- Ismael mallari
One of the early Filipino Writers in English . More than anything else , he was a consummate essayist. In his The Filipino IN English: A Critical Study with Anthology of Representative Essays(1912-1941), Prof. Leopoldo Yabes of the University of the Philippines says: “While he (Mallari) could not be ranked among th abler critics of the older school, he was conceded by a number of informed persons to be the best writer on problems of Architecture and city planning. He wrote on Architecture with the understanding and skill of a truly artistic temperament.” Another noted literature, Puro Santillan Castrence, has this to say “One of the country’s most reliable essayist in English . . . Mallari’s forte in his essays was in his use of simple words neatly and economically. He wrote poems, too . . .” From his hometown Malabon in Rizal province, Mallari went to the Philippine Normal School in Manila, then the University of Wisconsin (USA) for further studies in English, Education and Library Science. For his accomplishments, Mallari was included in the Pan-Pacific Who’s Who and the Who’s Who library Science.
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