Vicente Sotto

| May 6, 2015

Name: Vicente Sotto
Pseuodonym(s): Taga-Kotta, Sukol, Vicente Sukol
Date of Birth: April 18, 1877
Place of Birth: Cebu City

BIOGRAPHY

Vicente Sotto or Taga-Kotta (of the fort, or resident of the fort) is regarded as the “Father of Cebuano Language and Letters.” He was born in Cebu City on April 18, 1877 to Marcelino Sotto and Pascuala Yap. He finished his secondary education at the University of San Carlos. He became a senator, representative, and Philippine envoy to the UN General Assembly, and was elected Cebu mayor in 1907. He published La Justicia, El Pueblo, El Nacional, The Philippine Republic, The Independent, and Ang Suga. He penned the first realistic play, Yuta sa Gugmang Natawhan, and the first Cebuano operetta, Maktan. He also wrote short stories published in Bag-ong Kusog.

WORKS

Short Stories

  • “Baye ug babaye” (Bag-ong Kusog XIII: 21 September 21, 1928 pp. 8, 15-17)
  •  “Gaba” (Bag-ong Kusog XIX: 18 August 31, 1934 pp.6, 10, 30)
  •  “Gugma sa Inahan” (Bag-ong Kusog XXVI: 24 October 10, 1941 pp. 11, 28)
  •  “Mrs. Casta” (Bag-ong Kusog XIII: 52 April 26, 1929 pp. 11, 13 and XIV: 1 May 3, 1929)
  •  “Panalagna ni Pari Bindo” (Bag-ong Kusog VII: 73 February 22, 1922 pp. 7, 10)
  •  “Panumpa ni Cecilia” (Bag-ong Kusog XIX:11 July 13, 1934 pp. 12, 13, 24)
  • “Pinaakan” (Bag-ong Kusog XIX: 12 July 20, 1934 pp. 14, 19)
  • “Sugarol” (Bag-ong Kusog XX: 8 June 21, 1935 pp. 18, 19, 22, 26)
  •  “Maming” (reprinted: Bag-ong Kusog IX: 105 June 16, 1901 pp. 3, 10, 12) ; (original: Ang Suga June 16, 1901)

Drama

  • Gugma sa Yutang Natawhan (in Mga Sugilanong Pilipinhon, Barili Press, 1929; reprinted with English translation in Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, 4:2 June 1976)

Articles/ Essays

  • “Unang Dula nga Binisaya” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 107 July 4, 1924 p. 2)
  • “Atong Pinulongan” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 134 January 9, 1925 p. 6-7)
  • “Balaodnon ni Tugyanan Sotto” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 113August 15, 1924 p. 6)
  • “Binisayang Yungit sa Pila ka mga Matala-an” (Bag-ong Kusog VII: 44 August 16, 1921 p. 4)
  • “Buhat ni Manlalaban Vicente Sotto” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 81 January 4, 1924 p. 12)
  • “Dagang sa Amahan sa Pinulongang Binisaya” (Bag-ong Kusog XIII: 9 June 29, 1924 p. 12)
  • “Dagang ni Vicente Sotto” (Bag-ong Kusog XIX: 41 February 15, 1935 p. 32)
  • “’Duplo’ dili ‘balagtasan’” (Bag-ong Kusog X: 50 April 30, 1926)
  • “Giunsa ko Paghingpit ang Dilang Bisaya” (Bag-ong Kusog XII: 3 May 20, 1927 pp. 10, 15)
  • “Handumanan sa Sugbo: Akong Unang Pagbilanggo” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 106 June 27, 1924 pp. 4, 9, 12)
  • “Handumanan sa Sugbo: ‘Gacete Official’ ug ‘Rentas Internas” (Bag-ong Kusog XVII: 7 June 17, 1932 p. 16)
  • “Handumanan sa Sugbo: Kikoy Arias” (Bag-ong Kusog XVI: 51 April 15, 1932 p. 4)
  • “Handumanan sa Sugbo: Unang Dula nga Binisaya” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 107 July 4, 1924 pp. 2, 3)
  • “Handumanan sa Sugbo: Unang Mantalaang Binisaya” (Bag-ong Kusog XX: 10 July 5, 1935 p. 12)
  • “Handumanan sa Sugbu: Unang Pamantalaang Biisaya” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 105 June 20, 1924 pp. 3, 10, 12)
  • “Hinungdanong Sinulat ni Taga-Kotta” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 71 October 26, 1923 pp. 2-3, 10)
  • “Kinahanglan Magamatay Kitang Tanan” (Bag-ong Kusog XXI: 2 May 15, 1936 p. 24)
  • “Kon si Rizal Buhi Pa!” (Bag-ong Kusog XV: 38 January 16, 1931pp. 16-17, 20)
  • “Mahitungod gihapon sa ‘Sugbu’ ug dili ‘Sugbo’” (Bag-ong Kusog XXV: 11 July 12, 1940 p. 21)
  • “Pakigpulong Panamilit” (Bag-ong Kusog X: 5 June 12, 1925 pp. 7, 14-15)
  • “’Pamalaod’ ug ‘Kabalaoran’” (Bag-ong Kusog XVII: 11 July 15, 1932 p. 28)
  • “Sinulat ni Taga-Kotta Mahitungod sa Dilang Bisaya” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 78 December 21, 1923 p. 7)
  • “’Sugbu,’ dili ‘Sugbo’” (Bag-ong Kusog X: 15 August 21, 1925 p. 5)
  • “’Sugbu’ ug dili Sugbo’” (Bag-ong Kusog XXV: 8 June 21, 1940 p. 10)
  • “Tubag sa Tinugyanan Sotto kang Peña” (Bag-ong Kusog IX: 93 March 28, 1924 p. 5)
  • “Usa ka Tuyok sa Kalibutan” (Bag-ong Kusog XIV: 1, 6 May 29 and June 7, 1929 p. 8)

 

Category: Online Archive, Pre-War Writers

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