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From the very beginning of his career, he always and constantly visualized his characters moving and acting on the stage.
He wrote his first complete one-act play, No Todo Es Risa, while in his second year high school. Tiyuhin niya ang makatang si Fernando Ma. Guerrero na itinuturing na prinsipe ng lirikong tula sa Español. When he was around 12 or 13, she noticed him writing on scraps of paper, then hiding them inside his cabinet drawer.
One day, his aunt called up his first cousin, Evangelina, who at that time was already a well-known poet, as her father Fernando was.
Manuel S. Guerrero at Eliza Ocampo. He was nearly seven when his father died. Even with their tuition exempt (Php60.00 per semester), they still needed money to purchase their textbooks.
Guerrero completed his first play, the one-act "No Todo Es Risa," during his second year of high school. Ginawaran siya ng Gawad Rizal Pro-Patria (1961),Gawad Araw ng Maynila (1969), at ng Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1972).
Nagmula sa angkang Guererro na prominente sa larangan ng kultura sa Filipinas, ipinanganak siya noong 22 Enero 1911 kinaDr.
He wrote his first play at the age of 14 in Spanish, entitled, "No Todo Es Risa." This play was produced at the Ateneo de Manila University when he was 15.
Guerrero worked as a reporter and proofreader for La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper, and as a drama critic for the Manila Tribune. When he was 12 or 13 she noticed him writing on scraps of paper and then hiding them inside his cabinet drawer.
After his aunt's death, Guerrero wrote some of his most popular comedies, "Movie Artists," "Basketball Fight," and "Wanted: A Chaperone." He also made her the basis for the principal characters in "Forever" (Maria Teresa) and "Frustrations" (Maria Araceli).
His plays have been the subject so far of seven Master of Arts theses in English literature.
Guerrero has been the recipient of three national awards: the Rizal Pro-Patria Award (1961), the Araw ng Maynila Award (1969), and the Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1972)
Guerrero has the unique distinction of being the first Filipino who has had a theater named after him in his own lifetime: The Wilfrido Ma.
Guerrero Theater of the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
Upon his death in May 1995, his colleagues in the theater and the academe drafted a resolution declaring him National Artist. He studied at the Ateneo de Manila University, at the University of the Philippines, and briefly, at Columbia University.
Don Alejandro readily agreed, and he paid for his tuition for his last two years in high school.
Why He Started Writing
His favorite aunt, Maria Araceli, discovered his writing ability. Once a month, he used to accompany his mother to the attorney’s office to render an account of efery centavo spent.
To be able to study high school in Ateneo in Intramuros, he and his brothers, Edmundo, Lorenzo, Manuel became choristers.
This emboldened him to approach Don Alejandro Roces, Sr., a patient of his father and husband of a close friend of his mother. His father, Manuel Severino Guerrero, was renowned for having a “clinical eye” which could diagnose illness just by studying a person’s outside appearance. He showed it to the late Father Juan Trinidad, S.J. (who at that time was translating the Bible into Tagalog) and he liked it.
As a result, the young Wilfrido enjoyed a comfortable upbringing along with his brothers Renato, Edmundo, Lorenzo, and Manuel. He wrote his first play at age 14, and his play in Spanish, "No Todo Es Risa", was produced at the Ateneo when he was 15.
He was later a reporter and proofreader for La Vanguardia, and drama critic for the Manila Tribune.
When he reached third-year high school, being sick and fed up with having to hear daily Mass, he took the courage to go to Don Alejandro Roces, Sr., who had been one of his father’s patients and whose wife was a close friend of their mother.