Alejandro G.

Abadilla
Alejandro G. Abadilla (March 10, 1906August 26, 1969), commonly known as AGA, was a Filipino poet, essayist and fiction writer. Critic Pedro Ricarte referred to Abadilla as the father of modern Philippine poetry, and was known for challenging established forms and literature's "excessive romanticism and emphasis on rime and meter". Abadilla helped found the Kapisanang Panitikan in 1935 and edited a magazine called Panitikan. His Ako ang Daigdig collection of poems is oneof his better known works. Early life Abadilla was born to an average Filipino family on March 10, 1906, in Salinas, Rosario, Cavite. He finished elementary school at Sapa Barrio School, then continued for high school education in Cavite City. After graduation, he worked for abroad into a small printing shop in Seattle, Washington. He edited several section of the Philippine Digest, PhilippinesAmerican Review and established Kapisanang Balagtas (Balagtas' Organization). In 1934, he returned to the Philippines where he finished AB Philosophy at the University of Santo Tomas. Until 1934, he became municipal councilor of Salinas before shifting to insurance selling job. Major works Aside from writing Ako ang Daigdig, Abadilla wrote several poems and compilation of his works:

Mga Kuwentong Ginto (Golden Stories) - he co-edited with Clodualdo del Mundo. Mga Piling Katha: Ang Maikling Kathang Tagalog (Chosen Works: An Anthology of Short Stories in Tagalog) - he co-edited with F.B. Sebastian and A.D.G. Mariano. Maiikling Katha (Short Stories) - together with Commission on Filipino Language head Ponciano B.P. Pineda. Mga Piling Sanaysay (Several Essays). Parnasong Tagalog: Katipunan ng mga piling tula mula kina Huseng Sisiw at Balagtas hanggang sa kasalukuyang panahon ng pamumulaklak at pagkaunlad (Tagalog Works: Compilation of Poems from Huseng Sisiw through Francisco Balagtas until Present Times of Flourishing Philippine Poetry). Ako ang Daigdig at Iba pang mga Tula (I am the World and Other Poems). Tanagabadilla, Una at Ikalawang Aklat (Tanagabadilla: First and Second Books)compilation of Abadilla's tanagas. In Filipino poetry, a tanaga is a short poem of one stanza with 7-7-7-7 syllabic verse, with an AAAA rhyme scheme. Usually, a tanaga is embedded with symbols. Tanagabadilla is a coined term consisting of tanaga and Abadilla. Pagkamulat ni Magdalena (Magdalena's Awakening) - a novel which he co-edited with Elpidio P., Kapulong.

Ako ang Daigdig According to Pedro Ricarte,[1] Abadilla's major breakthrough in Philippine poetry was when he wrote his poem Ako ang Daigdig (I am the World) in 1955. Initially, poetry critics at that time rejected the poem since it does not follow the traditional poetry that uses rhyming scheme and proper syllable numbering. In the poem, the repetition of the words ako (I), daigdig (world) and tula (poem) leaves an impression that the poet, Abadilla, is not himself. The speaker of the poem tells that he himself, his world of poem and his poems are united as one

Angela Manalang-Gloria
Angela Manalang-Gloria (1907 - 1995) was a Filipino female poet in the English language. Early life Angela Caridad Legaspi Manalang was born on August 2, 1907 in Guagua, Pampanga to parents, Felipe Dizon Manalang (born in Mexico, Pampanga) and Tomasa Legaspi (whom she hardly mentions). However, their family later settled in the Bicol region, particularly in Albay. Caringas she is fondly calledstudied at St. Agnes Academy in Legaspi, where she graduated valedictorian in elementary. In her senior year, she moved to St. Scholastica's College in Malate, Manila, where her writing started to get noticed. Angela Manalang was among the first generation female students at the University of the Philippines. Angela initially enrolled in law, as suggested by her father. However, with the advice of her professor C.V. Wickers, who also became her mentor, she eventually transferred to literature. Writing It was also during her education at the University of the Philippines that she and poet, Jose Garcia Villa developed a life-long rivalry. Both poets vied for the position of literary editor of The Philippine Collegian, which Manalang eventually held for two successive years. In her junior year, she was quietly engaged to Celedonio Gloria whom she married. She graduated summa cum laude with the degree of Ph.B. in March 1929. After graduation, Manalang-Gloria worked briefly for the Philippine Herald Mid-Week Magazine. However, this was cut short when she contracted tuberculosis. Achievements She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine's Commonwealth Literary Awards in 1940. She was also the author of the poetry collection , Poems, first published in 1940 (and revised in 1950). The collection contained the best of her early work as well as unpublished poems written between 1934-1938. Her last poem, Old Maid Walking on a City Street can also be found in the collection. This book was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing to Rafael Zulueta y da Costas verse Like the Molave. Personal life On March 11, 1945, her husband Celedonio and her son Ruben were attacked by a Japanese patrol in Alitagtag, Batangas. Though her husband died, Ruben was able to survive, yet his trauma had been so severe that he could not bring himself to recount the attack. This event left Manalang-Gloria a young widow with three children to support, which forced her to abandon writing and enter the abaca business, which she successfully managed. Death Angela Manalang-Gloria died in 1995.

Ambeth Ocampo
Ambeth R. Ocampo is a multi-awarded Filipino historian, academic, journalist, and author best known for his writings about Philippines' national hero Jos Rizal, and for his bi-weekly editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, "Looking Back." He became the chair of the Philippines' National Historical Institute in 2002 and of the National Commission for Culture and the A rts in 2005. Educational background Ocampo was educated in the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University from primary, secondary and tertiary levels but attained his BA and MA in Philippine Studies from De La Salle University, Manila. He took graduate courses in the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and later read for a DPhil in Southeast Asian History at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His postgraduate work was interrupted in 1993 when he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, Manila where he was known as Dom. Ignacio Maria, OSB. While he left the monastery in 1997 he still considers returning sometime in the future. Columnist Ocampo started writing for Weekend Magazine of the Philippines Daily Express in 1985 and joined the staff soon after. His column, "Looking Back", first appeared in the Philippine Daily Globe in 1987 and he compiled the material from these columns into two bestselling books: Looking Back and Rizal Without the Overcoat. In 1990, the Philippine Daily Inquirer took on Ocampo and his column. In December 1996, to commemorate the centennial of Jose Rizal, Ocampo and the Inquirer published a series of front-page articles about Rizal which won the first LRP Award for Journalism. The series was later integrated into an expanded edition of Rizal Without the Overcoat. [2] When Ocampo was appointed chair of the National Historical Institute, and later elected chair of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, even President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared she was an ardent reader of Ocampos newspaper column, admiring his writings because he makes history so approachable. Government service In 2002, Ocampo was appointed Chairman of the National Historical Institute by the President of the Philippines, and in 2005 he was elected Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Philippines.[4] As NCCA chairman he was granted full powers to sign, for the Republic of the Philippines, Cultural Agreements with Pakistan, Vietnam, and North Korea as well as Executive Programs on culture with France, Mexico, and the People's Republic of China. While his NCCA term expired in 2007 he remains a NCCA Commissioner as NHI Chairman. Prior to these national government positions he served as Co-Chair, with Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, of the Manila Historical Commission 1996-1998.

He recently weathered criticism over his attempt to enforce the existing Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines by reminding artists singing the Philippine national anthem at international boxing bouts of the proper way to sing the anthem, and his controversial decision to paint the Rizal clan house green - to teach Filipinos the origin of the word "rizal" that came from "ricial" meaning a green field ready for harvest. In academe Ocampo, is currently Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of History, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University and Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines (Diliman). He is also a member of the Board of Regents, Universidad de Manila (formerly City College of Manila) where he served as President and Vice-President for Academic Affairs 1996-1998. On April 23, 2008, Ocampo gave a lecture entitled "Bridging the cultural and generation gap among second generation Filipinos in Europe" at the Philippine Embassy in Vienna. His personal and official papers, notes and correspondence are deposited in the University of the Philippines Archives in Diliman, Quezon City. A collector of Filipiniana his extensive library is divided between: his home in Makati City; Holy Angel University, Angeles, Pampanga; the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Library, Kyoto University; Published works Some of Ocampo's more popular books (most still available in print today) include[10]

Looking Back (1990, revised 2009) Rizal Without the Overcoat (1990, revised 2008) Makamisa: The Search for Rizal's Third Novel (1992, revised 2008) Aguinaldo's Breakfast (1993) A Calendar of Rizaliana in the Vault of the Philippine National Library (1993) Bonifacio's Bolo (1995) Teodora Alonso (1995, reprinted 2008) Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo (1995) Mabini's Ghost Luna's Moustache The Centennial Countdown (1998, revised in 2008 and retitled 101 Stories of the Philippine Revolution) Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures (2001) Bones of Contention: The Bonifacio Lectures (2001) 60 Years and Bon Vivant: Philippine-French Relations (As editor, 2008)

Honors, awards, and decorations Ocampo has won three National Book Awards in these categories: Essay, Literary HIstory, and Bibliography. He also won a Premio Manuel Bernabe awarded by the then Centro Cultural de la Embajada de Espana en Filipinas and a Premio Quijano de Manila from the Instituto Cervantes Manila. He was elected National Fellow for Essay by the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center (1995 - 1996); was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (2000) and Research Fellow, Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies (2003). His other awards include: TOYM Ten Outstanding Young Men (History) in 1997, Gawad Balagtas lifetime achievement award (Essay) from the Writers Union of the Philippines, 2006 MetroBank Outstanding teacher Award, Gatpuno Villegas Award/ Patnubay ng Sining one of the highest awards given by the City of Manila for Culture (2007).

Allan Lopez
Allan B. Lopez is a writer from the Philippines. He graduated from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, with a BA in Speech Communication. A fellow for drama in the 38th and the 45th UP National Writers Workshop, Lopez has won a number of awards for his dramatic work, and his plays have been staged in various venues and laboratory festivals (Cultural Center of the Philippines, UPLB, DLSU-CSB, among others). He is an active member of the playwrights group The Writersbloc, Inc. and co-moderates an online group of writers called Guniguni: The Absent Muse. He is also the webmaster of the Writersbloc website and is an occasional blogger. His fiction, non-fiction and poetry in both English and Filipino have been published in local newspapers and magazines like The Philippine Star, The Philippine Graphic and Liwayway Magazine. His play Anatomiya ng Pag-Ibig appears in the anthology Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Dula 1997-2003 edited by Rene Villanueva & Victor Emmanuel Carmelo Nadera, Jr. A personal anthology of his works for the stage is forthcoming. One-Act and Ten-Minute Plays

Jaclyn, 2000 (DLSU-CSB's Dulaang Filipino, 2005) Anino, 2000 Delubyo , 2000 Doble Kara, 2005 (UPLB's Icebag Tarugo 4, 2005) Love Me Tender, 2002 Domestik, 2004 Lukso ng Dugo, 2005 Little Brown Fucking Machines, 2005 Kasaysayan, 2007 (3rd Virgin Labfest, 2007)

Full Length Plays

Binhing Malay, children's play co-written with Jerico Midel, 1998 Anatomiya ng Pag-Ibig, 2003 (Virgin Labfest, 2005) Something Happened, 2005 Seniors Ball (adaptation of Rene Villanueva's novel for Teens) 2006

Short Fiction'

Kumpol ng Mga Roses in Liwayway Magazine, 2003 Hundreds Upon Hundreds of Forgotten Memories Will Suddenly Appear When She Finally Decides To Leave What Could Only Be Called Mistakes In Her Life, And At This Precise Moment She Will Have Realized That All The Time She Can Spare Is Long Lost And Will Never Be Returned in the Philippine Graphic Magazine, 2006, and in Philippine Speculative Fiction vol. 2, ed. Dean Francis Alfar, Kestrel, 2006

Arnold Arre
Arnold Arre (born on September 2, 1971 in Metro Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino comic book writer and artist. Arre has won National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle for his graphic novels The Mythology Class (1999), a four-part action-adventure miniseries that was rereleased as a Special Collected Edition by Adarna House in 2005 and Trip to Tagaytay (2000), a one-shot future fiction short story. Both were released under his self-owned Tala Comics Publishing. His other titles include the romantic comedy After Eden (2002), published by Adarna House, and the self-published Ang Mundo ni Andong Agimat (2006). Aside from his comics work, Arnold has done numerous design and illustration jobs for various clients such as The San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts and Sony BMG Music Entertainment Philippines. He has also taken part in local and international group exhibits and has had a one-man fantasy-themed show, Mythos in 2000. Arnold resides in Quezon City and is married to graphic designer Cynthia Bauzon. Works
Graphic Novels (Self-published)

Published by Adarna House

Published by Nautilus Comics

Commissioned Work

Illustration for Graphic Classics:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2002, Eureka Productions) Illustration for Graphic Classics: H. P. Lovecraft (2002, Eureka Productions) Cover for Graphic Classics: Jack London volume 1 (2003, Eureka Productions) Pencils and Inks for Lastikman (2004, Mango Comics) 21-page comic for Graphic Classics:Jack London volume 2 - The Wit of Porportuk (2006, Eureka Productions) Illustrated for Cast (comic):Issue 10 (2006, Nautilus Comics) Illustrated for Cast (comic):Issue 11 (2007, Nautilus Comics) Illustrated for Private Iris'

Amado V. Hernandez
Amado Vera Hernandez, commonly known as Amado V. Hernandez (September 13, 1903March 24, 1970) was a Filipino writer and labor leader who was known for his criticism of social injustices in the Philippines and was later imprisoned for his involvement in the communist movement. He was the central figure in a landmark legal case that took 13 years to settle.

He was born in Hagonoy, Bulacan but grew up Tondo, Manila, where he studied at the Manila High School and at the American Correspondence School. Writer While still a teenager, he began writing in Tagalog for the newspaper Watawat (Flag). He would later write a column for the Tagalog publication Pagkakaisa (Unity) and become editor of Mabuhay (Long Live). His writings gained the attention of Tagalog literati and some of his stories and poems were included in anthologies, such as Clodualdo del Mundo's Parolang Ginto and Alejandro Abadilla's Talaang Bughaw. In 1922, at the age of 19, Hernandez became a member of the literary society Aklatang Bayan which included noted Tagalog writers Lope K. Santos and Jose Corazon de Jesus. In 1932, he married the Filipino actress Atang de la Rama. Both of them would later be recognized as National Artists: Hernandez for Literature, de la Rama for Theater, Dance and Music. Works Novels His socio-political novels were based on his experiences as a guerilla, as a labor leader and as a political detainee.

Mga Ibong Mandaragit (Birds of Prey),1969 Luha Ng Buwaya (Crocodile's Tears), 1972

Poems

Isang Dipang Langit (An Arm's Length Piece of the Sky) Panata sa Kalayaan (Oath to Freedom) Ang Dalaw (The Visit) Bartolina (Solitary Confinement) Kung Tuyo Na ang Luha Mo Aking Bayan (When Your Tears Dry Up, My Country)

Short Stories

Wala nang Lunas (No more Remedy) Kulang sa Dilig (lack of Watering) Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas (Fly in a Glass of Milk) Dalawang Metro sa Lupang Di-Malipad ng Uwak (Two Meters in the Land Which a Crow Can't Fly on) Ipinanganak ang Isang Kaaway sa Sosyedad (An Enemy of the Society is Born)

Magpinsan (Cousins)

Plays His plays are mostly based on his experiences in prison. Muntinglupa , 1957 Hagdan sa Bahaghari (Stairway to the Rainbow), 1958 Ang Mga Kagalang-galang (The Venerables), 1959 Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol (Two Sides of A Coin), 1960 Essays Si Atang at ang Dulaan (Atang and the Theater) Si Jose Corazon de Jesus at ang Ating Panulaan (Jose Corazon de Jesus and Our Poetry) Freedom fighter Hernandez joined the resistance movement when the Japanese invaded in the Philippines in 1941. He was an intelligence operative of the guerilla outfit of Marking and Anderson, whose operations covered Bulacan and the Sierra Madre mountains, throughout the Second World War. While he was a guerilla, Hernandez came in contact with guerillas of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon (Hukbalahap) which was founded by Luis Taruc and other communist ideologues continued by the Philippine Commonwealth troops entered in Bulacan. It is believed that this was when Hernandez developed sympathies, if not belief, with the communist movement. Labor leader After the war, President Sergio Osmena appointed him councilor of Manila during the reconstruction of the war-devastated city. He also became president of the defunct Philippine Newspaper Guild in coordination with its editor in chief, Narjeey Larasa. In 1950, the Philippine military started a crackdown against the communist movement, which was had sparked open rebellion in some areas on Luzon island, and the CLO headquarters was raided on January 20, 1951. Hernandez was arrested on January 26 on the suspicion that he was among the leaders of the rebellion. It was while he was imprisoned that he wrote his most notable works. He wrote Isang Dipang Langit (A Stretch of Heaven), which later won a Republic Cultural Heritage Award, and Bayang Malaya (Free Nation), which later won a Balagtas Award. Also written in prison was his masterpiece Luha ng Buwaya (Tears of the Crocodile). Portions of his novel Mga Ibong Mandaragit (Birds of Prey) was also written while he was at the New Bilibid Prison. He also edited the prison's newspaper Muntinglupa Courier. After five years of imprisonment, the Supreme Court allowed Hernandez to post bail on June 20, 1956. He then resumed his journalistic career and wrote a column for the Tagalog tabloid Taliba. He would later be conferred awards in prestigious literary contests, like the Commonwealth Literary Contest (twice), Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards (four times) and journalism awards given by the National Press Club of the Philippines (four times). On May 30, 1964, the Supreme Court acquitted Hernandez in a decision that would be a landmark in Philippine jurisprudence. The case People of the Philippines vs. Amado V. Hernandez is now a standard case study in Philippine law schools. Hernandez continued to write and teach after his acquittal. He was teaching at the University of the Philippines when he died on March 24, 1970.

Alfredo Navarro Salanga

Alfrredo "Freddie" Navarro Salanga[1] (died 1988[2]) is a Filipino literary critic[2], columnist, journalist, novelist, poet, fictionist, editor, and multi-awarded writer.[3] He was a member of the Manila Critics Circle.[2] He was the author of 1984 novella The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez. He had been nicknamed as "Daddy Giant". Biography In 1969, Salanga obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1969. He was a former Secretary-General of the Writers Union of the Philippines, a former director of the Philippine Board on Books for Young People, a former director of the Pinaglabanan Galleries, a former trustee of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC), and a former Director-General of the People's Movement for Press Freedom Task Force for the People's Right to Know. He had been a member of the following associations: the International PEN, Philippine Chapter, the Philippine's National Press Club, the Association for Philippines-China Understanding, the Philippine-British Society, and the Art Association of the Philippines. Awards In 1969, Salanga became a recipient of the Mulry Award for Literary Excellence. He was also an awardee for the 1980, 1983, and 1985 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He was a winner during the 1984-1985 USA Annual Salute to the Arts Competition that was sponsored by Triton College in Illinois. In 1984, he won the Best Opinion Column award from the Catholic Mass Media Awards. In 1986, he won the Book of the Year award. He became one of the Ten Most Outstanding Men of the Year (TOYM) for Literature and Journalism in 1985. Works Apart from The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez, Salanga's literary works included the following: The Aglipay Question: Literary and Historical Studies (1982), Commentaries Meditations Messages A Parable Cycles and Confessions (1985), Portraits (1988). As an editor, Salanga edited the following literature: Rizaliana for Children: Drawings and Folk Tales by Jose Rizal (1984), New Writing from the Philippines (Philippine Studies, 1985), Versus: Philippine Protest Poetry, 1983-86 (1986), Kamao: Panitikan ng Protesta, 1970-1986 (1987), An Anthology of Poets in Search of God, Posthumous: Turtle Voices in Uncertain Weather: Poems 1980-1988 (CCP, 1989), Chronicles & Dispatches (New Day, 1991), and Buenavista Ventures (Ateneo de Manila University Office of Research and Publications, 1998).

