Francisco was posthumously named a National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 2009.

[3] Later on, he took third degree civil service examination where he qualified to become an assessor of the provincial government of Nueva Ecija.

Being an assessor in an agricultural province, most of his writings were focused on small farmers and their current conditions with foreign businessmen.

This lead him to win separate awards from Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940 and 1946, for his masterpieces, Singsing na Pangkasal and Tatsulok, respectively.

[5][4] In 1958, he established the Kapatiran ng mga Alagad ng Wikang Pilipino, roughly translated as "Brotherhood of the Disciples of the Filipino Language", a society that campaigned the use of Tagalog as the national language of the Philippines.