21ST(REGIONS)

• Leona Florentino

  • considered by some as the national poetess of the philippines
  • wrote nalpay a namnama o naunsyaming pag-asa(blasted hope)
  • she is considered as mother of Philippine women's literature and the bridge from oral to literary tradition
• Pedro Bucaneg

  • he was a filipino poet who is blid since birth and the father of ilokano literature
  • he is the acknowledged author of the ilokano epic biag-ni lam-ang
• Ines Taccad Cammayo

  • first price for people of consequence, Don Carlos palanca memorial awards for literature, 1970
  • second prize for tears, melancholy, focus literary contest, 1979
  • secpnd prize for on friends you pin such hopes, Don carlos palana memorial awards for literature, 1973
• Fernando Maramag

  • an excellent poet and journalist in english. He had a rich style and deep understanding of human nature
  • he wrote the poem The rural maid
• Anicio Pascual

  • He wrote juan manalaksan
  • he is from arayat, pampanga, who heard the story from an old pampangan woman
• Macaria Garcia

  • she did not write these stories, but she narrated them.
  • she narrated suan, the good guesser and suan's good luck
• Reyes and Rizal

  • manual reyes, from rizal, narrated sean eket
  • jose rizal, wrote legend of maria makiling aside from noli and el fili
• Mariano Perfecto

  • father of bikol literature
  • he published the first bikol newspaper, Ang parabareta(the newsman)
• Merito B. Espinas

  • he wrote ibalon
  • the story talks about three stories of bicol heroes
• Western visayas literature

  • also called the PANAYANON LITERATURE known for tungkung langit an alunsina
  • the paktakon is a riddle while the hurubaton is a proverb
• Vicente Sotto

  • the father of cebuano literature
  • he wrote the first written cebuano literature maming
• Clodualdo del mundo

  • he wrote the poem ang kanyang mga mata
• Short stories and poems

  • magnificence by estrella alfon footnote to youth by jose garcia villa
  • nick joaquin wrote the poems happy never after and the martyr
• mariano ponce

  • became an editor in chief, biographer and researcher of the propaganda movement
  • used tikbalang, kalipulako, and naning as pen names
• Jose Ma. Panganiban

  • hold his identity behind his pen name JOMAPA
  • Also known for having a photographic mind