Andrew Gonzalez
Brother Andrew Benjamin Gonzalez FSC PhD (February 29, 1940 January 29, 2006) was a linguist, writer, educator, and a De La Salle Brother. He served as president of De La Salle University from 1979 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he served as Secretary of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports. After his term ended, he returned to De La Salle University as Vice President for Academics and Research from 2001 to 2003 and as Presidential Adviser for Academics and Research from 2003 to 2005. Gonzalez conceptualized the De La Salle University System and helped expand the range of Lasallian education in the Philippines. During his first term, Gonzalez established the College of Career Development of De La Salle University-Manila which later became De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and took over a college and a medical school in Dasmarias which became De La Salle University-Dasmarias and De La Salle Health Sciences Institute. Early life Gonzalez was born as Macario Diosdado Arnedo Gonzalez in Manila to Augusto Gonzalez, a prominent businessman and wealthy landowner and Rosario Arnedo, daughter of Pampanga Governor Macario Arnedo. Gonzalez attended and completed grade school at De La Salle College in Manila. He was a consistent honor student and graduated as salutatorian. He also finished his High School at De La Salle College in 1955 as Valedictorian. His love for teaching made him decide to become a De La Salle Christian Brother. He finished his novitate at the De La Salle Retreat House in Baguio City on November 20, 1955 and made his initial vows the year after.[1] He joined the Scholasticate of the De La Salle Christian Brothers in Winona, Minnesota, U.S.A. on December 10, 1956.[1] He studied at Saint Mary's College, a Christian Brother-run college in Winona and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the top of his class at the age of 19.[1] He obtained his Master of Arts in English Literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. the year after. He returned to the Philippines in 1960 and began teaching English Language and Literature at the high school department of La Salle College in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. He served in several administrative positions at De La Salle College in Manila from 1964 to 1967 and made his final vows as a De La Salle Brother on May 30, 1965. He took up graduate courses in linguistics in the Philippine Normal College. Recognition In recognition of Gonzalez's achievements, he received awards from the City of Manila, National Press Club, Adamson University and from San Beda College. He received honorary doctorate degrees from Waseda University and Soka University in Japan, St. Paul University in Canada and from St. Mary's College of California. De La Salle University Manila granted him the title of President Emeritus on September 28, 2005 and DLSU-Manila's new state-ofthe-art 20-storey General Education Building was named the Brother Andrew Gonzalez Hall.

Alejandro Roces
Alejandro Reyes Roces, better known to close friends and family as Anding, is a Filipino fictionalist, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. Infamous for his short stories, Anding was born in Manila on the 13th of July 1924. He is married to Irene Viola, and has a daughter named Elizabeth. Anding attended elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University, before moving to the State University of Arizona for his tertiary education. He graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts and, not long after, attained his M.A. from Far Eastern University back in the Philippines. Through his colorful youth, Roces was a captain in the Markings Guerilla during World War II and a columnist in Philippine dailies such as the Manila Chronicle and the Manila Times. He also once became President of the Manila Bulletin and the CAP College Foundation. To many Filipinos, Roces is best known for his stint as Secretary of Education and more recently, as Chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). At present, Alejandro Roces is a member of the Board of Trustees of GSIS (Government Service Insurance System) and expresses his passion for writing and educating the public by maintaining a column in the Philippine Star called Roses and Thorns. Literary works During his freshman year in the University of Arizona, Roces won Best Short Story for We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers. Another of his stories, My Brothers Peculiar Chicken, was listed as Martha Foleys Best American Stories among the most distinctive for years 1948 and 1951. He has since received honorary doctorates from Tokyo University and Polytechnic University of the Philippines [1]. Roces did not only focus on short stories alone, as he also published books such as Of Cocks and Kites (1959), Fiesta (1980), and Something to Crow About (2005). Of Cocks and Kites earned him the reputation as the country's best writer of humorous stories. It also contained the widely anthologized piece My Brothers Peculiar Chicken. Fiesta, is a book of essays, featuring folk festivals such as Ermita's Bota Flores, Aklan's Ati-atihan, and Naga's Peafrancia. Something to Crow About, on the other hand, is a collection of Roces short stories. The book has been recently brought to life by a critically-acclaimed play of the same title; the staged version of Something to Crow About is the first Filipino zarzuela in English. This modern zarzuela tells the story of a poor cockfighter named Kiko who, to his wife's chagrin, pays more attention to the roosters than to her. Later in the story, a conflict ensues between Kikos brother Leandro and Golem, the son of a wealthy and powerful man, over the affections of a beautiful woman named Luningning. The resolution? A cockfight, of course. Something to Crow About won the Aliw Award for Best Musical and Best Director for a Musical Production. Through the years, Roces has won numerous awards, including the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, the Diwa ng Lahi Award, the Tanging Parangal of the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, and the Rizal Pro Patria Award. He was finally bestowed the honor as National Artist of Literature on the 25th of June 2003. When once asked for a piece of advice on becoming a famous literary figure Roces said, "You cannot be a great writer; first, you have to be a good person".

Awards

National Artist Award for Literature, Republic of the Philippines 2003 The Rizal Pro Patria Award, Republic of the Philippines Grand Cross for Distinguished Service with Star and Epaulement of the Order for Distinguished Service of the Federal Republic of Germany Orden de Isabel la Catolica, Spain Gran Cruz la Orden del MeritoCivil, Spain Orden de la Aguila Azteca, Mexico Tanda Kehormatan Bintang Mahaputera, Republic of Indonesia Grand Maitre de LOrdre National, Republic of Malagasy Order of the White Elephant, Kingdom of Thailand Order of the Brilliant Star, China One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines, chosen by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for distinction in Journalism Awarded, Patnubay ng Kalinangan (Vanguard of Cul*ture), City of Manila 1988 Granted the Conde de Foxa Award for El Llegado and La Campana de Baler at the Certamen Cine Documental Ibero-Americano y Filipino, Bilbao, Spain Awarded, Diwa ng Lahi (Spirit of the Race), City of Manila 1988 Appointed Honorary Ambassador-at-Large for Guam - 1998 Awarded the Tanging Parangal ng CCP, Gawad CCP Para sa Sining 1990 Philippines S.E.A. Write Awardee 1997 Recipient of Plaque of Recognition, The Royal and Pontifical, University of Santo Tomassss (UST) - 1999 Recipient of Green and Gold Artist Award, Far Eastern University (FEU) 1994 Recipient of Special Plaque of Recognition from the Consulate General of the Philippines to Guam Recipient Plaque of Appreciation from the Korea Art Culture Association of the Republic of South Korea Recipient of Plaque of Recognition from the Filipino-American Service Group, Inc. 2007 Recipient of Mayors Commendation, City of Glendale, CA, USA Given by Mayor Ara Njarian- 2007 Recipient of the Certificate of Recognition given by the County of Santa Clara, CA, USA 2007 Recipient of Plaque of Appreciation, Philippine National BANK (PNB) 2007 Recipient of Plaque of Recognition, Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) 2003 Recipient of Outstanding Citizen Award, City of Makati, 1997 Recipient of Plaque of Appreciation from the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) 1994 Recipient of Plaque of Appreciation from the Philippine Association of Management Accountants 1997 Recipient of Plaque of Appreciation from the League of Vice Governors of the Philippines 1999 Recipient of Plaque of Appreciation from the Philippine British Society 2003 Recipient of Plaque of Appreciation from the Consular Corps of the Philippines 2006 Recipient of Plaque of Gratitude from the Diwa Scholastic Press, Inc. 2005 Recipient of the Statuette of Fr. Theopiel Verbist, Founder of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, St. Louis University 2004 Recipient of the Maria Clara Legacy Award 2006

Adrian Cristobal
Adrian E. Cristobal (February 20, 1932 December 22, 2007) was a Filipino writer who frequently touched on political and historical themes. Perhaps best known to the public for his "Breakfast Table" newspaper column, he was also a Palanca Award-winning playwright, fictionist and essayist. He likewise held several positions in government during the administration of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Upon his death from lung cancer on December 22, 2007, a Resolution was proposed in the Philippine Senate citing Cristobal as "a prolific journalist, a political satirist, a historical writer and lecturer, a well-respected columnist, a brilliant fictionist and essayist, a creative playwright, a literary genius and a hardworking publisher." Biography Cristobal studied at the University of the East, though he would drop out of college. By age 15, he had won literary prizes for his fiction, and by 17, his byline was appearing in the pages of the country's leading newspapers such as the Manila Chronicle. [3] As a young writer, he became affiliated with a group of fellow writers based in U.P. Diliman known as the Ravens. In the 1960 Palanca Awards, Cristobal garnered the Second Prize in the One-Act Play (English) category for his satirical play The Largest Crocodile in the World. All copies of the play have reputedly been lost upon the initiative of the politician believed to have been depicted in the work. Cristobal again won the Second Prize in the 1983 Palanca Awards, this time in the essay category. Cristobal also authored two books on the national hero Andres Bonifacio; The Tragedy of the Revolution and The Trial. In 1962, Cristobal was contracted to write the screenplay of Gerardo de Leon's film adaptation of El Filibusterismo, for which he won a FAMAS award for Best Screenplay. Cristobal was among the intellectuals enticed by Ferdinand Marcos to join his administration. During martial law, he headed the speech-writing office of the Office of the President. He was later appointed as the Chairman of the Social Security System and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines. After the ouster of Marcos in 1986, Cristobal joined the Philippine Daily Inquirer as a newspaper columnist. He left the Inquirer in 2000 to become the publisher of the Manila Times. After a short stint with the Times, he joined the Manila Bulletin as an associate editor and columnist. He remained affiliated with the Bulletin, and was also the publisher of the Philippine Graphic magazine at the time of his death. Cristobal was an active member and organizer within the Philippine literary community. He founded the Unyon ng Mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas (UMPIL), a union of Filipino writers. As a member of the U.P. Board of Regents, he initiated efforts that led to the establishment of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. His daughter Celina, was publisher and editor-in-chief of a socio-political magazine The Review in the late 70s and later was the lifestyle editor of the daily paper the Manila Chronicle in the 90s. She was elected Vice-Chairman of UMPIL and presently sits as Secretary-General.

Benigno Juan
Benigno Juan (born November 20, 1938) is a journalist and a writer. Benigno Juan was born in Santa Quitria, Novaliches, Quezon City. As both his parents were farmers, he learned to till soil at an early age and became a farmer. He was a working student from high school until college, taking up odd jobs from farming to working in a paper mill, until he found his true calling as a journalist/writer. He received his AB Journalism degree from Manuel L. Quezon University. Juan served as managing editor of Liwayway magazine for 16 years, and wrote numerous short stories, serialized and illustrated novels, essays, feature articles, and others. Afterwards, he became the editor and columnist of People's Journal and People's Taliba newspaper of the Journal Group of Companies. Community Works Benigno Juan has served as an elected barangay councelor of Palatiw, Pasig City for two terms. He formally organized and registered the Palatiw Senior Citizen Association, Inc. (PASCA), of which he is now President. Juan is also a former President of the San Agustin Parish Pastoral Council and a member of the Federation of Senior Citizens of Pasig City. Awards Benigno Juan has obtained many awards for his writings, such as:

Seven Don Carlos Palanca Awards; Ten Surian ng Wikang Pambansa awards for essay; Two Samahang Balagtas awards for fiction; The Binhi Award for Agricultural Writing; An Outstanding Pasigueo Award for literature and journalism (1994); 2005 Outstanding Senior Citizen of Pasig City Award; 2006 Gawad Pambansa Alagad ni Balagtas, which was given by the Unyon ng Manunulat ng Pilipinas

Works Benigno Juan is famous for many of his works. Examples include Ang mga Deboto, Bagyo, Ina, Kapag di ukol, Kotse, Maluwalhating Pasko, Sa Paskong Darating, Si Tatang, Sorpresa, Sumpa, Ang mga tinik ni Sigfreda, Wala nang lawin sa bukid ni Tata Felipe, Trahedya, Tagtuyot, Saan ihahanap ng puwang ang hiningat panagimpan, Piitan, Pangamba, Orasyon, Monumento, Malas, Maibabalik pa ba?, Lagablab ng isang yagit, Kabayu-kabayuhan, Isang ganap na paglaya, Inhustisya, Ibagsak ang ano, kailan at paano, Gusto kong umiyak, Duguang sapatos, Dilim, Ama, Masarap, Masakit Umibig (Taliba newspaper, 2006), Bahay Kuwago (Taliba, 2006), and Futuristic. Noted Articles

Malikmata (1974) Wala nang Lawin sa Bukid ni Tata Felipe (1975); Lagablab ng Isang Yagit (1977); Pagkamulat at iba pang Sanaysay (1980 Kaya Bang Ipiit at Saka Tanuran ang Isang Gunita (1981). Orasyon sa Simbahan, sa Piitan at sa Coral Ballroom ng Manila Hilton Habag

Bienvenido Santos
Bienvenido N. Santos (19111996) was a Filipino-American fictionist, poet and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.

Biography Santos received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines where he first studied creative writing under Paz Marquez Benitez. In 1941, Santos was a government 'pensionado (scholar) to the United States at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. During World War II, he served with the Philippine government in exile under President Manuel L. Quezon in Washington, D.C., together with the playwright Severino Montano and Philippine National Artist Jose Garcia Villa. In 1946, he returned to the Philippines to become a teacher and university administrator. He received a Rockefeller fellowship at the Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. Santos has also received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature as well as several Palanca Awards for his short stories. Scent of Apples won a 1980 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Santos received honorary doctorate degrees in Humanities and Letters from the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay) in 1981. He was also a Professor of Creative Writing and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Wichita State University from 1973 to 1982, at which time the University awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters. After his retirement, Santos became Visiting Writer and Artist at De La Salle University in Manila; the University honored Santos by renaming its Creative Writing Center after him. Works Novels

The Volcano (1965) Villa Magdalena (1965) The Praying Man (1977) The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor (1983) What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco? (1987) Short Story Collections Dear Miss Samonte You Lovely People (1955,1976) Brother, My Brother (1960) The Day the Dancers Came (1967,1983) Toledo is the Love (1969) Dwell in the Wilderness (1985) Collections of Letters (unknown)

Estrella Alfon
Estrella D. Alfon (1917 December 28, 1983) was a wellknown Filipina author who wrote almost exclusively in English. As a Filipino writer, Estrella Alfon lived her life of being a prolific writer who hailed from Cebu. Because of unwavering and poor health, she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing Center. She died in the year 1983 at the age of 66. Estrella Alfon was born in Cebu City in 1917. Unlike other writers of her time, she did not come from the intelligensia. Her parents were shopkeepers in Cebu.[1] She attended college, and studied medicine. When she was mistakenly diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, she resigned from her pre-medical education, and left with an Associate of Arts degree. Alfon has several children: Alan Rivera, Esmeralda "Mimi" Rivera, Brian Alfon, Estrella "Twinkie" Alfon, and Rita "Daday" Alfon (deceased). She has 10 grandchildren. Her youngest daughter, was a stewardess for Saudi Arabian Airlines, and was part of the Flight 163 crew on August 19, 1980, when an in-flight fire forced the aircraft to land in Riyadh. A delayed evacuation resulted in the death of everyone aboard the flight. Alfon died on December 28, 1983, following a heart attack suffered on-stage during Awards night of the Manila Film Festival. Achievements

1940: A collection of her early short stories, Dear Esmeralda, won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award. 1961-1962: Four of her one-act plays won all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play Writing Contest: Losers Keepers (first prize), Strangers (second prize), Rice (third prize), and Beggar (fourth prize). 1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for With Patches of Many Hues. 1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress".[5] 1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center.

Palanca Awards Estrella Alfon has won the Palanca Awards a number of times[6]:

Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place, 1960) With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962) Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963) The Knitting Straw, One-act Play, (Third place, 1968) The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)

Stories

Magnificence and Other Stories (1960) Stories of Estrella Alfon (1994) (published posthumously) Servant Girl (short story) English

Encarnacion Alzona
Encarnacion A. Alzona (March 23, 1895 March 13, 2001) was a pioneering Filipino historian, educator and suffragette. The first Filipino woman to obtain a Ph.D., she was conferred in 1985 the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines. Early life and education Alzona was born in Bian, Laguna and grew up in Tayabas. Her father was a trial court judge and a distant relative of Jose Rizal.[3] Both her parents were voracious readers, a circumstance that fostered her academic inclinations. She obtained a degree in history from the University of the Philippines in 1917, and a master's degree the following year from the same university. Her thesis was a historical survey on the school education of women in the Philippines, a theme that proved apt in light of her later activism as a suffragette. Alzona pursued further studies in the United States as a scholar funded by the American government. She obtained another master's degree in history from Radcliffe College in 1920, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1923. Alzona was the first Filipino woman to have obtained a Ph.D. Alzona returned to the Philippines in 1923 and joined the faculty of the Department of History of the University of the Philippines. Public figure Alzona chose to remain in Manila for the duration of the Japanese Occupation during World War II. She was involved in the guerilla movement against the Japanese. After the war, Alzona was appointed by President Manuel Roxas as a member to the Philippine delegation to the UNESCO. She served in the delegation until 1949, and was elected to chair the Sub-Committee on Social Science, Philosophy and the Humanities in 1946.[7] From 1959 to 1966, Alzona was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines. In 1985, Alzona was named as a National Scientist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos. Alzona was one of few Filipinos notable in their own right who reached centenarian status, or whose life spanned three generations. She died 10 days shy of her 106th birthday in 2001. She is interred at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Historian From her perch in the academe, Alzona wrote several books on the history of the Philippines. Her first book, published in 1932, was entitled A History of Education in the Philippines 1565-1930. It was lauded as "a comprehensive account of the education and cultural development of the country [and] probably the most complete and comprehensive work on the subject to date".[7] Alzona also wrote biographies on pioneer Filipino women such as Paz Guazon and Librada Avelino, and undertook to translate historical works of Jose Rizal and Graciano Lopez Jaena. She authored a Spanish language historical monograph entitled El Llegado de Espaa a Filipinas, for which she received the Lone Prize awarded by the Il Congreso de Hispanistas de Filipinas in 1954.

