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                    [ArticleID] => 835221
                    [Title] => Decade
                    [Summary] => 

It’s been 10 years since the death of Franz Arcellana, who was named National Artist for Literature in 1990 by President Cory Aquino.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136244 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 754658 [Title] => Through my dark glasses [Summary] =>

This must be one of the hardest things, having to write the introduction to this collection of column pieces, book introductions, essays and speeches, interviews, written and spoken during a lifetime devoted to the word and whatever its ramifications.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136244 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351691 [Title] => F. Arcellana grandson leads young players / Makk, Hila in recitals [Summary] => The mini-concert of 15-year old Liam Arcellana Hertzsprung was a tribute to his late grandfather, National Artist for Literature Francisco Arcellana.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227416 [Title] => Exhibit, Artists for Literature [Summary] => The voice on the phone sounded vaguely familiar, and wanted to know if we had any books by the late writer Francisco Arcellana or other stuff to lend to an exhibit at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in Intramuros, featuring the 12 National Artists for Literature.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196649 [Title] => Essential anthologies [Summary] => Launched last Saturday at PowerBooks Makati was The Essential Arcellana, edited by Alberto S. Florentino, and published by De La Salle University Press, Inc. Years in the making – as it is often said, but which actuallly applies to the gestation this book went through – the personal anthology celebrates the trans-genre works of our late beloved National Artist for Literature. [DatePublished] => 2003-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 189762 [Title] => Penultimo adios [Summary] => The self-ex-iled play-wright Alberto Florentino writes every once in a while from somewhere in the great United States, mostly on things literary or otherwise, not the least of which is the book he put together for De La Salle University Press, The Essential Arcellana by Francisco Arcellana, the National Artist who passed away in August.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 179834 [Title] => Brave new poetry [Summary] => How our poetry continues to flourish. Three recently released collections bear us out on this claim.

At the risk of committing literary incest, which we’re prone to do anyway when conducting critical reviews in this ingrown toenail that is Imperial Metro Manila, here we extol titles credited to three close friends in and well beyond our mutually backslapping writing community.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177351 [Title] => Requiem for 3 [Summary] => Francisco "Franz" Arcellana. The bereaved never cease to mourn the death of a loved one or a friend, and though Francisco "Franz" Arcellana joined the "Innumerable Caravan" sometime ago, the void he has left continues to be felt by his family and friends, particularly by his peers who have written reams of copy on him or delivered countless eulogies.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 171694 [Title] => Trilogy of the Titans [Summary] => Only Nick Joaquin could have paid adequate tribute to Franz Arcellana. If the situation were reversed, I’m sure Franz would have done the same. They were equals.

Together with Jose Garcia Villa, they were the titans of 20th century Philippine literature in English. They wrote–they lived, they were–like no other, writers non pareil; nobody else even came close.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135045 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632939 [AuthorName] => NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 170911 [Title] => Farewell to Franz [Summary] => I hadn’t planned on sending in a column this week because of a lingering bout with the flu, but the death of National Artist Francisco Arcellana last Thursday quickly roused me out of my stupor. It was sad news, very sad news, but something his family and friends had been expecting to come sooner than later, given the rapid deterioration of Franz’s condition. [DatePublished] => 2002-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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