Biography k lope santos

Filipino writer, poet, activist, and politician

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Santos and the second or maternal family name is Canseco.

Lope K.

Santos (born Lope Santos y Canseco, September 25, 1879 – May 1, 1963) was a FilipinoTagalog-language writer and former senator of the Philippines. He is best known for his 1906 socialist novel, Banaag at Sikat and for his contributions to the development of Filipinogrammar and Tagalog orthography.

Biography

Lope K. Santos was born in Pasig, Province of Manila (now a part of Metro Manila) as Lope Santos y Canseco to Ladislao Santos, a native of Pasig, and Victorina Canseco, a native of San Mateo, on September 25, 1879.

He was raised in Pandacan.^[2] His father was imprisoned during Philippine Revolution because Spanish authorities found copies of José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and Ang Kalayaan in his possession.

Santos was sent to Escuela Normal Superior de