Nicomedes "Nick" Marquez Joaquin

Pen Name: “Quijano de Manila” (“Manila Old-Timer”)

born May 4, 1917, Paco, Manila

died April 29, 2004, San Juan

The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961), A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966), and The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on History as Three Generations (1983) 

National Artist for Literature in 1976