Francisco Alvarado

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Francisco Alvarado is a noted playwright of zarzuela in Lineyte-Samarnon (Waray). He was a member and literary luminary of the Sanghiran san Binisaya organization which was founded in 1909 to cultivate the Waray language.

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Poetry

Anthologies

Panulaan At Dulaang Leytenhon-Samarnon
Jaime Biron Polo, Editor and translator
Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1994

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