# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/f-sionil-jose
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:35:33.398Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/f-sionil-jose"
name: "F. Sionil José"
slug: "f-sionil-jose"
description: "Francisco Sionil José was a Filipino writer who was one of the most widely read in the English language. A National Artist of the Philippines for Literature, which was bestowed upon him in 2001, José's novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. His works—written in English—have been translated into 28 languages, including Korean, Indonesian, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch. He was often considered the leading Filipino candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature."
tagline: "Philippine writer (1924–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr._Francisco_Sionil_Jose%2C_National_Artist_for_Literature.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-12-03"
deathDate: "2022-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.178571428571428
  historical:           17.76702933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump