author
Engracio L. Valmonte
b. 1889
Known for the Tagalog novel Ang Mestisa, this early 20th-century Filipino writer is remembered through a small but lasting body of work that still circulates in digital libraries today.
1 Audiobook
Ang Mestisa. Ikalawang Bahagi (Second Volume)
by Engracio L. Valmonte
About the author
Engracio L. Valmonte was a Filipino novelist active in the early 20th century. Reliable biographical details about his life are scarce, but library and book records identify him as born in 1889.
He is best known for Ang Mestisa, a Tagalog novel published in 1920 and issued in two parts. Surviving records also connect him with other Tagalog works, including Matang maksalanan, showing that he wrote for readers of popular Filipino fiction during a period when Tagalog print culture was growing.
Because so little personal information is readily documented online, Valmonte is known today mainly through his books rather than through a detailed public biography. That said, the continued availability of his work in archives and public-domain collections has helped keep his name alive for modern readers interested in classic Tagalog literature.