Jose N. Sevilla

Born in 1880 and remembered as a Filipino writer of Tagalog literature, José N. Sevilla is associated with the growth of popular reading in the Philippines during the early 1900s. He wrote fiction in a period when Tagalog novels and serialized stories were reaching more readers, helping shape the literary culture of his time.

He is known for works including Alamat ng ilang-ilang, showing an interest in storytelling rooted in local themes and traditions. Although detailed biographical records appear limited in the sources reviewed, he is consistently identified as an author active in the first half of the 20th century, with dates commonly given as 1880–1946.

Today, Sevilla is remembered less for celebrity than for his place in the foundation of modern Filipino popular literature. His surviving works offer a glimpse of an era when Tagalog writing was expanding in print and finding a broader public.