Edmundo Farolan
Edmundo Farolan, born in Manila (1943), was a young writer-scholar who had won literary awards abroad when he studied philosophy and letters in Madrid. He taught English, Spanish, and Media in various universities, including the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University, Webster University (Thailand), University of Silesia (Czech Republic), Dalian University (China), University of Toronto, and Corpus Christi College (Canada). Farolan obtained his Bachelor's degree from Ateneo de Manila University, a Master's degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D in Speech Communication from Bowling Green State University (USA). He has acted professionally for Teatro Filipino (CCP) and directed for the Vancouver Actors' Theater and the Vancouver Experimental Theatre. He is the Founding Editor of an Arts & Entertainment e-zine, ReviewVancouver, and Revista Filipina. A recipient of the Premio Zobel in 1981, he has published several books of poetry, anthologies, textbooks and translations. Among these is his outstanding translation of a Latin American novel into Tagalog, Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Guiraldes which was sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina. He has been a member of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Espaola since 1983 and has given lectures on linguistics and Fil-Hispanic literature internationally. In 1983, he delivered a lecture on " Recto y Literatura " in Caracas, Venezuela. He also published his Reflexiones Sobre el Primer Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Espaola as well as other articles in Spanish on HispanoPhilippine Literature and Linguistics. From 2002 to 2005, he lectured at the Universit de Bretagne Occidentale (France), Ateneo Obrero de Gijn (Spain), University of Oulou (Finland), Dresden Polytechnic University (Germany), and Donetsk Academy (Ukraine).

Emmanuel T. Santos
Emmanuel T. Santos, popularly known as Noli Santos, is a lawyer, management practitioner, and educator in the Philippines. He was a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention which drafted the 1973 Philippine Constitution. Santos is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the International Academy of Management and Economics, a business school in Makati City, Philippines. Current Global Work Noli Santos is currently World Forum Ambassador and Member of the Global Senate, a Global Senator, and Secretary General of the Global Senate established in Washington D.C. in June-July 2009. He is also Lifetime Secretary General of the United Cultural Convention based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Management experience Santos has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBC-13 Broadcasting Company, and Vice President and member of the board of directors of the Manufacturer's Bank. He is the Founding President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of the International Academy of Management and Economics, a prestigious business school in Makati City; and the International University Foundation Montessori Learning Center, Inc., a basic education provider, located in Meycauayan, Bulacan; and International Montessori School in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna and Marikina City. He was co-founder of the Chamber of Philippine Department Stores which he advised to launch the Mother's Day in May and Father's Day in June of every year, following American practice. He is chairman-CEO of the IAME Institute of Strategic and International Studies which copublishes the IAME Journal of Management, Law and Economics. He is the President Emeritus of the Philippine Council of Management (Philcoman), the oldest management association of the Philippines and President Emeritus of Philippine Association of Voluntary Arbitrators (NCR). He was the Producer-Host, Public Policy Forum, ANC ABSCBN News Channel, First Season: July 17 to October 2, 2005.He was Producer-Host of "U-TV" - The First Open University on Television in the field of Management aired over RPN-Channel 9 in mid1990's. Publications Organization and Management Corporate Governance:Concepts,Values and Practices Practices, Concepts, and Principles of Management Human Resource Management (co-author) Strategic Planning:Concepts, Processes, Issues (co-author) The Philippine Business Laws The Constitution of the Philippines: Notes and Comments Obligation and Contract Taxation: Concepts, Principles, Practices, and Trends (co-author)

Emmanuel F. Lacaba
Emmanuel Agapito Flores Lacaba (born on December 10, 1948, died on March 18, 1976), popularly known as Eman Lacaba, was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, playwright, fictionist, scriptwriter, songwriter and activist and he is considered as the only poet warrior of the Philippines. Biography Born in Cagayan de Oro in 1948 to Jose Monreal Lacaba of Loon, Bohol and Fe Flores from Pateros, Rizal, he is considered the only poet warrior of the Philippines and one of the leading figures in Philippine literature today together with his brother Jose "Pete" Lacaba. Lacaba wrote the lyrics of "Awit ni Kuala", the song sung by Lolita Rodriguez in the classic Lino Brocka masterpiece 'Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang '. He also composed new revolutionary lyrics in Cebuano for some well-known folk songs. Lacaba was born and raised in Pateros. In an essay he wrote as a high school student, "Personal Statement of Emmanuel Lacaba", which his brother Jose, more popularly known as Pete, believes was written in connection with his application for an American Field Service (AFS) scholarship, he described his family thus: "Our family is neither rich nor very poor. At least we have enough to live on." Lacaba has often been compared to the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, a fact he himself alluded to in one of his poems, "Open Letters to Filipino Artists", where he told of his being called "the brown Rimbaud." The comparison stems from the fact that he was, like Rimbaud, an enfant terrible, a literary virtuoso at a very young age--he started writing poetry at 14and did so like a master even then. The similarity between them became all the more striking when he lost his life without reaching his fortieth year--just like Rimbaud. He received almost all of his pre-university education from the Pasig Catholic College. While still a student of this school, he applied for and received an AFS scholarship, through which he got to spend an entire school year in the United States. After high school, he had the chance to choose among no less than three scholarships from the University of the Philippines (UP), the Ateneo de Manila University, and De la Salle University. He chose the Manuel de Leon scholarship at the Ateneo de Manila University, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, and maintained it until he completed his course. This, despite the fact that he spent much of his time away from the classroom, writing or doing research. It was at the Ateneo that he began to be involved in social and political causes. He was part of a group which fought for the Filipinization of the university administration, which was then largely American-led, and the use of Filipino as medium of instruction. His group also called on their schoolmates to immerse themselves in the issues which had begun to galvanize their fellow students at UP. In his early days as an activist, his poetry began to show signs of the road he was to take for the rest of his life, with his increasingly frequent use of the image of Icarus, a Greek mythological character who burned his wings, fell to the sea, and died because he flew too close to the sun--an often-used symbol for those who perish in the pursuit of lofty causes.

He also joined Panday Sining, the cultural arm of the militant Kabataang Makabayan, and is believed to have participated in the First Quarter Storm.

In his college days he frequently commuted between the Bohemian life and activism. It was only after college that he would turn his back on the former. Before he graduated from college, he won a major literary award for Punch and Judas, a short novel depicting the transformation of an intellectual, Felipe "Philip" Angeles, from Bohemian to activist. After college, he taught Rizal's Life and Works at UP and got involved in the labor movement. He also became a member of the militant writers' group Panulat para sa Kaunlaran ng Sambayanan. Just two months before the declaration of martial law, he was among a number of picketers at a small factory in Pasig who faced threats and truncheons from the police while the strike was being dispersed. He was arrested and briefly incarcerated. After that, he became active on the stage, writing and acting in plays. He also assisted in film productions, and among his compiled writings are a number of unfinished film storylines. He wrote the lyrics for the theme song of the Lino Brocka-directed movie Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, which takes potshots at the hypocrisy of society. In 1975 he set out for Mindanao to cast his lot with the armed revolutionary movement, to become a "people's warrior", as he later called himself in a poem. Such was his passion for writing that he wrote even while leading the life of a revolutionary guerilla. It was in the hills, in fact, that he wrote one of the poems he is best remembered for, "Open Letters to Filipino Artists", where he wrote of the armed revolutionary movement thus: "We are tribeless and all tribes are ours./We are homeless and all homes are ours./We are nameless and all names are ours./To the fascists we are the faceless enemy/Who come like thieves in the night, angels of death:/The ever moving, shining, secret eye of the storm." Works Lacaba wrote the lyrics of "Awit ni Kuala", the song sung by Lolita Rodriguez in the classic Lino Brocka masterpiece 'Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang '. He also composed new revolutionary lyrics in Cebuano for some well-known folk songs.

Epifanio de los Santos

Epifanio de los Santos y Cristbal (April 7, 1871April 18, 1928) was most distinguished as a Filipino historian, intellectual titan , literary critic, jurist, antiquarian, and patriot. He was appointed director of the Philippine Library and Museum by Governor General Leonard Wood in 1925. Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (commonly known as EDSA), the main road through Metro Manila, was named in honor of him. Several schools, streets, a college, a hospital and even a printing press were also named after him. There is an Epifanio De Los Santos Auditorium in the Philippine National Library. His full name when translated from Spanish means "Epiphany of the saints bearing Christ inside". Early life He was born in 1871 in Malabon, Rizal, to an affluent hacendero Escolastico de los Santos of Nueva Ecija and harpist or pianist Antonina Cristbal of Malabn. He studied at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila where he obtained a summa cum laude of Bachelor of Arts degree and at the University of Santo Tomas where he finished his law studies. He topped the bar exams. As a young man he was humbled by the feat of his classmates and study mates of their fluency in Spanish and had grown a liking and desire to learn Spanish through his admiration of a novel entitled "Pepita Jimnez" of the Spanish realist Juan Valera y AlcalGaliano. Rafael Palma (1930) noticed that during his college years his collecting instinct was early manifested when he curiously dedicated himself gathering plants and flowers in the Nueva Ecija area wherein he also sought the company and even communed with the rural communities. According to Agoncillo, "nobody suspected that he would someday become a literary man". His home in Intramuros became the meeting place of the finest and young cultured nationalistic literary clique comprising of Cecilio Apstol (Catulo), Fernando Ma. Guerrero (Fulvio Gil), Jos Palma, Rafael Palma (Hapon), Jaime C. De Veyra, Macario Pineda, Mariano V. Del Rosario (Tito-Tato), Salvador V. Del Rosario (X. Juan Tagalo), Ysidro Paredes, Macario Adriatico, Jose Clemente Zulueta and Jose G. Abreu (Kaibigan). According to Wenceslao E. Retana, most of the men who contribute largely to the most brilliant period or Golden Age in Philippine-Spanish Literature were those same men who gathered every Thursday at Don Panyong's entresuelo. A Great Filipino Academician

Seor De los Santos was considered one of the best Filipino writers in Spanish of his time, compared only to Marcelo H. del Pilar. As a young man, he was the first Filipino to become a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language, Spanish Royal Academy of Literature and Spanish Royal Academy of History in Madrid and was touted as the "First Filipino Academician". It was the admiration of his writings that Marcelino Menndez y Pelayo asked the Real Academia Espaola to open its door to the benevolent young native scholar. Eventually, he formed a delightful acquaintanceship with the rest of the iconic academicians of that time, including his favorite Spanish author which is Juan Valera. As an ardent nationalist, De los Santos was a young associate editor of the outselling and influential revolutionary paper "La Independencia"(1898), writing in scathing prose under the pen name G. Solon and also a member of the Malolos Congress. He also co-founded other newspapers like La Libertad, El Renaciemento, La Democracia, La Patria and Malaysia. He also made valuable publications namely; Algo de Prosa (1909), Literatura Tagala (1911), El Teatro Tagala (1911) Nuestra Literatura (1913), El Proceso del Dr. Jos Rizal (1914), Folklore Musical de Filipinas (1920). He also authored Filipinos y filipinistas (Filipinos and Filipinists), Filipinas para los Filipinos, Cuentos y paisajes Filipinos (Philippine Stories and Scenes) and Criminality in the Philippines (19031908). He was an eminent scholar of "Samahan ng mga Mananagalog" which was initiated by Felipe Calderon in 1904, and it includes active members with the likes of Lope K. Santos, Rosa Sevilla, Hermenigildo Cruz, Jaime C. De Veyra and Patricio Mariano. He was a man of many talents and had been documented as a translator (Spanish, English, French and German), linguist (even dialects like Ita, Tingian, Ibalao), philosopher, philologist, paleographer, pyschologist, painter, musician (guitar, piano and violin), poet, biographer, bibliographer, monographer, journalist, publisher, essayist, editor, literary critic, art critic, lecturer, researcher, government executive, jurist, politician, lawyer, outstanding civil servant and philanthropist in his lifetime by various historians (Gregorio F. Zaide, Libardo D. Cayco, Teodoro Agoncillo et al.), local and foreign writers and even American critics like Austin Craig and A.V. Hardtendorp. As a gifted artist, he was described as a brilliant painter but failed to develop more of this talent. As an accomplished musician, he was one of the expert pianist and master guitar player in his time compared to his follower, Guillermo Tolentino (distinguished sculptor), and General Fernando Canon (revolutionary hero). The artistic potential of the guitar through his skills was realized and documentedly praised by local and foreign music critics like Charles E. Griffith. Griffith likened his guitar playing to the great Segovia of Spain. He was also known to play the violin as well. In fact, he was awarded a professorship in music. This outstanding feat earns him more of a polymath status just like Jose Rizal. Gregorio F. Zaide, his biographer, and Hartendorp has described him a rare genius with his encyclopedic knowledge and talents. A Revered Filipino Patriot The erudite scholar was well traveled, going to many places in Europe, Asia and Americas searching for rare Philippine documents in big museums, archives and libraries. As an inveterate bibliophile, his books is comparable to Pardo de Tavera & Jos Rizal's collections. He collected almost 200 paintings and sculptor pieces (Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fabian de la Rosa, Arellano, Pablo Amorsolo and Fernando Amorsolo, Nepomuceno, and Guillermo Tolentino), musical literatures, opera records, valuable printed materials, documents and manuscripts on the revolution and historical pictures. He built one of the best and rare collections and libraries in the Philippines, excluding those of the religious corporations. According to Zaide, his famous Filipiniana collection was rated by foreign scholars as the best in the world. His intense passion for learning makes him a revered Filipino patriot. In Europe, he was recognized as the premier philologist and writer of biographical matters about the Philippines.

He made a large body of works on Philippine literature, arts, music, politics and biographical and historical sketches of great and notable Filipinos which includes Andrs Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Pardo de Tavera, Ignacio Villamor, Francisco Balagtas, Jos Rizal, Wenceslao Retana, Yusay, Rafael Del Pan, Miguel Morayta, "The Women of Malolos" etc. He also translated Filipino literary works into Spanish, notably Balagtas' Florante at Laura (1916). He died in office on April 18, 1928. The Philippine government paid him a tribute to a stately funeral. Local and foreign scholars lamented to a loss to what has been described by them as the "Great among the Great Filipino Scholars".

Cesario Azucena
Cesario Alvero Azucena Jr., popularly known as Ces Azucena or C.A. Azucena, is a prominent labor lawyer, professor, management consultant, and author in the Philippines. Azucena obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Ateneo Law School, a Master of Public Administration from the University of the Philippines, and has attended courses in the Master of Business Administration program of De La Salle Professional Schools. Human resource career Azucena was once an organizer and president of a labor union of teachers. He worked as a human resource manager in business firms and non-profit organizations for more than twenty years. He was accredited as a Fellow in Personnel Management by the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines, the umbrella organization of all human resource practitioners in the country. Law practice Azucena is currently Chairman of the Labor Law Department at Ateneo Law School. He is also a faculty member and bar reviewer in San Beda College of Law and the University of the Philippines. He is a professorial lecturer in the MBA-JD Consortium of De La Salle Professional Schools and Far Eastern University Institute of Law. Azucena is a partner in ISLAMA Law Offices, a Makati City-based law firm. He remains a retained consultant to several business firms and a frequent lecturer and resource speaker in corporate and public seminars throughout the country. Azucena has written a gamut of books and articles on labor law and labor-management relations in the Philippines. His works are often cited in decisions penned by justices of the Philippine Supreme Court. His widely-published books are either required or suggested reading material in several law, business, and graduate schools in the country. Professional awards Azucena has received awards for professional dedication, leadership, and scholarly work. He received Sikap-Gawa Industrial Peace Award from the Bishops'-Businessmen's Conference of the Philippines, Outstanding Achievement Award from the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines, and the Supreme Court Centenary Book Award

from the Supreme Court of the Philippines during its centennial anniversary celebrations in June 8, 2001. Publications

The Labor Code with Comments and Cases: Volume I. Rex Book Store, 2007. The Labor Code with Comments and Cases: Volume II. Rex Book Store, 2007. Everyone's Labor Code. Rex Book Store, 2007. Labor Laws Source Book. Rex Book Store, 2007. Essential Labor Laws. Rex Book Store, 2004. Democracy and Socialism: A Curriculum of Contentions. Rex Book Store.

Csar Ruiz Aquino

Csar Ruiz Aquino is a Filipino poet and fictionist. He was born and raised in Zamboanga City, Philippines. He was educated at the Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines and Silliman University. He began his writing career when Philippine Graphic published his story Noon and Summer in 1961. At age 19, he received a writing fellowship to attend the 1st Silliman University (now Dumaguete) National Writers Workshop with Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez, Wilfrido Nolledo and Jose Lansang, Jr. in 1962. He studied creative writing under Edilberto Tiempo, Edith Tiempo, Francisco Arcellana and Nick Joaquin. Ruiz Aquino has mentored many students, teachers, artists and writers at Ateneo de Zamboanga, the University of the Philippines in Baguio City, Maryknoll College, Lyceum of the Philippines University, Foundation University and Silliman University. He earned his Ph.D at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, where he has been teaching creative writing and literature since 1981. He is also a regular lecturer-panel member at the Annual Dumaguete National Writing Workshop. Ruiz Aquino has received Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for poetry (1978, 1997) and short fiction (1979, 1989). He has also received a Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for Lifetime Achievement from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas (Writers' Union of the Philippines or UMPIL) in 1997. He was also named National Fellow for Poetry by the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing (U.P. ICW) in 2003. Ruiz Aquino publications include Chronicles of Suspicion (short stories, Kalikasan Press, 1988), Word Without End (poems, Anvil Publishing,1993) and Checkmeta: The Cesar Ruiz Aquino Reader (poems and stories, Midtown Printing Company, 2004). He is currently working on Mr. Mxyzptlk Pops Into the Room, a novel. Books

Chronicles of Suspicion (short stories, Kalikasan Press, 1988) Word Without End (poems, Anvil Publishing,1993)

Checkmeta: The Cesar Ruiz Aquino Reader (poems and stories, Midtown Printing Company, 2004).

