E. San Juan Jr., Date of Birth

E. San Juan Jr.

filipino writer

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1938

Profession: cultural critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Epifanio San Juan Jr., also known as E.
San Juan Jr.
(born December 29, 1938) , at Sta.
Cruz, Manila, Philippines), is a known Filipino American literary academic, Tagalog writer, Filipino poet, civic intellectual, activist, writer, essayist, video/film maker, editor, and poet whose works related to the Filipino Diaspora in English and Filipino writings have been translated into German, Russian, French, Italian, and Chinese.
As an author of books on race and cultural studies, he was a "major influence on the academic world".
He was the director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Storrs, Connecticut in the United States.
In 1999, San Juan received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines because of his contributions to Filipino and Filipino American Studies.