FILIPINO AUTHORS

• Edith L. Tiempo

  • She is a poet, fictionist, teacher, and a literacy critic.
  • Born on April 22, 1919 in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya
  • Poems are intricate, significant, verbal experiences
  • She wrote: The Little Marmoset and Bonsai
  • She founded and Directed the Siliman News Writers in Dumaguete City
• Bienvenido Lumbera

  • He is a poet, liberrist, and scholar
  • He introduced Tagalog Literature known as "Bagay Poetry"
  • He pioneered the creative fusion of arts and popular imagination
  • His Major Books include: Tagalog Poetry, 1570-1898, Tradition and Influences in its Development, Philippine Literature: A history and Anthology
• Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez

  • Better known as N.V.M Gonzalez
  • He is a fictionist, essayist, poet, and teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in Rural and urban landscapes.
  • He won the first Commonwealth Literacy Contest in 1940
  • Received the Cultural Heritage Award in 1960
  • Gawad CCP para sa sining in 1990
  • 1987 U.P conferred on him the Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa
  • His authored books were the following: Winds of April, Seven Hills Away, Children of the Ash- covered loam and other stories
  • The Bamboo Dancers
• Virgilio S. Almario

  • Also known as Rio Alma
  • He is a poet, literary historian and a critic
  • He reinvented traditional Filipino poetic poems
  • Championed modernist poetics
  • In 34, he already published 12 books of poetry
  • This includes the Seminal Makinasyon and Peregrinasyon, and the Landmark trilogy Doktrina ng Anak Pawis, Mga retrato at rekwerdo and Muli, Sa kandungan ng Lupa.
• Cirilo F. Bautista

  • He is a poet, fictionist, and essayist with exceptional achievements.
  • He is acknowledge by peers and critics, and the nation at large as the foremost writer of his generation
  • He was an instrumental in the formation of the Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Center
  • Major works are Summer suns, words and battlefields, the trilogy of saint lazarus, galaw ng asoge.
• Nick Joaquin

  • regarded as the most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing
  • Enriched English Language by coining Joaquinesque
  • His voluminous works were: the woman who had two navels, a portrait of the artist as Filipino, Manila, My Manila: a history for the young, The ballad of the five battles, Rizal in saga, almanac for manilefios, cave and shadows
  • He died on April 29,2004
• F. Sionil Jose

  • His works collectively can be described as EPIC
  • Five-novel masterpiece consisting of My brother, my executioner, mass, and po-on.
  • Sweep philippine history by narrating the lives of generations of the Samsons whose personal lives intertwine with the struggles of society.
  • He is a publisher, lecturer on cultural issues
  • He is the founder of the Philippine chapter of International organisation
• Amado V. Hernandez

  • He is a poet, playwright, and novelist
  • He practiced commited arts
  • His novels were: Ibong mandaragit, first written by Hernandez while in Prison. It is the first filipino socio-political novel
  • His other works includes Bayang malaya, isang dipang langit, luha ng buwaya, Amado V. Hernandez: Tudla at Tudling: Katipunan ng mga nalathalang tula, Langaw sa isang basong gatas, magkaibang mukha ng isang bagol.
• Lazaro A. Francisco

  • Developed the social realist tradition in Philippine Fiction
  • His 11 novels are now acknowledged classics of Philippine Literature
  • Masterful handling of the Tagalog language
  • Supple prose style
  • He established the Kapatiran ng mga alagad ng Wikang Plipino (KAWIKA)
  • His reputation as master of the tagalog novel
  • His works are Ama, Bayang nagpatiwakal, maganda pa ang daigdig and Daluyong.
• Alejandro Roces

  • A short story writer and essayist
  • He is considered as the country's best writer of comic stories
  • He is known for my brother's peculiar chicken
  • He popularized several local fiestas such as Moriones and Ati-Atihan
  • He recovered Jose rizal's stolen manuscripts
  • He once said that "you cannot be a good writer;first you have to be a great person"
• Carlos P. Romulo

  • Multifaceted career spanned 50 years of public experience
  • First asian president of the United Nations General Assesmbly, the ambassador to Washington D.C and the later minister of foreign affairs.
  • He published 18 books
  • It included The United, I walked with Heroes, I saw the fall of the Philippines, Mother America, I see the Philippines rise
• Jose Garcia Villa

  • considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardles of race or language
  • He lived in Singalong, Manila
  • Introduced reverse consonance rime scheme including the comma poems that made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way.
  • the first of his poems "Have come, Am here"
  • He used Doveglion as a pen name
  • He is known for the Tartness of his tounge
  • His works include filmscripts, for now and forever, gamitin mo ako, bayad puri and Milagros, Sarswelas, Ang mestisa, ako, ang kirim ana maria, the komedya orosman at zafira, and larawan, the musical
• Rolando S. Tinio

  • He is a playwright, thespian,poet, teacher, critic, and translator,
  • He has a collections of poetry (Sitsit sa Kuliglig, Dunung- Dunungan, Kristal na Uniberso, A trick of Mirrors)
  • He also has works as Now and forever, Gamitin mo ako, Bayad Puri and Milagros, Sarswelas ang mestisa, Ako, Ang kirim Ana MAria, The komedya orosman at Zafira, and Larawan; the musical
• Francisco Arcellana

  • He is a writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist, and teacher
  • one of the most important progenitors of the modern filipino short story in english
  • The pride of the fictionist is " that is able to render the trut, that is able to present reality"
  • A brillian craftsman, his works are no indespensable part of tertiary- level- syllabi all over the COUFICIZ.
  • One of his short stories are Frankie, The man who would be poe and death in a factory
  • His poems are being the other woman for mathilda
• Levi Celerio

  • he is a prolific lyricist and composer for decades
  • He effortlessly translated/wrote a new lyrics to traditional melodies" O maliwanag na buwan" Ako ay may singsing, at Alibangbang
  • He is the youngest member of Manila symphony orchestra
  • Made it to the Guinness Book of World Records as only person to make music using a leaf
• Carlos Quirino

  • A biograhper and has the distinction of having written one of the earliest biographies of Jose Rizal entitled the Great Malayan
  • He is the first filipino correspondent for the United press institute.
  • His book maps and views of old manila is considered as best book on the subject
  • His other books include Quezon, Man of destiny, Magsaysay of the Philippines, Lives of the Philippine Presidents, Philippine Cartography, The History of Philippine Sugar Industry, Filipino Heritage: The making of a Nation, Filipinos at war: the fight for freedom from mactan to edsa.