Honors and awards

Writing Fellow, 1st Dumaguete National Writers Workshop (1961) Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for poetry (1978, 1997) and short fiction (1979, 1989) Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for Lifetime Achievement from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas (Writers' Union of the Philippines or UMPIL) in 1997 National Fellow for Poetry by the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing (U.P. ICW) in 2003 S.E.A. Write Award, 2004

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is a Filipina author of historical fiction based in California, U.S.A.. She was born in Cebu, Philippines, attended St. Theresa's College in Cebu and in San Marcelino, Manila. She also went to Maryknoll College in Quezon City from 1964 to 1968, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts. She also did graduate work in film making at UCLA in 1969. Brainard's works include the internationally acclaimed novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Woman with Horns and Other Stories and Philippine Woman in America. She is the editor of the anthology Fiction by Filipinos in America and teaches creative writing at the Writers' Program of UCLA Extension. Biography She was born in 1947 and grew up with her influential family in Cebu City, on the Island of Cebu, Philippines. Cebu appears in her short stories and novel as Ubec (Cebu spelled backwards). Her idyllic childhood is associated with her father, an engineer who was already in his fifties when she was born. Brainard was the youngest of four children. Her father died when she was nine. To cope with the loss of the father figure, she started writing journals at the age of nine. Her writing eventually evolved into essays, then short stories, then novels. She is the author and editor of a dozen books, 250 published essays and three-dozen stories. From 1968 to 1981, she worked in the area of communications as a documentary scriptwriter, fundraiser and as an assistant director for a non-profit organization that included responsibilities in public relations and development. Since 1981, she has worked as a freelance writer. She has taught in the Animation Department at the University of Southern California. She teaches creative writing at the UCLA-Extension Writers Program. She once wrote a bi-monthly column, Filipina American Perspective for the Philippine American News, a newspaper in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1988. She was a founding member and past officer of Philippine American Women Writers and Artists (PAWWA). She is a member of PEN America. As an author, editor, and teacher, Brainard is like the epic storyteller, Yvonne, in her internationally-acclaimed novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept. She promotes Filipino-

American writers and Filipino-American literature so that other readers may learn, recover and remember. Her works can be found in periodicals such as Focus Philippines, Philippine Graphic, Mr. and Mrs. Magazine, Katipunan, Amerasia Journal, Bamboo Ridge and The California Examiner among many others. Her stories have been anthologized in the pages of Making Waves (1989), Forbidden Fruit (1992), Songs of Ourselves (1994), On a Bed of Rice (1995), "Pinay: Autobiographical Narratives by Women Writers, 1926-1998" (Ateneo 2000), "Asian American Literature" (Glencoe McGraw-Hill 2001) and many others. Brainard immigrated to America in 1968 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1972. She eventually married Lauren Brainard, whom she had met in the Philippines when he was serving in the U.S. Peace Corps. The couple settled in Santa Monica, California where they have three sons namely Christopher, Alexander, and Andrew

Her Novels and Short Story Collections

Magdalena (novel, Plain View Press, 2002) Acapulco at Sunset and other Stories (short story collection, Anvil, 1995) When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (novel, Dutton, 1994), which first appeared as Song of Yvonne, (New Day Publishers, 1991) (Plume paperback, 1995), (University of Michigan Press, 1999) "Gokkusagi Tanricasi Agladginda" (Turkish edition of "When the Rainbow Goddess Wept" Bilge Kultur Sanat, translated by Fusun Talay, 2001) Woman With Horns and Other Stories (short story collection, New Day Publishers, 1988)[1][2][3][4][5]

Her works as editor of short story collections

Ala Carte Food and Fiction (Anvil, 2007), co-edited with Marily Y. Orosa Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults (PALH & Anvil, 2003) Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America (Anvil, 1998) The Beginning and Other Asian Folktales (1995) Fiction by Filipinos in America (New Day, 1993) Seven Stories from Seven Sisters: A Collection of Philippine Folktales (1992)

Her essays and non-fiction collections

Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters" (Anvil, 2009), co-edited with Marily Y. Orosa Fundamentals of Creative Writing" (Anvil, 2009) Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls" (Anvil, 2005), co-edited with Marily Y. Orosa Cecilia's Diary: 1962-1969 (memoir, Anvil, 2003) Journey of 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of Philippine Independence (PAWWA, 1999), co-edited with Edmundo F. Litton Philippine Woman in America (New Day Publishers, 1991)

Her awards

Gourmand Award, for Ala Carte Food & Fiction (coedited with Marily Y. Orosa) (2008) Certificate of Recognition from the Cebu Provincial Government (2006) Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District (2001) Filipinas Magazine Achievement Award for Arts and Culture (2001) California State Summer School for the Arts Award (2000) Outstanding Individual Award from the City of Cebu, Philippines (1997) USIS Travel Lecture Grants (1995 & 1997)) Makati Rotarian Award (1994)

Literature Award, Filipino Women's Network (1992) City of Los Angeles Certificate of Appreciation (1992) Brody Arts Fund Fellowship (1991) Special Recognition Award, Los Angeles Board of Education (1991) City of Los Angeles Cultural Grant (1990-91) California Arts Council Artists' Fellowship in Fiction (1989-90) Honorable Mention Award of the Philippine Arts, Letters, and Media Council (PALM) for Welcome to America (1989) Recognition Award, National Citizen Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) (1987) Fortner Prize, for the story The Balete Tree (1985)

Crispin Salvador
Crispin Narciso Lupas Salvador is a fictional Filipino writer and literary hoax created by author Miguel Syjuco. Literary Character Created as a figment of the imagination of author Miguel Syjuco[1] , and featuring as a main character in Syjuco's novel Ilustrado, Crispin Salvador's existence has been believed to be real by various readers of Ilustrado -- a book comprising excerpted work "by" Salvador (memoirs, stories, interviews, essays, poems, jokes, etc.). This blurring between fact and fiction, aided by an earlier, ostensibly "factual" Wikipedia entry on Salvador, has caused intrigue and confusion amongst readers who, wondering at Ilustrado's verisimilitude, consulted Google and were led to this record of Salvador's existence. Thinking that Salvador was a person who really lived and wrote, they wondered about the quality of Syjuco's book, which was classified as fiction but which was written partly in a non-fiction format. Some readers, out of a yen to believe in the veracity of Wikipedia entries and what can be read on the Internet, declared Syjuco a liar. Other readers, perhaps out of embarrassment, dismissed the book they had just read, which had moved them sufficiently to lead them to learn more about Salvador on the Internet. SalvadorSyjuco sayswas born the youngest of three siblings (sister was Magdalena Lupas Salvador; brother was Narciso Lupas Salvador III) to Philippine politician Narciso "Junior" Salvador, Jr., and housewife Leonora Fidelia in Bacolod, Negros, in the Philippines. Novels Salvador is known for his novels which include: His first international novel, Lupang Pula (Red Earth), published in the US in 1967, about a farmer who joins the Huk Rebellion communist uprisings of 1946 to 1954; Walang Paraiso (No Paradise), published in the Philippines in 1964; and Dahil Sayo (Because of You), published in 1987, a massive account of the rise and fall of the Marcoses. Also amongst Salvadors most significant contributions to Philippine literature are Manila Noir, the most famous of his crime novels concerning the detective Antonio Astig; the Master of the Seas series about the saga of the Limahong and his Spanish adversary Juan de Salcedo; the Kaputol (Brothers) trilogy, about the adventures and coming-of-age of three adolescent boys in Martial-law-era Quezon City; his 1976 rock and roll novel, The Cool Kids of Death, adapted his experiences in the late1960s Manila-based conceptual-art rock band, Mga Jakoleros; and his popular Europa quartet (Jour, Night, Vida and Amore), which follows the life of a young mestizo gadabout in

1950s Paris, London, Barcelona and Florence. Also popular in the 1970s was the recently out-of-print travel guide, My Philippine Islands (with 80 colour plates). In 1992, Salvador published his memoir, Autoplagiarist, in which he attempted to use his lifes story to describe a history of the Philippines from the advent of World War II to the end of the millennium. Salvador was also known for his milestone essay (November 1968, Philippines Free Press) Nobody Loves a Feminist, which elicited an uproarious reception that thrust him into the consciousness of Philippine popular culture. Additionally, his short story Matador, published in The New Yorker magazine in 1972, confirmed him as arrived on the global literary scene.

Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo (born Cristina Pantoja on 21 August 1944) is an award-winning Filipina fictionist, critic and pioneering writer of creative nonfiction. Pantoja-Hidalgo is a high school valedictorian of St. Paul College Quezon City. She received both her Bachelor of Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters)Ph. B. (1964) magna cum laude and MA in Literature (1967) meritissimo from the University of Santo Tomas. She later received a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines in 1993. She is an Associate for Fiction at the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC). She previously served U.P. as Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing, Director of the University of the Philippines Press and coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the U.P. Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters. Pantoja-Hidalgo is currently Vice President for Public Affairs and Professor of English, comparative literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines. Pantoja-Hidalgo has been writing for Philippine newspapers and magazines since the age of fifteen. She has worked as a writer, editor and teacher in Thailand, Lebanon, Korea, Myanmar (Burma) and New York, U.S.A. Her interesting lifestyle, the result of her husband's fifteen-year connection with UNICEF, is reflected in her writing. Pantoja-Hidalgo was originally best known for an unusual kind of autobiographical/travel writing, which includes Sojourns (1984), Skyscrapers, Celadon and Kimchi (1993), I Remember (1991) and The Path of the Heart (1994). Pantoja-Hidalgo later won numerous other prizes for her fiction, creative nonfiction, literary scholarship and edited anthologies. She has frequently published many of her creative and critical manuscripts in major publications in Finland, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States. Besides travel essays, Hidalgo has a collection of personal essays, The Path of Heart (1994), and Coming Home (1997). She has also edited several anthologies with the help of her colleagues from the University of the Philippines such as: Philippine Post-Colonial Studies: Essays on Language and Literature which she did with Priscelina Patajo-Legasto and The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction with Gemino Abad. She has encouraged many aspiring writers efforts by editing their works: Shaking the Family Tree (1998) and Why I Travel and Other Essays by Fourteen Women (2000)

with Erlinda Panlilio. Hidalgo found the idea of writing short and simple initiation stories appealing. It reflects in her collection of short stories: Ballad of a Lost Season and Other Stories (1987), Tales for a Rainy Night (1993), Where Only the Moon Rages: Nine Tales (1994), Catch a Falling Star (1999) and the most recent one Sky Blue After The Rain: Selected Stories and Tales (2005). Before and after her fifteen years abroad, Hidalgo was a teacher first at the University of Santo Tomas and later at the University of the Philippines. Completing the requirements for her doctoral degree on Comparative Literature, Hidalgo has found many opportunities to read Literary Theory as well as put these into practice in her own works. Hidalgo claimed that she had never considered herself a literary critic, but just the same, she found it useful to collect five of her critical essays in A Gentle Subversion: Essays on Philippine Fiction in English (1998).

Hidalgo's critical essays, which reflects her interest in fictional writing by Filipino women, serves a much-needed contribution to a developing body of feminist scholarship in the country today. Works Short Fiction

Ballad of a Lost Season, 1987; Tales for a Rainy Night, 1993 ; Where Only the Moon Rages, 1994; Catch a Falling Star, 1999 Sky Blue After The Rain: Selected Stories and Tales , 2005

Novels

Recuerdo, 1996; Book of Dreams, 2001

Essays / Creative Non-fiction

Sojourns, 1984 Five Years in a Forgotten Land: A Burmese Notebook, 1991 I Remember...Travel Essays, 1992 Skyscrapers, Celadon and Kimchi: A Korean Notebook, 1993; The Path of the Heart, 1994; Coming Home, 1998

Literary Criticism

Woman Writing: Home and Exile in the Autobiographical Narratives of Filipino Women, 1994; A Gentle Subversion: Essays on Philippine Fiction, 1998

Anthologies (as editor)

Selections from Contemporary Philippine Literature in English, 1971 Philippine Post-Colonial Studies, 1993 (coedited with Priscelina Patajo-Legasto) The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction: 1995, 1996 Shaking the Family Tree, 1998 An Edith Tiempo Reader, 1999 The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction: 1997, 1999 Pinay: Autobiographical Narratives by Women Writers, 1926-1998, 2000 Why I Travel and Other Essays, 2000

Sleepless in Manila: Essays on Insomnia by Insomniacs, 2003 My Fair Maladies, 2005

Textbooks

Creative Nonfiction: A Manual for Filipino Writers, 2003 Creative Nonfiction: A Reader, 2003

Claro M. Recto
Claro Mayo Recto, Jr. (February 8, 1890 October 2, 1960), was a Filipino politician, jurist, poet and one of the foremost statesmen of his generation. He is remembered mainly for his nationalism, for "the impact of his patriotic convictions on modern political thought".[1] He was born in Tiong, Tayabas (now known as Quezon province) of educated, upper middle-class parents, namely Claro Recto [Sr.] of Rosario, Batangas, and Micaela Mayo of Lipa, Batangas. He studied Latin at the Instituto de Rizal in Lipa, Batangas from 1900 to 1901. Further schooling was at the Colegio del Sagrado Corazn of Don Sebastin Virrey. Hemoved to Manila to study at the Ateneo de Manila where he consistently obtained outstanding scholastic grades, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree maxima cum laude. He received a Masters of Laws degree from the University of Santo Toms. Claro M. Recto died of a heart attack in Rome, Italy, on October 2, 1960, while on a cultural mission, and en route to Spain, where he was to fulfill a series of speaking engagements. The US Central Intelligence Agency is suspected of involvement in his death. Recto, who had no known heart disease, met with two mysterious "Caucasians" wearing business suits before he died. US government documents later showed that a plan to murder Recto with a vial of poison was discussed by CIA Chief of Station Ralph Lovett and the US Ambassador to the Philippines Admiral Raymond Spruance years earlier.[7][8]\ Recto was married to Aurora Reyes, with whom he had two sons. He had four children in his first marriage with Angeles Silos. Speeches and writings

A realistic economic policy for the Philippines. Speech delivered at the Philippine Columbian Association, Sept. 26, 1956. ISBN B0007KCFEM On the Formosa Question, 1955 ISBN B0007JI5DI United States-Philippine Relations, 1935-1960. Alicia Benitez, ed. University of Hawaii, 1964. Three years of enemy occupation: The issue of political collaboration in the Philippines. Filipiniana series, 1985 Filipiana reprint. ISBN B0007K1JRG Our trade relations with the United States, 1954 ISBN B0007K8LS6 The evil of religious test in a democracy, 1960 ISBN B0007K4Y8W Solo entre las sombres: Drama en un acto y en prosa, 1917; reprinted 1999 ISBN 971555-306-0

Asiatic monroeism and other essays: Articles of debate, 1930 ISBN B0008A5354 The law of belligerent occupation and the effect of the change of sovereignty on the commonwealth treason law: With particular reference to the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1946 Our lingering colonial complex, a speech before the Baguio Press Association, 1951 The Quirino junket: an Objective Appraisal, 1949 ISBN B0007K4A7W The Philippine survival: Nationalist essays by Claro M. Recto, 1982 Claro Recto on our Constitution, Constitutional Amendments and the Constitutional Convention of 1991

Carlos P. Romulo
Carlos Pea Rmulo (14 January 1899, Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines 15 December 1985, Manila, Philippines) was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He is the co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. He graduated from the University of the Philippines, (BA) 1918; Columbia University, New York City, (MA), 1921, Received from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa), 1935; Rollins College, Florida, Doctor of Literature (Honoris Causa), 1946; University of Athens, Greece, Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa), 1948, University of the Philippines, Honorary Doctor of 'Laws, April 1949, Harvard University, Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa, 1950. Rmulo served eight Philippine presidents, from Manuel L. Quezon to Ferdinand Marcos, as a cabinet member or as the countrys representative to the United States and to the United Nations. He served as the President of the Fourth Session of United Nations General Assembly from 19491950, and chairman of the United Nations Security Council. He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first non-American to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942. The Pulitzer Prize website says Carlos P. Romulo of Philippine Herald was awarded "For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia." Books

I Saw the Fall of The Philippines Mother America My Brother Americans I See The Philippines Rise The United Crusade in Asia (The John Day Company, 1955; about the 1953 presidential election campaign of Ramon Magsaysay) The Meaning of Bandung The Magsaysay Story (with Marvin M. Gray, The John Day Company 1956, updated re-edition by Pocket Books, Special Student Edition, SP-18, December 1957; biography of Ramon Magsaysay, Pocket Books edition updated with an additional chapter on Magsaysay's death)

Last Man off Bataan (Romulo's experience during the Japanese Plane bombings.) In April 1955 he led the Philippines' delegation to the Asian-African Conference at Bandung. Rmulo, in all, wrote and published 18 books, which included The United (novel), I Walked with Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother America and I See the Philippines Rise (war-time memoirs). He died, at 86, in Manila on 15 December 1985 and was buried in the Heroes Cemetery (Libingan ng mga Bayani). He was honored as the Philippines greatest diplomat in the 20th Century.[citation needed] In 1980, he was extolled by United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim as "Mr. United Nations" for his valuable services to the United Nations and his dedication to freedom and world peace.

I Walked with Heroes (autobiography)

Damiana Eugenio
Damiana L. Eugenio is a Filipino female author and professor who is known as the Mother of Philippine Folklore, a title she received in 1986. Apart from teaching at the University of the Philippines, she has several publications in the field of Philippine folklore, among them is a series of seven books which she compiled and edited. Education Eugenio was a BSE degree holder and a cum laude graduate from the University of the Philippines. She obtained her M.A. degree in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. degree from the University of California in Los Angeles, where she made studies regarding folklore. She is a professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature for the College of Arts and Letters at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. She also held the office of vice president for the External Affairs of the Philippine Folklore Society, was previously a chairman of the Division of Humanities, and corporate secretary of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NCRP). Works

Philippine Proverb Lore (1975) Awit and Korido: A Study of Fifty Philippine Metrical Romances in Relation to Their Sources and Analogues (1965) Philippine Folk Literature: An Anthology (1981) Philippine Folk Literature: An Anthology (1982) Philippine Folk literature: The Legends (Philippine Folk Literature Series, 1987) Awit and Corrido (July 1988) Awit and Corrido: Philippine Metrical Romances (August 1988) Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths (Philippine Folk Literature Series, Volume 2, January 1994) Philippine Folk Literature: The Riddles (Philippine Folk Literature Series, Volume. 5, September 1995) Philippine Folk Literature: An Anthology (Philippine Folk Literature, May 31, 2008)

Description

Eugenios works were described as volumes that are thorough and professional in presentation and as being valuable resources for scholars studying the Philippines and

comparative folklore. Written in the English-language, her Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths (1993) served as a compendium that promotes "national and international access to Filipino folklore," were gathered from written sources rather than collected oral variants, and was intended to foster interest in the subject matter. In this work, Eugenio also presented the collected narratives in a proper scholarly context that also justified the inclusion of the legends of saints, as opposed to being a pure collection of myths. This particular volume was also described as a recommended work for "any individual interested in issues of Filipino worldviews and value systems, to any scholar investigating myths across cultures, and to anyone who enjoys the insights that a culture's narratives provide."

Domingo G. Landicho
Domingo Goan Landicho (also called "Domeng," born 4 August 1939), is a Philippine writer and academic. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts and BS in Journalism degrees from the Lyceum of the Philippines, and an MA in Education at the National Teachers College. He later earned his Bachelor of Laws degree at Lyceum. In 1994, he obtained his Ph.D in Filipinology from the University of the Philippines, where he has served as Writer-in-Residence and professor at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature and associate director for criticism at the Institute of Creative Writing. He was accorded Professor Emeritus stature by the University of the Philippines in 2005. He was Director for Asia of Poet Laureate International, member of PEN International, and honorary member of International Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa. He received numerous awards such as several Palancas, CCP Balagtas Awards, KADIPAN Literary Contest, Catholic Mass Media Awards, and Institute of National Language Awards. He is currently the Editor-In-Chief of Tanod Publication. Publications

Paglalakbay, Mga Piling Tula (1974) Himagsik, Mga Nagkagantimpalang Kuwento (1972) Sa Bagwis at Sigwa (1976) Nio Engkantado (1979) Alay (Katipunan ng mga Piling Tula) (1984) Tula sa Ating Panahon (1989) Dupluhang Bayan at Dalawa pang Tula (1990) Apoy at Unos (Katipunan ng mga Tulang Popular) (1993) Putong (2001) Anak ng Lupa

Literary awards & recognition

S.E.A. Write Award 2003 Awardee Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature o 1967 Short Story Second Prize: Talulot sa Pagas na Lupa" o 1968- Short Story Third Prize: "Himagsik ni Emmanuel Lazaro" o 1969- Short Story Third Prize: Elias at Salome o 1970 Short Story Third Prize : Dugo sa Kanyang Pagsilang o 1975 - Short Story First Prize : "Huwag Mong Tangisan Ang Kamatayan ng Isang Pilipino sa Dibdib ng Niyebe" o 1976 - Maikiling Kuwento Third Prize: Ang Pangarap ni Isis o 1993 Grand Prize Novel : Bulaklak ng Maynila o 1998 - Essay in Filipino Third Prize: "Dyipni" o 2005 - Short Story in Filipino Second Prize: "Anay Sa Dagat Na Asul"

Danton Remoto
Danton R. Remoto (born March 25, 1963) is a Filipino writer, essayist, reporter, editor, columnist, and professor. Remoto was a first prize recipient at the ASEAN Letter-Writing Contest for Young People. The award made Remoto a scholar at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. As a professor, Remoto teaches English at the Ateneo de Manila University. Remoto is the chairman of Ang Ladlad, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines. Remoto was born in Basa Air Base in Pampanga province. Education In 1983, Remoto obtained his AB in Interdisciplinary Studies. In 1989, while under the Robert Southwell scholarship, Remoto gained his MA degree in English Literature. In 1990, while under the British Council Fellowship, Remoto received his Master of Philosophy in Publishing Studies from the University of Stirling in Scotland. In 2000, Remoto was given the Fulbright Scholarship for Rutgers University in the United States. In 2003, Remoto obtained a fellowship from the Asian Scholarship Foundation at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia). In 2004, Remoto obtained a fellowship from the Asian Scholarship Foundation at the National University of Singapore. In March 2009, Remoto obtained a PhD in English Studies with a major in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines Works Remotos writings include the following: Poetry

Skin, Voices, Faces (1991) Black Silk Pajamas / Poems in English and Filipino (1996) Pulotgata; The Love Poems (2004)

Essays

Seduction and Solitude X-Factor Gaydar Buhay Bading Rampa: Mga Sanaysay

Career From 1986, Remoto worked as a writer, reporter, editor, and columnist for the Philippine Press. In 1989, Remoto edited Alfredo Navarro Salangas Buena Vista, a collection of poetry and fiction. On the same year, Remoto was a co-editor of Gems in Philippine Literature. In 1994, Remoto became a Local Fellow for Poetry the UP Creative Writing Center. Together with J. Neil Garcia, Remoto edited the so-called Ladlad (Out of the Closet) series, a succession of gay literature

Francisco Arcellana
Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 16, 1916. Arcellana already had ambitions of becoming a writer during his years in the elementary. His actual writing, however, started when he became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. Arcellana continued writing in various school papers at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He later on received a Rockfeller Grant and became a fellow in creative writing the University of Iowa and Breadloaf's writers conference from 1956- 1957. He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino short story in English. Arcellana pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form within Filipino literature. His works are now often taught in tertiary-level-syllabi in the Philippines. Many of his works were translated into Tagalog, Malaysian, Russian, Italian, and German. Arcellana won 2nd place in 1951 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with his short story, "The Flowers of May." 14 of his short stories were also included in Jose Garcia Villa's Honor Roll from 1928 to 1939. His major achievements included the first award in art criticism from the Art Association of the Philippines in 1954, the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award from the city government of Manila in 1981, and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for English fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipino (UMPIL) in 1988. Francisco Arcellana was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines in Literature in 1990. Arcellana died in 2002. As a National Artist, he received a state funeral at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. His grandson Liam Hertzsprung performed a piano concert in 2006 dedicated to him. Arcellana's published books include:

Selected Stories (1962) Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977) The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990).

Francisco Balagtas
Francisco Baltazar (April 2, 1788 February 20, 1862), known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic, Florante at Laura, is regarded as his defining work. Francisco Baltazar was born on April 2, 1788 to Juana de la Cruz and Juan Baltazar in Barrio Panginay, Bigaa, Bulacan. He studied in a parochial school in Bigaa. Francisco later worked as houseboy for the Trinidad family in Tondo, Manila. The master of the house let him to study Technology, Philosophy, Humanities, and Canon law at the Colegio de San Jos where two of his former teachers were Dr. Mariano Pilapil and Jos de la Cruz. Awards and Titles Francisco entitled as the "Ama ng Balagtasan" A Balagtasan is a debate in a form of a poem, the notable characters on it is the Tagapagsalaysay (narrator), The Lakandiwa and the Lakambini, (Gentlemen and Lady) Works 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Orosmn at Zafira - a comedy in four parts Don Nuo at Selinda - a comedy in three parts Auredato at Astrome - a comedy in three parts Clara Belmore - a comedy in three parts Abdol at Misereanan - a comedy, staged by Abucay in 1857 Bayaceto at Dorslica - a comedy in three parts, staged at Udyong on September 27, 1857 7. Alamansor at Rosalinda - a comedy staged at Udyong during the town's feast 8. La India elegante y el negrito amante - a short play in one part 9. Nudo gordeano 10. Rodolfo at Rosemonda 11. Mahomet at Constanza 12. Claus (translated into Tagalog from Latin) 13. Florante at Laura, Balagtas' masterpiece

Life as a poet Balagtas learned to write poetry from Jos de la Cruz (Huseng Sisiw), one of the most famous poets of Tondo. It was de la Cruz himself who personally challenged Balagtas to improve his writing. (source: Talambuhay ng mga Bayani, for Grade 6 textbook) In 1935, Balagtas moved to Pandacan, where he met Mara Asuncin Rivera, who would effectively serve as the muse for his future works. She is referenced in Florante at Laura as 'Cecilio' and 'MAR'. Balagtas' affections for Celia were challenged by the influential Mariano Capule. Capule won the battle for Celia when he used his wealth to get Balagtas imprisoned under the accusation that he ordered a servant girl's head be shaved. It was here that he wrote Florante at LauraIn fact, the events of this poem were meant to parallel his own situation. He wrote his poems in Tagalog, during an age when Filipino writing was predominantly written in Spanish. Balagtas published Florante at Laura upon his release in 1838. He moved to Balanga, Bataan in 1840 where he served as the assistant to the Justice of peace and later, in 1856, as the Major Lieutenant. He was also appointed as the translator of the court. He married Juana Tiambeng on July 22, 1842 and had eleven children. He died on February 20,1862 at the age of 74. Upon his deathbed, he asked a favor that none of his children become poets like him, who had suffered under his gift as well as under others. He even went as far as to tell them it would be better to cut their hands off than let them be writers. Balagtas is so greatly revered in the Philippines that the term for Filipino debate in extemporaneous verse is named for him: balagtasan. Legacy An elementary school was erected in honor of Balagtas, the Francisco Balagtas Elementary School (FBES), located along Alvarez Street in Santa Cruz, Manila. There is also a plaza and park (Plaza Balagtas) erected in Pandacan, Manila while most of the streets were named after various Florante at Laura characters in honor of Francisco Balagtas.

Florentino Collantes
Florentino Collantes (Oct. 16, 1896-July 15, 1951) was a Filipino poet who was among the writers who spearheaded a revival of interest in Tagalog literature in the Philippines in the 20th century. Collantes was born in the village of Dampol in Pulilan, Bulacan to Toribio Collantes of Baliwag, Bulacan and Manuela Tancioco of Pulilan. He completed his primary and secondary schooling in Malolos, Bulacan. As a teenager, Collantes displayed an avid interest in literature and memorized epic poems in Spanish ('corridos') and Tagalog ('awits'). He is known to have committed to memory long excerpts from versified stories on the passion of Jesus Christ, known as 'pasion', that are traditionally sung in public during Holy Week in the Philippines. He was also a skilled practitioner of 'duplo', or a dramatic poetical joust that was a popular form of entertainment in the Philippines until the 1950s. At the age of 15, he already read almost all ('awits'), ('dula') and corido. Due to poverty, he only manages to read books and journals by helping to sell some "awits" and "coridos" during fiestas and he uses the money he earns to borrow some journals from a nearby store. Maturity As an adult, Collantes worked in the government's Bureau of Lands where he was given a number of provincial assignments that gave him the opportunity to learn the Kapampangan, Ilocano and Visayan languages. His interest in poetry led him to write for the defunct Tagalog publications Buntot Pagi, Pagkakaisa and Watawat. He would later be an editor of the defunct publications Pakak, Balagtas, Lintik and Ang Bansa. In 1925, he was asked to join a group of Tagalog writers to organize an event to mark the birth anniversary of the Tagalog poet Francisco Balagtas on April 2. The group included the writers Rosa Sevilla and Jose Corazon de Jesus. The group decided to change the format of the traditional duplo and rename it balagtasan, in honor of Balagtas. The first balagtasan was held in Tayuman, Manila on April 6, 1925.

Several pairs of poets joined the literary joust but Collantes and De Jesus were the most popular. The organizers pitted the two in a rivalry that culminated in a contest for the title of 'Hari ng Balagtasan' (King of the Balagtasan). Poet of the people Although De Jesus was acclaimed 'Hari ng Balagtasan', Collantes also gained national fame as a poet. His most memorable work is 'Ang Lumang Simbahan', which was so popular that he expanded it into a novel that was later turned into a movie starring Mary Walter. The movie is now acclaimed as a classic in Philippine cinema. His other works that are now taught in schools all over the Philippines are 'Ang Magsasaka' (The Farmer), 'Pangarap sa Bagong Kasal' (Dream For The Newly-Weds), 'Mahalin Ang Atin' (Love Our Own), 'Ang Tulisan' (The Bandit) and 'Ang Labindalawang Kuba' (The Twelve Hunchbacks). On July 4, 1950, Collantes was conferred the title 'Makata ng Bayan' (Poet of the People) by President Elpidio Quirino. Collantes died on July 15, 1951 at the age of 55. He was survived by his wife Sixta Tancioco and eight children.

Gregorio C. Brillantes
Gregorio C. Brillantes, a Palanca Award Hall of Famer and a multi-awarded fiction writer, is one of the Philippines' most popular writers in English. Known for his sophisticated and elegant style, he has been compared to James Joyce. He often writes about individuals under thirty, adolescent or post adolescent ones who struggle with alienation from family, society and from themselves. His earlier collection of short stories earned him the title of the "Catholic Writer". But elements of the fantastic also come in his works. In the 2006 Graphic/Fiction Awards, the main local sponsor of the contest, specialty book shop Fully Booked, acknowledged Brillantes as one of the godfathers of fantastic literature in English by naming the first category the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose. Brillantes is a native of Camiling, Tarlac. He obtained his Litt. B. degree in the Ateneo de Manila University. He has edited Sunburst, The Manila Review, Focus, Asia-Philippines Leader and the Philippines Free Press. Among his published collections of short stories are:

The Distance to Andromeda and Other Stories, The Apollo Centennial, Help, and On a Clear Day in November Shortly Before the Millennium, Stories for a Quarter Century. He also has published collections of essays: Looking for Rizal in Madrid, Chronicles of Interesting Times, and The Cardinal's Sins, the General's Cross, the Martyr's Testimony and other Affirmations. He acted as one of the judges of the Philippine Graphic Novel Awards in 2007.

Gilda Cordero-Fernando
Gilda Cordero-Fernando is a multiawarded writer, publisher and cultural icon from the Philippines. She was born in Manila, has a B.A. from St. Theresas College-Manila, and an M.A. from the Ateneo de Manila University. Cordero-Fernando has two landmark collection of short stories: The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker (1962) and A Wilderness of Sweets (1973). These books have been compiled and reissued later as Story Collection (1994). Another book, Philippine Food and Life, was published in 1992. Together with Alfredo Roces, Cordero-Fernando worked on Filipino Heritage, a 10volume study on Philippine history and culture published by Lahing Pilipino in 1978. Afterwards, she founded GCF Books which published a dozen titles that deal with various aspects of Philippine culture and society. She received several Carlos Palanca and Philippines Free Press awards for her stories. In 1994, she received a Cultural Center of the Philippines (Gawad CCP) for her lifetime achievements in literature and publishing.

Cordero-Fernando has also worn numerous other hats as a visual artist, fashion designer, playwright, art curator and producer. In February 2000, she produced a hugely successful extravaganza entitled Luna: An Aswang Romance.....

Guillermo Gmez Rivera

Guillermo Gmez Rivera (born September 12, 1936) is a Filipino writer, journalist, poet, playwright, historian, linguist, dance instructor, and scholar of Spanish and British descent from the Province of Iloilo. Gmez Rivera is an academic director of the prestigious Academia Filipina de la Lengua Espaola (Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language), the local branch of the renowned Real Academia Espaola based in Madrid, Spain, and part of the Asociacin de Academias de la Lengua Espaola (Association of Spanish Language Academies). He is a Premio Zbel awardee and a former Commission on the Filipino Language Committee Secretary of the Philippine Constitutional Convention (1971-73). He is also a teacher of various Spanish dances, and is considered the undisputed maestro of Flamenco in the Philippines. In addition to his contributions to Philippine literature and history, Gmez is also an accomplished linguist and polyglot. He speaks and writes fluently in his native Hiligaynon as well as in English and Tagalog. Aside from being an acclaimed master of the Spanish language in the Philippines, he is also conversant in French, Italian, Portuguese, Kinaray-a, and Cebuano, and has made an extensive study of the Visayan and Chabacano languages. Gmez, as he is fondly called by his friends, students, and contemporaries, hails from Dingle, Iloilo on the southeast portion of Panay Island. He is a product of the University of San Agustin in Iloilo City, where he earned degrees in Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Bachelor of Science in Education. In 1967, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Colegio de San Juan de Letrn.

Gmez has been a staunch advocate of Filipino-Hispanic language and culture all his life. Most of his written works are aimed towards the preservation of the Filipino-Hispanic way of life, particularly the Spanish language. In Adamson University, he gained notoriety as a teacher with strong convictions. It is claimed by some that he inspired true nationalism and Filipinism among several of his students, based on the original Hispanic identity of the Philippines. While teaching in Adamson, he also worked for San Miguel Corporation when the said conglomerate was still at the helm of Andrs Soriano III, a Filipino of Spanish descent. He was also the National Language Committee Secretary of the Philippine Constitutional Convention (19711973) during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos. As part of the committee, he fought for Tagalog to become the country's national language. In the same convention, Gmez teamed up with other nationalists to preserve Spanish as one of the country's official languages. Spanish, however, later was made an optional language (together with Arabic) from the Freedom Constitution of 1987 when Corazn Aquino took over from where former strongman Marcos had left.

He is a grandnephew of Guillermo Gmez Windham, a famous Filipino writer and former Philippine Customs Commissioner during the American Occupation. Gmez Windham was the first Filipino to have been awarded a Premio Zbel medal in 1922. He has British descent. Gmez has two children: Marin and Guillermo Gmez Ordez. He currently resides in Makati City. He has transformed his home into a virtual Spanish dance studio and library of Filipiniana materials. Educator Gmez also spent several years teaching Spanish grammar, Philippine history, and philosophy in Adamson University. For a time, he also served as the head of the Adamson's Spanish Department. He retired from the university in 2001, but he still teaches Flamenco in his home and in Steps Dance Studio in Makati. He occasionally offers Spanish language tutorials. During his teaching stint, he was also the president of Corporacin Nacional de Profesores en Espaol (CONAPE), an organization of Filipino educators who teach the Spanish language. Media Gmez's career in journalism started with the magazine El maestro during the 1960s. The magazine's aim was to aid the predicament of the Filipino teacher in Spanish. Aside from being the current editor of Nueva era, the only existing Spanish newspaper in the Philippines today, he also edits The Listening Post and The Tagalog Chronicle. These three newspapers are published weekly and are only accessible via subscription. Gmez also released an LP back in 1960 when he was still the producer of La Voz Hispanofilipina, a radio program of DZRH. He made research about some "lost" Filipino

songs sung in Spanish during the Spanish colonization. He reintroduced the songs through recording. The successful LP was entitled Nostalgia Filipina. He was the one who sang in all of the songs. He was accompanied by a rondalla. In 1997, he was a segment host of ABS-CBN's defunct early morning program Alas Singko Y Medya. In the said show, he hosted a five-minute Spanish lesson. In 2006, he was urged by some friends to reproduce the said LP. The Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation funded this project. The LP, digitally mastered, was launched in Instituto Cervantes de Manila on 14 August 2006.

Greg Laconsay
Gregorio Greg C. Laconsay (born March 12, 1931) is a Filipino-Ilocano editor and writer in the Philippines. He was the former chief editor for two prominent literary magazines in the Philippines, namely the Ilocano-language Bannawag and the Tagalog-language Liwayway. Personal life Greg Laconsay was born in Natividad, Pangasinan. Literary career In 1966, Laconsay was the chief editor for the magazine Bannawag. He became an assistant director for editorials at Liwayway Publishing, Inc., and later became the full-pledged overall director for the chain of Liwayway publications beginning 1977. He retired in 1991. He received twenty seven major awards and recognition from different organizations in the Philippines and abroad. He also became a member of the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS). Works Dictionaries

Iluko-English-Tagalog Dictionary (1993)[4] Simplified Iluko Grammar (2005)

Ilocano novels

Ti Kabusor (1974) Ti Love Story ni Theresa (1971) - Theresa's Love Story

Nalagda a Cari (1951) Rebelde (1957) - Rebel Villa Verde (1959) - Green Valley Sacramento (1960) - Sacrament Purisima Concepcion (1961) - Immaculate Concepcion Kadena Perpetua (1961) - Perpetual Chain Kasimpungalan (1962) Rupanrupa (1963) Ti Ubing nga Agpateg iti Sangapirgis a Papel (1964) Dawel (1964) Littik (1965) Samuel (1966) Dagiti Agtawid (1967) Ti Biddut (1968) Nympho (1971)

Genoveva Matute
Genoveva Edroza-Matute (January 3, 1915 March 21, 2009) was a Filipino author. In 1951, she was the recipient of the first ever Palanca Award for Short Story in Filipino, for her short story "Kuwento ni Mabuti", which has been cited as the most anthologized Tagalog language short-story. Life Matute was a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas.[2] She worked in the academe for 46 years, retiring in 1980 as the head of the Department of Filipino at the Philippine Normal College. She also served as the Dean of Instruction of the same university.[2] For her short stories, Matute would win a total of four Palanca Awards. She won First Prize in 1951 for Kuwento ni Mabuti, in 1955 for "Paglalayag sa Puso ng Isang Bata", and in 1961 for "Parusa". In 2005, Matute was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Matute was married to Epifanio Gar. Matute, who created the popular Filipino radio program Kuwentong Kutsero in the 1950s. She was likewise active in writing radio plays and productions in the 1950s.

