Composed of a grandcollar featuring a circularlinkportrayingthearts, and an eight-pointedconventionalizedsunburst suspended from a sampaguita wreath in green and white enamel.
THE INSIGNIA OF THE ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTISTS
Medallion divided into three equal portions: red, blue and white, recalling the
Philippineflag.
THE INSIGNIA OF THE ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTISTS
Three stylized letter Ks - the KKK stands for the CPP's motto: Katotohanan,
Kabutihan, Kagandahan.
CCP's Founder
First Lady Imelda Marcos
HONORS AND PRIVILEGES
Lifetimeemolument and material and physicalbenefits comparable in value to those received by the highestofficers of the land:
Cash award of 100,000pesos for livingawardees
Cash award of 75,000 pesos for posthumousawardees, payable legal heirs
A monthlylifepension
Medical and hospitalization benefits
Lifeinsurancecoverage for awardees whoarestillinsurable
A statefuneral and burial at the Libingan ng mgaBayani
Aplaceofhonor
HONORSANDPRIVILEGES
The rank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the President of the Philippines.
The insignia of a National Artist and a citation.
AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ
National Artist for Literature (1973)
September 13, 1903 - May 24, 1970
"Makata ng Manggagawa"
AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ
poet, playwright, and novelist, is among the Filipino writers who practiced "committedart".
AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ
In his view, the functionofthewriter is to actastheconscienceofsociety and to affirmthegreatness of the humanspiritin the face of inequity and oppression.
AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ
Hernandez's contribution to the development of Tagalog prose is considerable - he stripped Tagalog of its ornate character and wrote in prose closer to the colloquial than the "official" style permitted.
AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ
His novel “MgaIbongMandaragit”, first written by Hernandez while in prison, is the firstFilipinosociopoliticalnovel that exposes the ills of the society as evident in the agrarian problems of the 50s.
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
National Artist for Literature (1973)
August 5, 1908 - February7, 1997
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Considered as oneofthefinestcontemporarypoetsregardlessofraceorlanguage
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Lived in Singalong, Manila
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
The first of his poems "HaveCome, AmHere" received critical recognition when it appeared in NewYork in 1942 that, soon enough honors and fellowships were heaped on him: Guggenheim, Bollingen, the AmericanAcademy of Arts and LettersAwards.
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as penname, the very characters he attributed to himself
NICK JOAQUIN
NationalArtistforLiterature (1976)
"Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino." - Culture and History, 1988
May 4, 1917 - April 29, 2004
NICK JOAQUIN
MostdistinguishedFilipinowriterinEnglish writing so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino
NICK JOAQUIN
Enriched the English language
Joaquinesque
BaroqueSpanish-flavoredEnglish or hisreinventionsofEnglishbasedonFilipinisms
Nick Joaquin's significance in Philippine literature involves his exploration of the PhilippinecolonialpastunderSpain and hisprobingintothepsychologyofsocialchangesasseenbytheyoung, as exemplified in stories such as DoñaJeronima, Candido'sApocalypse and TheOrderofMelchizedek
NICK JOAQUIN WORKS
Written plays, novels, poems, short stories and essays including reportage and
journalism.
NICK JOAQUIN PENNAME
deGuerreQuijanodeManila
NICK JOAQUIN WORKS [SPECIFIC]
The Woman Who Had Two Navels
A Portrait of the Artist asFilipino
Manila, My Manila: AHistory for the Young
TheBalladoftheFiveBattles
RizalinSaga
AlmanacforManileños
CaveandShadows
CARLOS P. ROMULO
National Artist for Literature (1982)
January 14, 1899 - December 15, 1985
CARLOS P. ROMULO
Multifaceted career spanned 50 years of publicservice as educator, soldier,
university president, journalist and diplomat. It is common knowledge that he was the first Asian president of the UnitedNationsGeneralAssembly, then Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later ministerofforeignaffairs.
CARLOS P. ROMULO
Romulo, in all, wrote and published 18 books, a range of literary works which
included The United (novel), I Walked with Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the
Essentially though, Romulo was very much into writing: he was a reporter at 16, a newspapereditor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32.
He was the onlyAsian to win America's coveted PulitzerPrizeinJournalism for a series of articles predictingtheoutbreakofWorld War II
His other books include his memoirs of his many years' affiliations with United
Nations (UN):
Forty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN
The Philippine Presidents - his oral history of his experiences serving all the Philippine presidents
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
NationalArtistforLiterature (1990)
September 6, 1916 - August 1, 2002
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
Writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher, and one of the mostimportant progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English.
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
the pride of fiction is "that it is able to render truth, that is able to
present reality"
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
A brilliantcraftsman, his works are now an indispensable part of a
tertiary-level-syllabi all over the country.
Arcellana's published books are SelectedStories (1962), PoetryandPolitics: The
State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977), The
FranciscoArcellanaSampler (1990).
ARCELLANA SHORT STORIES
Frankie
TheManWhoWouldBePoe
DeathinaFactory
Lina
A Clown Remembers
DividedbyTwo
The Mats
ARCELLANA POEMS
The Other Woman
This Being the Third Poem This Poem is for Mathilda
To Touch You and I Touched Her
ROLANDO S. TINIO
NationalArtistforTheatreandLiterature (1997)
March 5, 1937 - July 7, 1997
ROLANDO S. TINIO
Playwright, thespian, poet, teacher, critic and translator
Tinio's chief distinction is as a stagedirector whose original insights into the scripts he handled brought forth productions notable for their visual impact and intellectual cogency.