# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zoilo-galang
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:41.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zoilo-galang"
name: "Zoilo Galang"
slug: "zoilo-galang"
description: "Zoilo Mercado Galang was a Filipino writer from Pampanga. He is credited as one of the pioneering Filipino writers who worked with the English language. He is the author of the first Philippine novel written in the English language, A Child of Sorrow, published in 1921."
tagline: "Filipino author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zoilo_Mercado_Galang.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1895-07-27"
deathDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.46
  momentum:             16.08902333621435
  historical:           4.209324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "زويلو جالانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoilo_Galang"
    title: "Zoilo Galang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoilo_Galang"
    title: "Zoilo Galang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoilo_Galang"
    title: "Zoilo Galang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoilo_Galang"
    title: "Zoilo Galang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8073506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump