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  • THE INSIGNIA OF THE ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTISTS
    Composed of a grand collar featuring a circular link portraying the arts, and an eight-pointed conventionalized sunburst 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
    Philippine flag.
  • 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
    Lifetime emolument and material and physical benefits comparable in value to those received by the highest officers of the land:

    • Cash award of 100,000 pesos for living awardees
    • Cash award of 75,000 pesos for posthumous awardees, payable legal heirs
    • A monthly life pension
    • Medical and hospitalization benefits
    • Life insurance coverage for awardees who are still insurable
    • A state funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani
    • A place of honor
  • HONORS AND PRIVILEGES
    1. The rank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the President of the Philippines.
    2. 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 "committed art".
  • AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ
    In his view, the function of the writer is to act as the conscience of society and to affirm the greatness of the human spirit in 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 “Mga Ibong Mandaragit”, first written by Hernandez while in prison, is the first Filipino sociopolitical novel 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 - February 7, 1997
  • JOSE GARCIA VILLA
    Considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language
  • JOSE GARCIA VILLA
    Lived in Singalong, Manila
  • JOSE GARCIA VILLA
    The first of his poems "Have Come, Am Here" received critical recognition when it appeared in New York in 1942 that, soon enough honors and fellowships were heaped on him: Guggenheim, Bollingen, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards.
  • JOSE GARCIA VILLA
    He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as penname, the very characters he attributed to himself
  • NICK JOAQUIN
    • National Artist for Literature (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
    Most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino
  • NICK JOAQUIN
    Enriched the English language
  • Joaquinesque
    Baroque Spanish-flavored English or his reinventions of English based on Filipinisms
  • Nick Joaquin's significance in Philippine literature involves his exploration of the Philippine colonial past under Spain and his probing into the psychology of social changes as seen by the young, as exemplified in stories such as Doña Jeronima, Candido's Apocalypse and The Order of Melchizedek
  • NICK JOAQUIN WORKS
    Written plays, novels, poems, short stories and essays including reportage and
    journalism.
  • NICK JOAQUIN PENNAME
    de Guerre Quijano de Manila
  • NICK JOAQUIN WORKS [SPECIFIC]
    • 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 Manileños
    • Cave and Shadows
  • CARLOS P. ROMULO
    National Artist for Literature (1982)
    • January 14, 1899 - December 15, 1985
  • CARLOS P. ROMULO
    Multifaceted career spanned 50 years of public service as educator, soldier,
    university president, journalist and diplomat. It is common knowledge that he was the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, then Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later minister of foreign affairs.
  • 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
    Fall of the Philippines, Mother America, I See the Philippines Rise (war-time
    memoirs).
  • CARLOS P. ROMULO
    • Essentially though, Romulo was very much into writing: he was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32.
    • He was the only Asian to win America's coveted Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for a series of articles predicting the outbreak of World 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
    National Artist for Literature (1990)
    September 6, 1916 - August 1, 2002
  • FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
    Writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher, and one of the most important 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 brilliant craftsman, his works are now an indispensable part of a
    tertiary-level-syllabi all over the country.
  • Arcellana's published books are Selected Stories (1962), Poetry and Politics: The
    State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977), The
    Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990).
  • ARCELLANA SHORT STORIES
    • Frankie
    • The Man Who Would Be Poe
    • Death in a Factory
    • Lina
    • A Clown Remembers
    • Divided by Two
    • 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
    National Artist for Theatre and Literature (1997)
    • March 5, 1937 - July 7, 1997
  • ROLANDO S. TINIO
    Playwright, thespian, poet, teacher, critic and translator
  • Tinio's chief distinction is as a stage director whose original insights into the scripts he handled brought forth productions notable for their visual impact and intellectual cogency.