Augurio Marañon Abeto (January 21, 1904 – January 27, 1977) was an

essayist An essay ( ) is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a Letter (message), letter, a term paper, paper, an article (publishing), article, a pamphlet, and a s ...

in Hiligaynon during the Golden Age of Hiligaynon Literature. He was also a lawyer and politician, serving as a Municipal President (modern equivalent to Mayor) during 1940s and the representative for

Negros Occidental Negros Occidental (; ), officially the Province of Negros Occidental (; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Negros, Negros Island. Its capital is the city of Bacolod, of which it is geographically s ...

's 3rd district from 1949 to 1953. He is the composer of the

Visayan Visayans ( Cebuano: ''mga Bisayà'' ) are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, to the southernmost islands south of Luzon, and to a significant portion of Mindanao. They are composed of numerous di ...

song, Dalawidaw.

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Visayan writers Hiligaynon people 20th-century Filipino writers 20th-century Filipino lawyers 1904 births 1977 deaths Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Negros Occidental Liberal Party (Philippines) politicians {{Philippines-writer-stub