayway. Ma. Aurora L. Sicat is the second of Rogelio’s five children. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Filipino degree at the College of Arts and Letters in the University of the Philippines Diliman. She has worked for GMA Worldwide, Inc., as a freelance translator where she translated their Tagalog television programs and movie shows to English. She also ventured into freelance writing and copywriting but has now retired.