Stevan Javellana

Stevan Javellana (1918-1977) was a Filipino novelist and short-story writer in the English language. He is also known as Esteban Javellana. [http://www.palhbooks.com/javellana.htm Florentino, Alberto and Francisco Arcellana, Without Seeing the Dawn: A Review ("Javellana: Did He Die Without Seeing the Dawn? - The Odyssey of a Young Writer’s First and Only Novel Without Seeing the Dawn"), PALH Book Reviews (undated)] , retrieved on: June 16, 2007]

Biography

Javellana was born in 1918 in San Mateo, Rizal. He fought as a guerrilla during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. After World War II, he graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1948.List of Graduates of the UP College of Law, 1999 Souvenir Program of the Silver Jubilarians] He stayed in the United States afterwards but he died in the Visayas in 1977 at the age of 59.

Writing career

Javellana was the author of a best-selling war novel in the United States (U.S.) and Manila, "Without Seeing the Dawn", published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston in 1947. His short stories were published in the Manila Times Magazine in the 1950s, among which are "Two Tickets to Manila", "The Sin of Father Anselmo", "Sleeping Tablets", "The Fifth Man", "The Tree of Peace" and "Transition".

"Without Seeing the Dawn" is his only novel.

References

ee also

*Javellana, a family from the Philippines.
*Philippine literature in English
*Literature of the Philippines
*Philippine English