Horacio de la Costa
Horacio de la Costa (May 9, 1916 March 20, 1977) was the first Filipino Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines, and a recognized authority in Philippine and Asian culture and history. A brilliant writer, scholar, and historian, Horacio de la Costa was born in Maban, Quezon on May 9, 1916 to Judge Sixto de la Costa and Emiliana Villamayor. Ordained a Jesuit priest at the age of 30, he became, at age 55, the first Filipino provincial superior of this religious order, the Society of Jesus. Training De la Costa first attended the public elementary school in Batangas before moving on to the Ateneo de Manila, where he distinguished himself for academic excellence and student leadership, particularly as a writer and, later, as editor of the Guidon, the campus newspaper. After earning there his Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1935, he entered the Society of Jesus at the Sacred Heart Novitiate in Novaliches, where he completed his masters degree. Afterward, he went back to the Ateneo to teach philosophy and history for two years. During this time, he also worked as a writer and radio talent for the Chesteron Evidence Guild, more specifically, the "Commonwealth Hour", for which he created the character of Teban, the calesa diver, at the height of the controversy over the 1940 divorce bill. The program evolved into "Kuwentong Kutsero", consisting of satirical tales dealing mostly with life in Manila. Authorship

De la Costa was the author of a number of books, particularly on Philippine culture and history, which revealed his nationalistic bent, among which are:

The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581-1768 The Trial of Dr. Rizal, an edited translation of W.E. Retanas transcription of the official Spanish documents Recent Oriental History Readings in Philippines History The Background of Nationalism, and Other Essays Asia and the Philippines

He also contributed numerous articles on these subjects to various local and foreign scholarly publications, such as Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Review, Bulletin of the Philippine Historical Association, Hispanic American Historical Review, Comment, Science Review, Theological Studies, and Philippine Studies. The Catholic Encyclopedia carries his article on the Philippines. In 1965, he was presented the Republic Heritage Award by the then Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal for his historical writings. In 1971 he became General Assistant to the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Pedro Arrupe, in Rome. Fr. de le Costa was one of the founding members of the Philippine Academy of Science and Humanities, as well as the International Association of Historians of Asia. He was also a member of the National Research Council of the Philippines, Philippine Bibliographical Society, Philippine Historical Association and the National Historical Society of the National Historical Commission.

Justino Romea
Justino Tining R. Romea was a Filipino composer, writer, director, musical arranger, poet and journalist. He composed the Awit sa Bohol or Bohol hymn and many school anthems. Biography Born in Napo, Loon, Bohol who later settled in Maribojoc with his wife Jesusa Dalugdug (also from Napo) and family because they were able to acquire a property there. Romea taught at the Bohol School of Arts and Trades (BSAT) now CVSCAFT. Romea was commissioned to pen the Bohol Provincial Hymn. It was first sung publicly by a female choir of the College of Holy Spirit of Tagbilaran City on March 1, 1970 in time for the unfurling of the Bohol Flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1970 East Visayan Athletic Association held in Tagbilaran City. On September 24, 1970, the Provincial Board passed Resolution No. 215 adopting it as the official song of the province of Bohol. As the hymn's original version was in English, the Provincial Board, a few years after, endeavored to have it translated into the vernacular. A competition was launched and the entry of Maxelende Ganade emerged as the best and was adjudged the winner. The

Boholano version was adopted by the Provincial Board in Resolution No. 151 dated September 13, 1974. Romea also composed many school anthems like University of Bohol[2] or UB Hymn, BSAT Hymn, Saint Joseph Institute of Technology in Butuan City, and he is best remembered for the love song "Ako Kang Paabuton," the folk song "Sa Daplin sa Baybayon" as well as most of the songs featured in the annual drama presentations in his native Napo for which he served as writer, director and musical arranger. Nong Tining was also a revered columnist of Bohol Chronicle. In fact, his column was in the frontpage of the Bohol Chronicle defying editing rules.

Songs Ako kang Paabuton Bohol Hymn Saint Joseph Institute of Technology (SJIT) Hymn BSAT Hymn

Jos Rizal
Dr. Jos Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda[1] (June 19, 1861 December 30, 1896, Bagumbayan), was a Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is considered a national hero of the Philippines, and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated as a Philippine holiday called Rizal Day. Rizal's 1896 military trial and execution made him a martyr of the Philippine Revolution. The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town of Calamba, Laguna, Rizal attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts. He enrolled in Medicine and Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas and then traveled alone to Madrid, Spain, where he continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid, earning the degree of Licentiate in Medicine. He attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. Rizal was a polyglot conversant in at least ten languages. He was a prolific poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El filibusterismo. These are social commentaries on the Philippines that formed the nucleus of literature that inspired dissent among peaceful reformists and spurred the militancy of armed revolutionaries against the Spanish colonial authorities.

As a political figure, Jose Rizal was the founder of La Liga Filipina, a civic organization that subsequently gave birth to the Katipunan led by Andrs Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo. He was a proponent of institutional reforms by peaceful means rather than by violent revolution. The general consensus among Rizal scholars, however, attributed his martyred death as the catalyst that precipitated the Philippine Revolution. Family Jos Rizal's parents, Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y Alejandro (18181898)[9] and Teodora Morales Alonzo Realonda y Quintos (18261911), were prosperous farmers who were granted lease of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm by the Dominicans. Rizal was the seventh child of their eleven children namely: Saturnina (Neneng) (18501913), Paciano (18511930), Narcisa (Sisa) (18521939), Olympia (Ypia) (18551887), Lucia (18571919), Mara (Biang) (18591945), Jos Protasio (18611896), Concepcion (1862 1865), Josefa (Panggoy) (18651945), Trinidad (18681951) and Soledad (Concha)(1870 1929). Education Rizal first studied under the tutelage of Justiniano Aquino Cruz in Bian, Laguna. He was sent to Manila and enrolled at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. He graduated as one of the nine students in his class declared sobresaliente or outstanding. He continued his education at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila to obtain a land surveyor and assessor's degree, and at the same time at the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters where he studied Philosophy and Letters. Upon learning that his mother was going blind, he decided to study medicine specializing in ophthalmology at the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery but did not complete the program claiming discrimination made by the Spanish Dominican friars against the native students.

Writings of Rizal Rizal was a very prolific author since young age. Among his earliest writings are El Canto de los Dioses, A la juventud filipina, Canto del viajero, Canto de Mara Clara, Me piden versos, Por la educacin, Junto al Pasig, etc. On his early writings he frequently depicted renowned Spanish explorers, kings and generals, and pictured Education (the Philippines enjoyed a free public system of education established by the Spaniards) as "the breath of life instilling charming virtue". He had even written of one of his Spanish teachers as having brought "the light of the eternal splendor". The content of his writings change considerably on Jos Rizal's most famous two novels, Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. These writings angered both the Spaniards colonial elite and some of the hispanized Filipinos due to their insulting symbolism. They are highly critical of Spanish friars and the atrocities committed in the name of the Church. Rizal's first critic was Ferdinand Blumentritt, a Czech professor and historian whose first reaction was of misgiving. Blumentritt was the grandson of the Imperial Treasurer at Vienna in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and a staunch defender of the Catholic faith. This did not dissuade him however from writing the preface of El filibusterismo after he had translated Noli me Tangere into German. Noli was published in Berlin (1887) and Fili in Ghent (1891) with funds borrowed largely from Rizal's friends. As Blumentritt had warned, these led to Rizal's prosecution as the inciter of revolution and eventually, to a military trial and execution. The intended consequence of teaching the natives where they stood brought

about an adverse reaction, as the Philippine Revolution of 1896 took off virulently thereafter. As leader of the reform movement of Filipino students in Spain, he contributed essays, allegories, poems, and editorials to the Spanish newspaper La Solidaridad in Barcelona. The core of his writings centers on liberal and progressive ideas of individual rights and freedom; specifically, rights for the Filipino people. He shared the same sentiments with members of the movement: that the Philippines is battling, in Rizal's own words, "a doublefaced Goliath"--corrupt friars and bad government. His commentaries reiterate the following agenda:[22]

That the Philippines be a province of Spain Representation in the Cortes Filipino priests instead of Spanish friars--Augustinians, Dominicans, and Franciscans--in parishes and remote sitios Freedom of assembly and speech Equal rights before the law (for both Filipino and Spanish plaintiffs)

The colonial authorities in the Philippines did not favor these reforms even if they were more openly endorsed by Spanish intellectuals like Morayta, Unamuno, Pi y Margall, and others. Other Works Rizal also tried his hand at painting and sculpture. His most famous sculpture work is "The Triumph of Science over Death", a clay sculpture composed of a naked, young woman standing on a skull while bearing a torch. The woman symbolizes the ignorance of humankind during the dark ages of history, while the torch she bears symbolizes the enlightenment science brings over the whole world. He sent the sculpture to his dear friend Blumentritt, together with another one named "The Triumph of Death over Life".

Juan S.P. Hidalgo, Jr.

Juan S.P. Hidalgo, Jr. (born July 12, 1936), is an Ilokano fictionist (short story, novel), poet, editor, translator, and painter. He was former managing editor of Bannawag, a weekly Ilokano magazine. During his 37-year stint (19611998) as senior literary editor at Bannawag, he guided, encouraged and trained young and old Ilokano writers to produce quality Iloko literary works. Hidalgo was responsible for the founding of GUMIL Filipinas (Gunglo dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano iti Filipinas). The top national organization of Iloko writers, GUMIL now boasts of chapters in Guam, Greece, California, and Hawaii. Considered by his peers as a "prodigy in Ilokano literature," Hidalgo published in 1969 the now classic Iloko anthology, "Bituen ti Rosales ken Dadduma Pay a Sarita" ("Star of Rosales and Other Stories"), a collection of 20 selected short stories. This book became, as Iloko literary critics and scholars acknowledge, the "official textbook of contemporary Iloko writers" because of its influence on the serious Iloko writer. As editor and translator, he published other anthologies of selected Iloko short stories; he translated a number of novels and short stories written in German or Japanese into Iloco.

Even as he toiled as literary editor at Bannawag and saw to it that the quality of the literary output improved, he was able to publish in the magazine some 7 novels, 3 novellas, 4 biographies about Virgin Mary, and numerous poems, short stories and essays. He started painting in 1979 and he was a founding member of the U.P. Campus Sunday Group, an association of painters at the University of the Philippines. His paintings were included in various art exhibits in Metro Manila and in the provinces. Born in Intramuros, Manila, Hidalgo spent his childhood in Rosales, Pangasinan. His parents were the late Juan Peralta Hidalgo of Dingras, Ilocos Norte and Felisa Alberto Sanchez of Tomana, Rosales, Pangasinan. He married Namnama Garma Prado of Piddig, Ilocos Norte, a former head librarian at the UP-Diliman. They have three daughters: Maria Bituen (b. 1970), Patricia Amor (b. 1971), and Marie Sol (b. 1973). [edit] Works

Novels: "Tomana" (1971), "Tarumamis" (1973), "Ti Obra Maestra" (1974) "Derraas ken Pannakatnag" (1976), "Apuy iti Ubbog ti Diro" (1977), "Dagiti Kulalanti" (1979), "Saksi ti Kaunggan" (1986) Novellas: "Ti Langitmo a Kaibatogak" (1968), Bileg (1968), "Dagiti Annak ti Init Nagsublidan iti Daga" (1978) Short Stories: "Bituen ti Rosales," "Tallo a Lallaki ken Maysa a Kari," "Dagiti Panniki ti Montalban," "Taraon dagiti Didiosen," "Proserpina," "Sharon," "Adan," "Orkidia," "Anglem," "Kampilan," "Batekan," "Propeta," "Bituen ni Namnama," "Katedral Ti Rosales" Biographies: "Birhen Maria" (1980), "Ti Mensahe ti La Salette" (1982)

Jose Maria Sison

Jose Maria Siso n (born February 8, 1939, Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, Philippines) is a writer and activist who reorganized the Communist Party of the Philippines and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy. Since August 2002, he has been classified as a "person supporting terrorism" by the United States. The European Union's second highest court ruled to delist him as a "person supporting terrorism" and reversed a decision by member governments to freeze assets Early years Jose Maria Sison was born at Cabugao, Ilocos Sur in February 8, 1939. Also a member of a prominent family with the connections to other prominent personalities like the Crisologos, Sison affirmed his background as a member of a landowning family. But during his childhood days, his inclination to the left began by listening to his barber discussing him about the Hukblahap in Ilocos, as well as studying in a public school in Ilocos (unlike his relatives) before entering Ateneo de Manila, then in Collegio de San Juan de Letran. A 1959

graduate of the University of the Philippines, Sison studied in Indonesia, before returning to the Philippines to settle as a university professor of literature. Sison also joined the Lavaite Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas as well as one of the founding members of the Socialist Party and Movement for the Advancement of Nationalism. And in 1964, he founded the Kabataang Makabayan or Patriotic Youth. This organization rallied Filipino youth against the Vietnam war, against the Marcos presidency and corrupt politicians alongside Imperialism, Bureaucrat Capitalism and Feudalism. The organization also spearheaded the studying of Maoism as part of the struggle. On December 26, 1968, he formed and chaired the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), an organization founded on Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, stemming from his experience as a youth leader and labor and land reform activist. This is known as the First Great Rectification movement where Sison and other radical youth criticized the existing Party leadership, that was run under the Moscow leaning Lava and its failure. The reestablished CPP set its general political line as two-stage revolution comprising national-democratic as the first stage then proceeding to the socialist revolution. During this period, Sison went by the nom de guerre of Amado Guerrero, meaning "beloved warrior", under which he published the manifesto Philippine Society and Revolution. In December 2007 the Communist Party of the Philippines commemorated its 39th anniversary. Jose Maria Sison confirmed its birth, at Barangay Dulacac at the tri-boundary of Alaminos, Bani and Mabini, Pangasinan, where the CPP "congress of reestablishment" was held on December 26, 1968, exactly at a hut near the house of the Navarettes, the parents-in-law of Arthur Garcia, one of the CPP founders.[6] Sison announced that communist guerillas held "cultural activities" and celebrated the 39th anniversary of the movement. After this, the old Communist Party sought to eliminate and marginalize Sison. However, the reorganized CPP had a larger base and renewed political line that attracted thousands to join its ranks.

On March 29, 1969, the CPP, along with an HMB (Huk) faction led by Bernabe Buscayno, organized the New People's Army (NPA), the guerrilla-military wing of the Party, whose insurgencies around the Philippines, particularly in the northern part of the country, persist to this day. The NPA seeks to wage a peasant-worker revolutionary war in the countryside against landlords and foreign companies. Sison was arrested during the Marcos dictatorship and was imprisoned for almost 9 years. He was subjected to several forms of torture and chained to a cot for 18 months in a solitary cell.[citation needed] His experience was described in Prison & Beyond, a book of poetry released in 1986, which won the Southeast Asia WRITE award for the Philippines. The CPP has stated for 20 years that Sison is no longer involved in operational decisions and serves from Europe in an advisory role. In 1986, after he was freed from prison, Sison embarked on a world lecture tour. In October he accepted the Southeast Asia WRITE award for a book of his poems from the Crown Prince of Thailand in Bangkok. While visiting the Netherlands three months later, he was informed that his passport had been revoked and that charges had been filed against him under the Anti-Subversion Law of the Philippines. Those charges were later dropped, as have subsequent charges filed by authorities in the Philippines. Works

2003. US Terrorism and War in the Philippines. Netherlands, Papieren Tijger 1998. Philippine Economy and Politics. Co-authored by Julieta de Lima. Philippines, Aklat ng Bayan, Inc. 1989. The Philippine Revolution : The Leader's View. With Rainer Werning. New York : Crane Russak. 1984. Prison and Beyond: Selected Poems, 1958-1983. Quezon City: Free Jose Maria Sison Committee. 1971. Philippine Society and Revolution. As Amado Guerrero. Manila: Pulang Tala. 1967. Struggle for National Demoracy. Quezon City, Progressive Publications

Jose Dalisay, Jr.

Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (born January 15, 1954) is a Filipino writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and screenplay, including 16 Palanca Awards. Dalisay was born in Romblon in 1954. He completed his primary education at La Salle Green Hills, Philippines in 1966 and his secondary education at the Philippine Science High School in 1970. He dropped out of college to work as a journalist after a period of imprisonment when Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972. After his release as a political detainee, he also wrote scripts mostly for Lino Brocka, the National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film. Dalisay returned to school and earned his B.A. English degree, cum laude from the University of the Philippines in 1984. He later received an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan in 1988 and a Ph.D in English from the University of WisconsinMilwaukee in 1991 as a Fulbright scholar. Literary career

Dalisay has authored more than 15 books since 1984. Five of those books have garnered National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle. In 1998, Dalisay made it to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Centennial Honors List as one of the 100 most accomplished Filipino artists of the past century. Among his numerous books are Oldtimer and Other Stories (Asphodel, 1984; U.P. Press, 2003); Sarcophagus and Other Stories (U.P. Press, 1992); Killing Time in a Warm Place (Anvil, 1992); Madilim ang Gabi sa Laot at Iba Pang mga Dula ng Ligaw na Pag-Ibig (U.P. Press, 1993); Penmanship and Other Stories (Cacho, 1995); The Island (Ayala Foundation, 1996); Pagsabog ng Liwanag/Aninag, Anino (U.P. Press, 1996); Mac Malicsi, TNT/Ang Butihing Babae ng Timog (U.P. Press, 1997); The Lavas: A Filipino Family (Anvil, 1999); The Best of Barfly (Anvil, 1997); The Filipino Flag (Inquirer Publications, 2004); Man Overboard (Milflores, 2005); Journeys with Light: The Vision of Jaime Zobel (Ayala Foundation, 2005); Selected Stories (U.P. Press, 2005); and "The Knowing Is in the Writing: Notes on the Practice of Fiction" (U.P. Press, 2006). Notable works Short stories Oldtimer and Other Stories, 1984 "Sarcophagus and Other Stories", 1992 "Penmanship and Other Stories", 1995 Selected Stories, 2005 Novel

Killing Time in a Warm Place, 1992 Soledad's Sister, 2008

Plays

Madilim ang Gabi sa Laot at Iba Pang Mga Dula ng Ligaw na Pag-Ibig, 1993 Pagsabog ng Liwanag/Aninag, Anino, 1996 Ang Butihing Babae ng Timog/Mac Malicsi, TNT, 1997

Screenplays More than twenty produced screenplays, including

Tayong Dalawa, 1994 Miguelito, 1995 Saranggola, 1999

Nonfiction

The Best of Barfly, 1997 The Lavas: A Filipino Family, 1999 Man Overboard, 2005 "Wash: Only a Bookkeeper", 2009

Other books

(as editor) Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People , 1998 The Filipino Flag, 2004 Journeys with Light: The Vision of Jaime Zobel, 2005

Acievements

Dalisay has won 16 Palanca Awards in five genres. For winning at least five First Prize awards, he was elevated to the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2000. He has also garnered five Cultural Center of the Philippines awards for playwriting; and FAMAS, URIAN, Star and Catholic Mass Media awards and citations for his screenplays. He also chaired the 1992 ASEAN Writers Conference/Workshop, in Penang, Malaysia. He was named one of The Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of 1993 for his creative writing. In 2005, he received the Premio Cervara di Roma in Italy for extensively promoting Philippine literature overseas. He has received Hawthornden Castle, British Council, David T.K. Wong, and Rockefeller (Bellagio) fellowships, and has held the Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair at the Ateneo de Manila University; and the Jose Joya, Jorge Bocobo, and Elpidio Quirino professorial chairs at U.P. Diliman. He has lectured on Philippine culture and politics at the University of Michigan, University of Auckland, Australian National University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, St. Norbert College (Wisconsin, U.S.A.), University of East Anglia, University of Rome, London School of Economics, and the University of California, San Diego. After serving for three years as English and Comparative Literature Department Chair, Dalisay assumed the post of Vice President for Public Affairs of the U.P. System from May 2003 to February 2005. He is currently a Professor of English and creative writing at the College of Arts and Letters, U.P. Diliman, where he also coordinated the creative writing program. He is also Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. Aside from his column for the Philippine Star, he also writes political and social commentary for the newsmagazine Newsbreak and the San Francisco-based Filipinas magazine.

