authors

• Francisco Sionil Jose is a Filipino author known for his novels and short stories that depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society.
• Five of Jose's works have won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
• Our chicken, inspired by the love dance, attacked the red rooster and won the fight.
• A strange thing happened during the cockfight - the red rooster did a love dance.
• A riot broke out after the fixed fight, and the narrator and their brother had to escape.
• After the escape, the chicken laid an egg.
• "The God Stealer" is a story about an American named Sam and his native friend Philip who travel to Ifugao, Philippines, where Philip's grandfather lives.
• Philip steals an Ifugao god, which leads to a series of events including the death of his grandfather and a strained relationship between Sam and Philip.
• Mother and Father argue about whether a chicken is a hen or a rooster.
• The outcome of the cockfight is not mentioned in the text.
• They consult Mr. Cruz, a poultry expert, who also cannot determine the chicken's gender.
• Kiko suggests proving the chicken's gender by having it fight in a cockfight.
• Kiko chooses a red rooster from Texas as the opponent.
• They ask the village chief, who is unable to determine the chicken's gender.
• Villa received awards and honors such as a Guggenheim Fellowship, Bollingen Foundation Fellowship, and Shelley Memorial Award.
• His popular poems include "When I Was No Bigger Than A Huge" and "The Emperor's New Sonnet."
• "Footnote to Youth" is a story about the main character Dudong who asks Teang to marry him and they have children, but later regret their decision.
• He was appointed Presidential Adviser on Cultural Affairs by the Philippine government in 1968 and elected Philippines National Artist in 1973.
• Villa published "Philippine Short Stories: Best 25 Short Stories of 1928" in 1929, an anthology of Filipino short stories written in English.
• "Fiesta" is a book of essays featuring folk festivals, and "Something to Crow About" is a collection of Roces' short stories.
• Roces published books such as "Of Cocks and Kites", "Fiesta", and "Something to Crow About".
• "My Brother's Peculiar Chicken" is a story about a chicken that causes an argument between the narrator and their brother.
• "Of Cocks and Kites" earned Alejandro the reputation as the country's best writer of humorous stories.
• Roces won Best Short Story for "We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers" and his story "My Brother's Peculiar Chicken" was listed as Martha Foley's Best American Stories.
• Alejandro R. Roces was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist, and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature.
• The story is about Leon and his wife Maria returning to Leon's village after getting married.
• They travel to the village on a cart pulled by their bull named Labang.
• Baldo, Leon's younger sibling, welcomes Maria to the family and is impressed by her beauty.
• Maria is enchanted by the natural beauty and simple lifestyle of the village.
• Jose Villa used the pen name "DOVEGLION" based on characters derived from his own works.
• Manuel Arguilla is the author of "How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife."
• They meet Leon's mother and sister at their house, where Maria is tested to see if she can adjust to village life.
• Jose Villa was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973.
• Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter.
• Jose Garcia Villa introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing poetry and used extensive punctuation marks, especially commas.
• Manuel Arguilla won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940.
• Nicomedes "Nick" Marquez Joaquin was a Filipino writer and journalist known for his short stories and novels in the English language.
• Joaquin published his first English poem about Don Quixote at the age of 17.
• Joaquin was awarded José Garcia Villa's Honor Roll in 1940.
• Manuel Estabilla Arguila earned his Bachelor of Arts in Education in 1933 at the University of the Philippines.