National Artists for Literature

• Franciscano Arcellana


  • One of the greatest Filipino Poets
• Franciscano Arcellana


  • One of the pioneers of modern Filipino short story in English
• Franciscano Arcellana


  The Torres Torch

  “The Man Who Would Be Poe”
• Franciscano Arcellana


  Short stories in prose-poetic form

  • “Death in a Factory”, “A Clown Remember”, and “Divided by Two”

  • Poems include “The Other Woman”, “To Touch You”, and “I Touched Her”
• Nestor Vicente Madali


  N. V. M.
• Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzales


  •He became U.P.’s International-Writer-In-Residence and a member of the Board of Advisers of the U.P. Creative Writing Center
• Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez


  ••The Winds of April

  ••Seven Hills Away

  ••Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories •

  •The Bamboo Dancers •

  •Look Stranger, on this Island Now •

  •Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty -One Stories

  ••The Bread of Salt and Other Stories •

  •Work on the Mountain

  ••The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994
• Nick Joaquin


  Considered by many as the people’s writer because his passion for writing embraced the manifold being of Filipinos.
• Nick Joaquin


  “The Sorrows of Vaudeville,” (1937) by the Sunday Tribune Magazine
• Nick Joaquin


  He worked as a journalist for most of his life, pioneering literary journalism.
• Nick Joaquin


  • Quijano de Manila
• Literary journalism 


  is the reportage of actual events t hat employs literary techniques.
• F. Sionil Jose


  rich in themes drawn from his rural upbringing, amounted to a continuing morality play about poverty and class divisions in the Philippines.
• F. Sionil Jose


  Works have been translated in more than 20 languages
• F. Sionil Jose


  • Rosales Saga, most famous work
• The Pretenders


  story of one man’s separation from his poor background and dissipation of his wife’s prosperous family
• Rosales Saga


  “captures the sweep of Philippine history while simultaneously narrating the lives of generations of the Samsons whose personal lives intertwine with the social struggles of the nation.”
• Jose Garcia Villa


  considered as a powerful literary influence in the country
• Jose Garcia Villa


  His style is similar to Suerat’s architectonic and measured pointillism
• Pointillism


  painting technique in which the artist uses small, distinct dots of pure color to create an image
• Jose Garcia Villa


  first collection of short stories was published under the tile Footnote to Youth: Tal es of the Philippines and Others in 1933. His poetry collections include Doveglion: Collected Poems, Poems 55, and Poems in Praise of Love: The Best Love Poems of Jose Garcia Villa.
• • Doveglion is Villa’s pseudonym.
• Edith Tiempo


  Works are often described as remarkable fusion of and substance.
• Edith Tiempo


  Recipient of Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for literature for the short story “Th e Black Monkey” -1951.
• Edith Tiempo


  Founded “Silliman University National Writers Workshop” with her husband Edilberto K. Tiempo. The longest running workshop in Asia and located at Dumaguete
• Virgillio S. Almario


  • Also known as Rio Almario
• Virgillio S. Almario


  • Poet and Historian
• Virgillio S. Almario


  “Makinasyon”,“Peregrinasyon”,“The trilogy Doktrinang Anakpawis”, Mga Rektrato at “Rekwerdo and Muli”, “Sa Kandungan ng Lupa”
• Amado V. Hernandez


  ❑Known for disapproval of social injustice for the country and get imprisoned.
• Amado V. Hernandez


  He acted as the conscience of so ciety and to affirm the greatness of the human spirit in the face of inequity and oppression.
• Amado V. Hernandez


  Married another artist Atang de la Rama.
• Amado V. Hernandez


  He wrote “Mga Ibong Mandaragit” while in prison.
• Carlos P. Romulo


  Envoy, soldier, correspondent, writer a nd founder of Boy Scout of the Philippines
• Carlos P. Romulo


  Only Asian awardee of “Pulitzer Price” for the articles about World War 2
• Carlos P. Romulo


  He also wrote “A Third World Soldier at the UN and The Philippine Presidents” after his years of service in the UN and the Philippine Government
• Carlos L. Quirino


  Biographer
• Carlos L. Quirino


  Works: Man of Destiny (1935), Biography about Manuel L. Quezon
• Carlos L. Quirino


  He also works as the assistant to President Elpidio Quirino. So most of his works topic covered war, politics, art, business, and agriculture
• Alejandro R. Roces


  • Writer of comics and short stories
• Alejandro R. Roces


  He wrote “My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken” that talks about how much people perceive things around them