Amado Magcalas Yuzon (August 30, 1906 – January 17, 1979) was a Filipino academic, journalist, politician and writer.

Biography

Yuzon graduated from Pampanga High School San Fernando in 1925. He obtained a

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in Business Administration, Ll. M, and Litt. D. He was a member of the Philippine Bar Examination and professor at the

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and at Quezon College in

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. Among his edited journals are "Ing Catuliran" and "La Libertad". During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Yuzon was a minor government employee.Saulo, Alfredo B
Communism in the Philippines: An Introduction
Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1990. pp. 37, 178 From 1946 to 1949, Yuzon was member of the

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, where he represented Pampanga. He had been elected as a Democratic Alliance candidate. Yuzon's candidature had sparked controversy at the fourth national congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines, where Pampanga delegates had walked out in protest against the opposition of the politburo majority to Yuzon's candidature. Yuzon was however, once elected, barred from taking his seat in the parliament. In 1963, Yuzon founded the United Poets Laureate International, an international group for passionate poets from countries all over the world aiming to promote global peace, brotherhood, and understanding through poetry. It was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize by Filipino legislator Angel Macapagal. Amado Yuzon was first married to Oliva Almario Reyes; they had three sons. His second marriage to Fortunata Quiambao Aquino (daughter of Servillano Aquino and sister of Benigno "Igno" Aquino Sr.) produced four children: Virgilio, Maria Teresa, Maria Remedios, and Maria Lourdes. Maria Teresa died at the age of two.

Opus

Poetry collections

* ''Ding Capampangan'' (1940) * ''Ing Kakung Dampa'' (1944) * ''Poems for Screen Heroines'' (1949) * ''The Citizen's Poems'' (1956)

Essays

* ''Salitang paca-versu sinukuan at aliwa pa, declamaciones, leyendas ding sampanga'' (1933) * ''The Passion of Rizal, Poet and Martyr, and his "Postrer Adios" with Some Foreign Versions (1977)

Translations

*Translations of works by

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, and others.

Awards and honours

*Inclusion in the 1956 "Who's Who in America", the "International Who's Who in Poetry", and "The Authors and Writers Who's Who" *"most outstanding poet in 1957" by Central Luzon Affair *Poet Laureate of the Philippines in 1959 *Most Outstanding Man of Letters of the Philippines in 1962 by Filipino Press, Radio and Television Society *Nominated for the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature by Emeterio Barcelon y Barcelo-Soriano of Academia Filipina and Zhong Dingwen of The Chinese Poet Society, Taipei, Taiwan.Nomination archive – Amado Magcalas Yuzon
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, he was nominated once again by Emeterio Barcelon y Barcelo-Soriano only.

References

*http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~camiling/bio/yuzon.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Yuzon, Amado Magcalas 1906 births 1979 deaths Academic staff of Far Eastern University 20th-century Filipino lawyers Filipino male poets Kapampangan people Writers from Pampanga People from Guagua Academic staff of Manuel L. Quezon University 20th-century Filipino poets 20th-century Filipino male writers 20th-century Filipino journalists