Antonio Abad was born in Barili on May 10, 1894. Studied at the Colegio de San Carlos. Primarily a Spanish writer, he wrote fiction, essays and plays. He edited La Revolucion, El Precursor, El Espectador, and The Advertiser. Abad won the Zobel Prize in 1928 for the novel El ultimo romantico and in 1929 for La oveja de Nathan (with Flaviano Zaragoza). He won prizes in the Commonwealth Literary Awards. He was also a professor at the University of the Philippines where he taught Spanish. Abad was called ‘el gran novelista de la literatura Filipinohispana despues de Rizal.’

He passed away in 1970.

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