Rogelio R. Sikat (1940-1997) is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. He was born to Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez on June 26, 1940 in Alua, San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He is the sixth of eight children. Sicat graduated with a B.Litt. in Journalism from the
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and an M.A. in Filipino from the
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.
Rogelio R. Sikat (1940-1997) is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. He was born to Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez on June 26, 1940 in Alua, San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He is the sixth of eight children. Sicat graduated with a B.Litt. in Journalism from the
University of Santo TomasThe Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines , is a private Roman Catholic university run by the Order of Preachers in Manila. Founded on April 28, 1611 by archbishop of Manila Miguel de Benavides, it has the oldest extant university charter in the...
and an M.A. in Filipino from the
University of the PhilippinesThe ' is the national university of the Philippines. Founded in 1908 through Act No...
.
Sikat received numerous literary prizes but he was particularly remembered for "Impeng Negro", his 1962 Palanca awardwinning short fiction in
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). Many of his ground-breaking stories first appeared in
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, a long-running magazine with a particularly strong Tagalog literary section. A posthumous appreciation of Sicat's achievements were highlighted by award-winning writer Lilia Quindoza-Santiago in Living and Dying as a Writer." The article appeared in Pen & Ink III.
Sikat was University Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Letters,
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in Diliman from 1991 to 1994. U.P. College of Mass Communication Professor Angelito Tiongson worked on a feature film Isang Munting Lupa based on Sicat's Tata Selo, another prizewinning story . Playwright and film/theater director
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, on the other hand, created a short film narrative based on "Impeng Negro" in 1999. Sikat was posthumously awarded the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Award for Translation in 1998.
His works
- Impeng Negro
- Moses, Moses