J. Neil Garcia
J. Neil C. Garcia earned his A.B. Journalism, magna cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas in 1990; M.A. in Comparative Literature in 1995, and Ph.D. in English Studies: Creative Writing in 2003 from the University of the Philippines. He is currently a Professor of English, Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, where he also serves as an Associate for Poetry at the Likhaan: U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. Garcia is the author of numerous poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism, including Closet Quivers (1992), Our Lady of the Carnival (1996), The Sorrows of Water (2000), Kaluluwa (2001), Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism (1998), Performing the Self: Occasional Prose (2003), The Garden of Wordlessness (2005), and Misterios and Other Poems (2005). Garcia's groundbreaking study, Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996), was awarded a National Book Award by the Manila Critics Circle in 1996. An editor of the famous Ladlad series of Filipino gay writing, Garcia also edited for the Likhaan, the following anthologies: The Likhaan Book of Philippine Criticism (1992-1997) and The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction (1998 and 2000). Garcia's latest critical work , Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques, is a revised version of his very provocative Ph. D dissertation. The book examined Filipino poetics from the perspective of post-colonialism consisting of the author's own critical and

personal reflections on poetry-both as he "reads" and "writes" it. Garcia sought to answer a specific and difficult question: just how do the dominant poetic theories in the Philippines address the problems and debates of postcolonialism? This inquiry led Garcia to confront the issue of Filipino nationalism. Garcia addressed the assumptions and consequences of Filipino nationalism then engaged with the poetics of National Artist Virgilio Almario and eminent poet-critic Gemino Abad, whom Garcia referred to as "the foremost commentators on Filipino poetics." Garcia is currently working on a full-length book, a post-colonial survey and analysis of Philippine poetry in English. Professor Garcia has won several literary awards including the Palanca and the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle. He has also received grants and fellowships to deliver lectures in Taipei, Hawaii, Berkeley, Manchester, Cambridge, Leiden and Bangkok. Works Poetry Closet Quivers, 1992 Our Lady of the Carnival, 1996 Sorrows of Water, 2000; Kaluluwa: New and Selected Poems, 2001 The Garden of Wordlessness, 2005 Misterios and Other Poems, 2005 Cultural Criticism Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years, 1996 Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism, 1998 Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques, 2004

Creative Non-Fiction Closet Queeries, 1997 Myths and Metaphors, 2002 Performing the Self: Occasional Prose, 2003 Anthologies (as editor) Ladlad, 1994; Ladlad 2, 1996; The Likhaan Book of Philippine Criticism, 1992-1997 The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, 1998 & 2000 Bongga Ka 'Day: Gay Quotes to Live by, 2002 Ladlad 3, 2007 Honors and Awards

British Council Fellowship Grant to Cambridge British Academy Fellowship Taipei International Artist-in-Residence Visiting ICOPHIL Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands Procyon Poetry Prize National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle Palanca Awards for Literature Philippines Free Press Literary Awards for Poetry U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Artist,

U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Work, U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Research U.P. Gawad Chancellor as Artist of the Year Outstanding Thomasian Writers Award 29th National Writers' Workshop, Dumaguete 20th U.P. National Writers' Workshop

Jaime Licauco
Jaime T. Licauco, popularly known as Jimmy Licauco, is a renowned parapsychologist, author, and management practitioner in the Philippines. He is the Founder and President of the Inner Mind Development Institute, a training center for parapsychology, philosophy, psychic investigation, and metaphysics. Early life and education Licauco was born in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines, on July 25, 1940. He is the greatgreat grandson of Damian Domingo, a nineteenth-century Filipino painter. He completed his elementary and high school at San Beda College, a Catholic school run by the Benedictine monks in Manila. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English degree, magna cum laude, in 1962 from the same institution. He took up graduate studies in Sociology from the Asian Social Institute as a scholar in 1965. He obtained a Master of Business Management degree from the Asian Institute of Management in 1972. Paranormal work Licauco gradually transformed from a corporate executive to a paranormal expert:[1]

1977. He wrote his first pamphlet, Healing Without Medicine. 1978. He wrote his first book, Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man. 1982. He taught Parapsychology for one semester at the De La Salle UniversityManila under the Behavioral Sciences Department. 1986. He founded the Philippine Paranormal Research Society, Inc., a non-profit, non-stock corporation engaged in the systematic investigation and documentation of paranormal phenomena. The society published the Philippine Psychic Journal and conducted regular forums on psychic phenomena. It also provided funds for studies in the field. 1986 to the present. He is a resource person for the Young Presidents Organization, a business club based in Texas, United States. 1987 to present. He is a columnist in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (Inner Awareness). 1988. He developed and conducted the first Creative and Intuitive Management module for graduate students taking up Master in Development Management at the Asian Institute of Management. 1988. He established and became President of Silva Mind Control Philippines, Inc., a firm engaged primarily in conducting the Silva Mind Method of Control Seminar in the Philippines. In May 1991, he resigned as president and lecturer of the Silva Method to devote time to other activities. 1988. He formally left the corporate world and embarked on full time activities in the fields of parapsychology and education. 1988. He established the Inner Mind Development Institute which conducts seminars on mind development, whole brain management, ESP, creative thinking and related subjects which are not covered by the Silva Method of Mind Control seminars. During this year, he conducted the ESP course in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1989. He founded the New Age Breakfast Club which met every Friday morning to discuss various topics of a metaphysical, paranormal and spiritual nature. It was a loose aggrupation of professionals interested in human development in all aspects: non- religious, non-sectarian and non-political. It was open to the public. The forum lasted for four years.

1992 to the present. He is a radio anchor man in DZMM (630 kHz), "Inner Mind on Radio." 2001. He was named one of the "Bedans of the Century" for Literature during the 100th Anniversary of San Beda College.

Publications Licauco has authored twelve books, three pamphlets, and a book on intuition published in San Francisco, California. Two of his books were published by De La Salle University.[1] Among his published works include:

Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man. National Book Store Inc., 1978. The Truth Behind Faith Healing in the Philippines. National Book Store Inc., 1980. The Magicians of God: The Amazing Stories of Philippine Faith Healers. National Book Store, Inc., 1980, 1999. The Psychic World and You. JMC Press Inc., 1982. 2nd edition, 1999. Jun Labo: A Philippine Healing Phenomenon. 1985. True Encounters with the Unknown: The Psychic, the Mystical and the Strange. National Book Store Inc., 1986, 2000. Beyond Ordinary Reality: Exploring the Powers of your Inner Mind. Solar Publishing Corporation, 1987. Beyond Ordinary Reality Volume 2. 1999. Exploring the Powers of Your Inner Mind. Inner Mind Development Institute, 1992.

Intuition at Work: Pathways to Unlimited Possibilities. Co-author. New Leaders Press/Sterling & Stone, Inc., San Francisco, California, 1996. Soul Mates, Karma and Reincarnation. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1996. More Encounters with the Unknown. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1997. When the Impossible Happens: Confessions of a Reluctant Psychic. 1999. On Christianity, New Age & Reincarnation: New Perspectives on Old Religious Issues. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2004. Dwarves and Other Nature Spirits: Their Importance to Man. Rex Book Store, Quezon City, 2005. Ghosts In Photos. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2005.

Lamberto Antonio
Lamberto E. Antonio is a Philippine writer. In 1978, he wrote the script for Insiang, the first Filipino film to be showcased at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books - Hagkis ng Talahib (1971), Pagsalubong sa Habagat (1986 National Book Award for Poetry), and Pingkian at Apat Pang Aklat ng Tunggalian (1997 National Book Award for Poetry). A Palanca awardee 10 times over, he has also won the grand prize for the Epic Narrative in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Literary Competition, and was hailed Makata ng Taon by the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa. He also received the Gawad Manuel L. Quezon and Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas. His other accomplishments include the translation of the literary works of Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Dylan Thomas, Octavio Paz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leopold

Senghor, Salvatore Quasimodo, Usman Awang, and Rabindranath Tagore. He also translated Renato Constantino's A Past Revisited (Ang Bagong Lumipas) in 1997 and served as editor-in-chief of Diyaryo Filipino and Kabayan broadsheets and Pilosopong Tasyo magazine.

Pingkian at Apat Pang Aklat ng Tunggalian Recipient of major awards for his poetry and prose, the author presents his third collection of poems. Antonio, says a critic, is the most persuasive voice in contemporary Tagalog poetry, a poet who speaks for the oppressed, whether peasant or worker, without any touch of affectation. Antonio's Pingkian at Apat Pang Aklat ng Tunggalian was 1997 National Book Awardee for Poetry and 1998 Gintong Aklat Awardee for Literature.

Liwayway Arceo
Liwayway Arceo (1920 2011) was a multi-awarded Tagalog fictionist, journalist, radio scriptwriter and editor from the Philippines. Arceo was the author of well-received novels such as Canal de la Reina (1985) and Titser (1995). She also published collections of short stories such as Ina, Maybahay, Anak at iba pa, Mga Maria, Mga Eva, Ang Mag-anak na Cruz (1990), and Mga Kuwento ng Pag-ibig (1997). Most of her books were published by Ateneo de Manila University Press and The University of the Philippines Press. Arceo's story Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa was placed second in the Japanese Imperial Government-sanctioned Pinakamabuting Maikling Katha ng 1943 (The Best Short Stories of 1943).

Arceo made her mark as a lead actress in a Japanese and Philippine film produced during World War II. The film Tatlong Maria was produced by two movie companies: X'Otic Pictures of the Philippines and Eiga Hekusa of Japan in 1944. She also ventured into radio by Ilaw ng Tahanan, a long-running radio serial. Ilaw ng Tahanan became a television soap opera aired in RPN 9 during the late 1970s. Arceo's short story Lumapit, Lumayo ang Umaga was later turned into an award-winning film by National Artist Ishmael Bernal in 1975. Filipina thespian Elizabeth Oropesa received a FAMAS Best Actress Award in 1976 for her role in the film. Arceo received a Carlos Palanca for Short Story in Filipino (Filipino (Tagalog) Division) in 1962; a Japan Foundation Visiting Fellowship in 1992; a Gawad CCP for Literature given by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1993; a Doctorate on Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the University of the Philippines in 1991; the Catholic Authors Award from the Asian Catholic Publishers in 1990, and the Gawad Balagtas Life Achievement Award for Fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (Writers Union of the Philippines or UMPIL) in 1998. In 1999, Liwayway Arceo received a Philippine National Centennial Commission award for her prioneering and exemplary contributions in the field of literature. When she died, Filipino writers paid tribute to Liwayway A. Arceo during a memorial service held at the Loyola Memorial Chapel in Guadalupe, Makati City, Philippines on December 6, 1999.

Lualhati Bautista
Lualhati Torres Bautista (b. Manila, Philippines December 2, 1945) is one of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the history of contemporary Philippine Literature. Her novels include, Dekada '70, Bata, Bata, Pa'no Ka Ginawa?, and GAP. Biography Bautista was born in Tondo, Manila, Philippines on December 2, 1945 to Esteban Bautista and Gloria Torres. She graduated from Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in 1958, and from Torres High School in 1962. She was a journalism student at the Lyceum of the Philippines, but dropped out even before she finished her freshman year. She has served as vicepresident of the Screenwriters Guild of the Philippines and chair of the Kapisanan ng mga Manunulat ng Nobelang Popular. She became a national fellow for fiction of the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center in 1986. Also in 1986, she was invited to participate in the US- International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), multi-regional project on American film. The following year, she participated in the ASEAN writers conference held in Singapore. Work

In addition to being a novelist, Lualhati Bautista is also a movie and television screenwriter and a short story writer. Her first screenplay was Sakada (Seasonal Sugarcane Workers), a story written in 1975 that exposed the plight of Filipino peasants. Bautista has received recognition from the Philippines' Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature and the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa in 1987. Her award-winning screenplays include Bulaklak sa City Jail (A Flower in City Jail) (1984), Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap (If The Clouds are Parted) (1984), Sex Object (1985). For screenplay writing, she has received recognition from the Metro Manila Film Festival (best story-best screenplay), Film Academy Awards (best story-best screenplay), Star Awards (best screenplay), FAMAS (finalist for best screenplay), and URIAN awards. Two of her short stories have also won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Tatlong Kuwento ng Buhay ni Julian Candelabra (Three Stories in the Life of Julian Candelabra), first prize, 1982; and Buwan, Buwan, Hulugan mo Ako ng Sundang (Moon, Moon, Drop Me a Sword), third prize, 1983. Bautista also authored the television dramas Daga sa Timba ng Tubig (The Mouse in the Bucket of Water) (1975) and Isang Kabanata sa Libro ng Buhay ni Leilani Cruzaldo (A Chapter in the Book of Life of Leilani Cruzaldo) (1987). The latter won best drama story for television from the Catholic Mass Media Awards. Bautista was honored by the Ateneo Library of Womens Writings on March 10, 2004 during the 8th Annual Lecture on Vernacular Literature by Women. In 2005, the Feminist Centennial Film Festival presented her with a recognition award for her outstanding achievement in screenplay writing. In 2006, she was recipient of the Diwata Award for best writer by the 16th International Women's Film Festival of the UP Film Center. She is also the only Filipino included in a book on foremost International Women Writers published in Japan, 1991. Works Short fiction collections Buwan, Buwan, Hulugan Mo Ako ng Sundang: Dalawang Dekada ng Maiikling Kuwento Screenplays Sakada Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap Bulaklak sa City Jail Kadenang Bulaklak The Maricris Sioson Story Nena Bata, Bata...Pa'no Ka Ginawa? Dekad 70

Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes

Lourdes Castrillo-Brillantes is a prominent Filipino female writer in the Spanish language Achievements Brillantes is the author of 80 Aos del Premio Zobel (80 Years of the Zobel Prize), a compilation of Spanish literature written by Filipinos. Brillantes, who is herself a Zobel Prize winner in 1998, authored the book to reflect the golden age of Philippine literature written in the Spanish language. The tome practically retells the history of modern Filipino literature in Spanish, the history of the Spanish language in the Philippines, and the story of the Zobel clan, particularly Don Enrique Zobel. Don Enrique Zobel founded the Premio

Zobel in 1920 in order to promote and maintain the Spanish language in the country. Lourdes Brillantes's book also contains novels, short stories, poetry and scripts for plays as well as brief biographies of previous winners of the Premio Zobel. The publication of 80 Aos del Premio Zobel became possible through the efforts of the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines; the former Spanish ambassador to the Philippines, Delfn Colom; the Instituto Cervantes, the Fundacin Santiago,and the Agencia Espaola de Cooperacin International (AECI). Brillantes was also a European languages professor at the University of the Philippines and was a contributor to the Cronica of The Manila Chronicle.

Lina Flor
Carolina Flores-Trinidad or Lina Flor (date of birth unknown 1976) was a writer from the Philippines. Writer of the hit radio drama Gulong ng Palad, she was also a "society columnist, bilingual fictionist, scriptwriter, biographer and lyricist, as well as a cartoonist, an actress, even a journalism teacher." Her beginnings Just barely out of her teens, Lina was signed up as a radio performer for KZIB, a small radio station where she hosted a morning program. Eventually, she transferred to KZRM, then the biggest radio station, dominated by American executives and American talents. In the middle of her success as a radio talent, Lina embarked on new career when was asked to edit a radio column for the Graphic. She later became a regular columnist for the Graphic when the publicity girl of Radio Manila (an American) resigned. During this time, she also started writing short stories in English. In 1934, Lina published her first short story titled, Big Sister. The story was said to have been "influenced by a painting of a young girl preening before a mirror. Big Sister and eventually Family Album and Grandmother Muses landed in Jose Garcia Villas annual Honor Roll."

Writing in her native language With the Japanese occupation and eventually, the Second World War, the trend of writing shifted from English to Tagalog as to deepen the countrys sense of nationalism. To write was no longer done to satisfy the Muse; to write was to take a specific political position. By shifting from English to Tagalog, the writers in English, perhaps unconsciously realized how inextricably related language was to the exploration of the world they lived in. Thus, Lina decided to hone her writing in Tagalog and appeared to have reached the height of her power and creativity as a writer and performer. She wrote several short stories in Tagalog for Sinag-tala, Ilang-Ilang, Magasin ng Pagsilang and Daigdig. Aside from these, she started writing novel serials for Sinag-tala and Taliba, had regular weekly columns in Sinag-tala and a movie column for Ilang-Ilang. During this time, Lina began writing radio soap operas. In 1949, Linas Gulong ng Palad aired over DZRH, and changed the face of radio programming. Gulong ng Palad is considered to be the most popular daytime series in radio history. Her final but still fruitful years In the final years of her life, Lina, although always sickly and frail, continued to push herself into honing her craft. In 1972, Sparklers for the Day was published. Sparklers contained a day-to-day listings of events such as birthdays, wedding and anniversaries, etc. of prominent Filipinos. Lita Magsanoc, then a young journalist, commented that Sparklers feels intimate and personal and flipping through its pages seems snooping through someone elses datebook. The following year, Lina embarked on poetry as she released Dilettante, a collection of light verses and four cartoons. Although Lina described this collection as a product of dabbling, other critics considered Dilettante her masterpiece. Lina Flor died of a heart attack on February 11, 1976. Numerous people, including her fans, co-workers, and others came at her wake; while many of her colleagues spoke and wrote about her passing, constantly referring to her "goodness and generosity, her thoughtfulness and graciousness, truly a life lived for others." Handling multiple careers In the following years, Lina Flor was handling multi-media careers: as a feature writer (with famous personalities as her favorite topic), as an autobiographical essayist (concentrating on the numerous duties of being a wife and a mother), as a film juror, a social historian, even a cultural critic.

