Epifanio Alfafara (1882–1933) was a Filipino
Visayan
Visayans (Visayan: ''mga Bisaya''; ) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao. When taken as a single ethnic group, ...
writer in the
Cebuano language
Cebuano ([Cebuano]
on Merriam-Webster.com ), natively called by its generic term Bisaya or Binisaya (bot ...
of political and philosophical articles. He used Isco Anino as a pen name.
Alfafara was a native of
Carcar
Carcar, officially the City of Carcar ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Carcar; fil, Lungsod ng Carcar), is a 5th class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component city in the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Cebu, Philippines. Accord ...
. He translated ''Ang Dose Pares sa Pransiya'' into Cebuano. His son,
Sergio Alfafara
Sergio R. Alfafara (born July 27, 1920, date of death unknown) was a Filipino Cebuano language, Cebuano Visayan writer. A parish priest, he published, authored and translated religious and missal texts in Cebuano. He published a grammar of Cebuano ...
, was also a noted Cebuano writer.
The Alfafara father and son, writers of Carcar
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1882 births
1933 deaths
Cebuano people
Cebuano writers
Filipino writers
Visayan writers
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