author
Engracio L. Valmonte
b. 1889
A Filipino novelist remembered for writing in Tagalog at a time when local-language fiction was helping shape modern Philippine literature. He is best known for Ang Mestisa, a two-part novel first published in 1920.
1 Audiobook
Ang Mestisa. Ikalawang Bahagi (Second Volume)
by Engracio L. Valmonte
About the author
Engracio L. Valmonte was a Filipino novelist born in 1889. The surviving sources I found are brief, but they consistently identify him as the author of Ang Mestisa, a Tagalog-language novel that appeared in two parts and was first published in 1920.
Ang Mestisa is the work most closely associated with his name today. Records from Project Gutenberg and library catalogs show that the novel continued to circulate long after its original publication, suggesting that it remained of interest to readers of Tagalog literature.
Beyond that, firmly documented biographical details are scarce in the sources available here. Even so, Valmonte stands as part of an early generation of Filipino writers who published substantial fiction in Tagalog, helping preserve and share stories rooted in Philippine language and society.