10 Facts About Arturo Rotor

Arturo Belleza Rotor was a Filipino medical doctor, civil servant, musician, and writer.

Arturo Rotor graduated simultaneously from the Conservatory of Music and the College of Medicine.

Arturo Rotor trained further at Johns Hopkins University's medical school, publishing a paper on a rare form of hyperbilirubinaemia now known as "Rotor syndrome".

Later, Arturo Rotor was director of the University of the Philippines' Postgraduate School of Medicine and was a practising physician until the early 1980s.

Arturo Rotor was an internationally respected writer of fiction and non-fiction in English.

Arturo Rotor is widely considered among the best Filipino short story writers of the twentieth century.

Arturo Rotor was a charter member of the Philippine Book Guild; the guild's initial publication was Rotor's The Wound and the Scar, despite Rotor's protests that someone else's work should have been selected.

Arturo Rotor was a highly accomplished musician and published music critic.

Arturo Rotor died in 1988 from cancer and was survived by his wife Emma Unson, who taught college mathematics and physics.

An example of Arturo Rotor's writing, the short story "Zita", is available as part of The Best Philippine Short Stories:.