Leona Florentino
Leona Florentino (April 19, 1849-October 4, 1884) was a Filipino poet in the Spanish and Ilocano languages. She is considered as the "mother of Philippine women's literature" and the "bridge from oral to literary tradition". Born to a wealthy and prominent family in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Florentino began to write her first verses in Ilocano at a young age. Despite her potential, she was not allowed to receive a university education because of her gender. Florentino was instead tutored by her mother, and then a series of private teachers. An educated Ilocano priest taught her advanced Spanish and encouraged her to develop her voice in poetry.

Due to the feminist nature of her writings, Florentino was shunned by her husband and son, and so was forced to live alone in exile and separately from her family. Florentino married a politician named Elias de los Reyes at the age of 14, and they had five children, including Isabelo de los Reyes, who would later become a Filipino writer, activist and senator. She died at the age of 35. Works Her lyrical poetry in Spanish, especially in Ilocano, gained attention with their exhibition in various international forums in Spain, Paris and St. Louis, Missouri. Her literary contributions - particularly 22 preserved poems - were recognized when she was included in the Encyclopedia Internationale des Oeuvres des Femmes (International Encyclopedia of Womens Works) in 1889. She is believed to be the first Filipino to receive this international recognition, a homage that occurred only after her untimely death.

Luis P. Gatmaitan
Luis P. Gatmaitan, M.D., is a Filipino medical doctor and children's author. His medical career has been cited as one of HealthToday Philippines Magazine 's Ten Pillars of the Philippine Health Care Industry. He also appears on a radio program, Doctors On Line, on Monday mornings at DZAS as a medical consultant. Gatmaitan was inducted into the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2005 for his writing. Most of his work is in the genre of children's literature, for which he has garnered many awards, including the Catholic Mass Media Awards. His books include Mga Kwento ni Tito Dok and Sandosenang Sapatos.

Gatmaitan has authored and published more than 30 storybooks for children tackling issues such as disability, senility, coping with death, coping with cancer, childhood diseases, and children's rights in his stories. His children's book series "Mga Kuwento ni Tito Dok" was cited by the Manila Critics Circle "for its popularization of the science of medicine in language and illustrations that young children can understand, for its indigenizing of universal scientific principles, and for its imaginative reconstruction of what happens in the human body." Inducted into the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2005, he has also been a recipient of the Catholic Mass Media Awards and the PBBY-Salanga Writers Prize. His children's book Sandosenang Sapatos , now listed in the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) catalogue for the Bologna International Children's Book Fair 2005, was named the 2005 Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities by the IBBY . He has also been cited as one of HealthToday Philippines Magazine's Ten Pillars of the Philippine Health Care Industry, 2003 Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines for his contribution in the field of Literature, and as finalist in the 2004 Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) search. Published by several local publishing houses and international agencies like the UNICEF and WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL, Gatmaitan has also chaired the PBBY and Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting (KUTING). He hosts a children's storytelling program for radio every Saturday morning over DZAS.

Len Mara Guerrero

Len Mara Guerrero y Leogardo (January 21, 1853April 13, 1935) was a Filipino scientist, educator, writer, revolutionary leader and politician who was the first licensed pharmacist in the Philippines and one of the most eminent botanists in the country in his time. Len was one of the 14 children of Len Jorge Guerrero and Clara Leogardo. He was born on January 21, 1853 in Ermita, Manila. His brother, Lorenzo Guerrero, became a painter and Juan Luna's teacher; Lorenzo painted the altar of the San Sebastian church in Quiapo. Len Jorge was the uncle of poet-politician, Fernando Mara Guerrero, who won a seat at

the Philippine Assembly in 1907. Leon Maria is the grandfather of diplomat Len Mara Guerrero, his namesake, and preeminent writer Carmen Guerrero Cruz Nakpil. Being a scion of one of the most prominent families of Manila during the last years of Spanish colonial period, he was among the first students of the Ateneo de Manila University when it was founded in 1859 and known as the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. After completing his primary and secondary education, he enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas, where he graduated in 1875 with a bachelor's degree in [pharmacy], specializing in botany and zoology. The following year, he was licensed to practice pharmacy. Guerrero was appointed head of the military pharmacy in Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur and at the marine hospital in Kawit, Cavite. Later he would manage the popular Binondo Pharmacy in Manila. His scientific curiosity led him to study the therapeutic uses of Philippine plants, from which he extracted pharmacological ingredients. Pharmacological botanist In 1889, he was appointed member of the council of health of the Manila City Council and was enrolled as a member of the Sociedad Espaola de Historia Natural. He was also invited to be an auditor and associate of the La Revista Internacional de Farmacografia. His accomplishments also earned him an appointment as chemical expert of the Audiencia Real, the supreme court during the Spanish colonial period. He also pursued special studies in ornithology and lepidopterology, securing him a position as zoologist in the forestry bureau of the Spanish colonial government.

Iluminado Lucente
Iluminado Lucente (May 14, 1883 - February 14, 1960) was a Philippine writer, primarily writing poetry and drama in the Waray language. He is considered by many as the greatest writer in the Waray language. Lucente was a member of the Sanghiran San Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte (Academy of the Visayan Language of Samar and Leyte). His most famous work is the poem An Iroy nga Tuna (The Motherland).

Works Poetry

An Iroy nga Tuna Baga Durogas Ngan Baga Tinuod (1939) Hangin Gad La (1960) Pilipinas Gugma Panhayhay (Ginsa-aran) Bumangon Ka Pepe Debelopmental nga Istorya

Drama

Abugho An Duha nga Sportsmen Diri Daraga, Diri Balo, Diri Inasaw-an Up Limit Pati An Gugma

Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez

Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez (born 1980 in Sta. Mesa, Manila), a poet, fictionist, critic, and journalist, hails from Flora, Apayao, Philippines. He lives in Novaliches, Caloocan City, in Metro Manila. He has won prizes including two "Makata ng Taon (Poet of the Year)" honors from the state-run Gawad Komisyon sa Tula-Gantimpalang Collantes of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. He has also won an award for his fiction from the Catholic Mass Media Awards, given out yearly by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila. Life

A son of a professional electrical engineer from Baliuag, Bulacan and a fitness trainer from Abulog, Cagayan, Sanchez was born on 29 October 1980 in Sta. Mesa, Manila. He grew up in homes in San Juan City in Manila, where his parents started their family, and much later on, in Bagong Barrio, Caloocan City. He now lives in Novaliches, Caloocan City. Education Educated in Catholic schools all throughout his boyhood, he finished high school at the Notre Dame of Greater Manila in Grace Park, Caloocan City, before entering the University of Santo Tomas. At Santo Tomas, he enrolled at the Faculty of Arts and Letters, intending to major in communication arts. However, his stint at The Varsitarian, the official student publication, convinced him to shift to journalism.[2] He earned a bachelor of arts degree in 2002. Published Works: Books At Sa Tahanan ng Alabok: Mga Tula, UST Publishing House, Forthcoming In Anthologies Poetry "La Traidora" & "Kuwento ng Monghe" in Latay sa Isipan: Mga Bagong Tulang Filipino, Cirilo F. Bautista & Allan Popa, eds.. University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2007 "Katapusan" & "Retrato sa Opisina" in Ladlad 3: An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing, J. Neil Garcia & Danton Remoto, eds., Anvil Publishing, 2007 Fiction "Pagninilay sa Pagpatay" in Mga Kuwentong Paspasan, Vicente Garcia Groyon, patnugot., Milflores Publishing, 2007 "Ilang Halaw Mula sa Kathang Sa Mga Aninong Ligaw", in Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento 2000, Roland B. Tolentino & Joi Barrios, eds., University of The Philippines Press, 2002. Poetry "Digmaan" in The Varsitarian, July 31, 2009 "Pagninilay sa Larawan ng Isang Monghe" in Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino Talaang Ginto Winners "Senakulo", "Perdon", "Anino" in Ideya Vol. 9, No. 2

Lakambini Sitoy
Lakambini A. Sitoy is a Filipino writer. She is also known as Bing Sitoy. Sitoy writes in English. She has published two collections of short stories in the Philippines. Mens Rea and Other Stories was published by Anvil in 1999 and received a Manila Critics Circle National Book Award that same year. Jungle Planet was published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2006 and was shortlisted for the MCC National Book Award for that year. Sitoy is among 21 authors on the Man Asian Literary Prize's long list for 2008. The novel, Sweet Haven, is her first.

She received the David T.K. Wong fellowship from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom in 2003. Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic and Story Philippines. They have appeared in various anthologies in the Philippines, such as Likhaan Anthology of Poetry and Fiction (published by the University of the Philippines Press) and The Best Philippine Stories, a 2000 anthology published by Tahanan Books and edited by Isagani Cruz. Other stories have appeared in Manoa, the literary journal of the University of Hawaii; Wake, an anthology of stories, essays and poems about Southeast Asia published in Britain to benefit victims of the 2004 tsunami; and Ansigter, an anthology of Southeast Asian short stories published by Forlaget Hjulet in Copenhagen in 2008. Sitoy has received writing fellowships from the National Writers' Workshop in Dumaguete (1989) and the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop (1990). She has also received nine prizes in the annual Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards and a Philippines Free Press Award (1994). As a journalist, Sitoy also served as a lifestyle and cultural section editor and columnist for the Manila Times. She was an MA guest student at Roskilde University in Denmark in 2006. PUBLICATIONS (as of mid-2008) BOOKS Jungle Planet (a collection of 17 short stories) 2005 University of the Philippines Press Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines email: uppress@up.org Mens Rea and other stories (a collection of nine short stories), 1998 Anvil Publishing, Inc. 2/F Team Pacific Bldg. 13 Jose Cruz St., Barrio Ugong Pasig City, Philippines (632) 6719235 email: pubdept@anvil.com.ph NEWSPAPER WORK Over 200 lifestyle, feature and travel articles,reviews, newspaper columns and uncredited Opinion-page editorials, in Sitoys capacity as Lifestyle Editor of Manila Standard, Isyu and The Evening Paper, published over the period from May 1996 to December 1999 and Opinion page editor of The Manila Standard (1998-1999) and The Manila Times (20002001) ANTHOLOGIZED STORIES AND ESSAYS, PUBLISHED BY FOREIGN AND PHILIPPINE PUBLICATIONS (partial)

A. International Publishers Armani (translated) in Danish anthology of Southeast Asian short fiction, scheduled for publication by Forlaget Hjulet, Inc., Copenhagen, 2007, Denmark, Vagn Plenge, editor Renata and Jungle Planet in Manoa (winter 2004 edition titled Jungle Planet after Sitoys story) , University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Jungle Planet and Touch in Wake (a collection of short stories, profit of which benefitted the victims of the 2004 tsunami. Edited by Nathan Hamilton and Zoe Green. Other authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Rose Tremain and Patricia Duncker), 2005, Egg Box Publishing, London, U.K. Touch in Coming Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas, edited by Marianne Villanueva. Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2003. New York, U.S.A. Armani in Tulikarpanen (Firefly), an anthology of Filipino womens writings translated into Finnish , Riitta Vartti, editor and translator Kaantopiiri, Helsinki, Finland 2001 A Dream of Women in Manoa (Century of Dreams: New Writing from America, the Pacific and Asia) University of Hawaii Press 1997, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

B. Philippine Publishers Sisters in anthology project of PEN, Philippines, scheduled for release in 2007, Vicente Groyon, editor The Night Monkeys in The Night Monkeys, anthology of Palanca award-winning short stories for children, published by Tahanan Books, Makati, Manila, 2008 Zenaida Amador in Ten Outstanding Filipino Biographies for high school readers, published by Insular Life, Inc., Makati, Manila, 2007 Shut up and Live in Latitude: Writing from the Philippines and Scotland, edited by Angelo Lacuesta and Toni Davidson, Anvil Publishing, Inc., Manila, 2006. Sr. Mary John Mananzan, in Heroes, a coffee table book to celebrate the 25th anniversary of EDSA, published by Alay sa Bansa Community and Ninoy and Cory Aquino Center for Leadership, edited by Alfred Yuson, Manila, 2006. When You Wish Upon a Jollibee, essay in A 25-Year Love Story with the Pinoy (coffee table book to celebrate Jollibees 25th anniversary), edited by Alfred Yuson, 2004. Moon Silver in Fast Food Fiction: Short Stories to Go, Anvil Publishing, 2003 edited by Noelle de Jesus The Vampire in The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction 2002, Carla Pacis, editor University of the Philippines Press 2003 Secret Notes on the Dead Star in Future Shock: An anthology of young writers and new literatures, Ian Rosales Casocot, editor Silliman University, Dumaguete City 2002 Touch in Best Philippine Short Stories of the 20th Century, Isagani Cruz, editor Tahanan Books, Makati City Metro Manila 2000 The Atheneum in Dream Noises: A Generation Writes, Anvil Publishing, Manila 1999 Pure Magic in The Golden Loom: Palanca Prize-winners for Children, Tahanan Books for Young Readers, Makati City, Metro Manila 1997 I See My Shadow on the Pavement in The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction 1995 University of the Philippines Press, Diliman, Quezon City 1995 SHORT STORIES and ARTICLES IN LIFE-STYLE GLOSSIES Over 25 short stories and non-fiction articles published in Philippine magazines such as Cosmopolitan-Philippines, Preview, Free Press, Graphic.

Mila D. Aguilar
Mila D. Aguilar (born 1949) is a Filipina poet and revolutionary, author of A Comrade is as Precious as a Rice Seedling and Journey: An Autobiography in Verse (1964-1995). She is also an essayist, teacher, video documentarist, and website designer. As a poet, she has written almost 240 poems in English, Filipino, and Ilonggo. About 125 of these are in her collection of

poems, Journey: An Autobiography in Verse (1964-1995), published by the University of the Philippines Press in 1996. This collection contains poems from six books printed in Manila, San Francisco, and New York between the years 1974 and 1987 (including A Comrade is as Precious as a Rice Seedling), as well as poems written in subsequent years up to 1995. In 1972, Aguilar was arrested by the Philippine government; following her release she was again arrested in 1984. Ms. Aguilar has written more than a hundred essays, a handful of which were done when she went "underground" first as an ordinary member, then later as head of the Regional United Front Commission of Mindanao, and last as head of the National United Front Commission of the Communist Party of the Philippines, from which she resigned in 1984. She has produced, written, and directed almost 50 videos on subjects ranging from community organizations to regional cultures and good manners for government employees. As a "webweaver", a term she invented,[citation needed] she has designed her own web pages as well as the website of a non-governmental organization. At present she is teaching at the Department of English and Comparative Literature of the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

Manuel Arguilla
Manuel Estabillo Arguilla (1911 1944) was an Ilokano writer in English, patriot, and martyr. He is known for his widely anthologized short story "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," the main story in the collection "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Short Stories" which won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940.

His stories "Midsummer" and "Heat" was published in the United States by the Prairie Schooner. Most of Arguilla's stories depict scenes in Barrio Nagrebcan, Bauang, La Union where he was born. His bond with his birthplace, forged by his dealings with the peasant folk of Ilocos, remained strong even after he moved to Manila where he studied at the University of the Philippines where he finished BS Education in 1933 and where he became a member and later the president of the U.P. Writer's Club and editor of the university's Literary Apprentice. He married Lydia Villanueva, another talented writer in English, and they lived in Ermita, Manila. Here, F. Sionil Jos, another seminal Filipino writer in English, recalls often seeing him in the National Library, which was then in the basement of what is now the National Museum. "you couldn't miss him", Jose describes Arguilla, "because he had this black patch on his cheek, a birthmark or an overgrown mole. He was writing then those famous short stories and essays which I admired." He became a creative writing teacher at the University of Manila and later worked at the Bureau of Public Welfare as managing editor of the bureau's publication Welfare Advocate until 1943. He was later appointed to the Board of Censors. He secretly organized a guerrilla intelligence unit against the Japanese. In October 1944, he was captured, tortured and executed by the Japanese army at Fort Santiago.

Merlinda Bobis
Merlinda Carullo Bobis (born 25 November 1959) is a contemporary Philippine-Australian writer and academic. Born in Legaspi City, in the Philippines province of Albay, Merlinda Bobis attended Bicol University High School then completed her B.A. at Aquinas University in Legaspi City. She holds post-graduate degrees from the University of Santo Tomas and University of Wollongong, and now lives in Australia. Written in various genres in both Filipino and

English, her work integrates elements of the traditional culture of the Philippines with modern immigrant experience. Also a dancer and visual artist, Bobis currently teaches at Wollongong University. Her play Rita's Lullaby was the winner of the 1998 Awgie for Best Radio Play and the international Prix Italia of the same year; in 2000 White Turtle won the Steele Rudd Award for the Best Collection of Australian Short Stories and the 2000 Philippine National Book Award. Most recently, in 2006, she has received the Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Book Award, Philippines) for her latest novel Banana Heart Summer, from the Book Development Association of the Philippines. Works Poetry

Rituals: Selected poems, 1985-1990. (1990) Summer was a Fast Train without Terminals. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) ISBN 1875559-76-0

Short stories

White Turtle. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1999) ISBN 1-875559-89-2 review The Kissing (Aunt Lute, 2001) ISBN 1-879960-60-5 [US reissue of White Turtle] review

Novels

Banana Heart Summer (Murdoch Books, 2005) ISBN 1-74045-590-8 The Solemn Lantern Maker (Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2008)

Melchor F. Cichon
Melchor F. Cichon is the Head librarian and concurrently Head of the Readers Services Section of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Miag-ao, Iloilo. He is also a lecturer in management at the College of Management. Melchor is a poet whose work has been recognized by the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas, from which he received the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas in 2001.

He has promoted Aklanon literature not just through his writing, but also by setting up a website. Now that blogging has become easier than managing a website, Cichon maintains several blogs including Events in My Life, Dawn to Dawn, Profile of Filipino Fisheries Scientists, Fisheries Librarian and Aklanon Literature Cichon is a recipient of the 2006 Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Grants awarded by the Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Institute (FLDCWI), Coordinating Center for Research and Publications of the University of San Agustin. His manuscript is titled Siniad-Siad nga Kaeangitan/Strips of Heaven, a collection of Aklanon haiku with English translations. Education

Certificate in Fisheries, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 1970 Bachelor of Science in Education, Manuel L. Quezon University 1974 Certificate in Governmental Management, University of the Philippines, Visayas 1982 Master in Management (Public Management), University of the Philippines, Visayas 1982 Master in Library Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman 1985

Works Poetry Kinaray-a Inay.Salaming. January 1994, p. 17 Hiligaynon Kon Dominggo Sang Aga Sa Lezo. Salaming. January 1994, p. 17 Filipino Basura at Lapad. In: Patubas; an Anthology of West Visayan Poetry, 1986-1994. Edited by Leoncio P. Deriada. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 1995, p. 133 Nanay Soriang. In: Patubas; an Anthology of West Visayan Poetry, 1986-1994. Edited by Leoncio P. Deriada. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 1995 p. 134 Pagtulak Ng Gabi. Mediawatch December 1993, p. 35 Lorna. Home Life November 1996, p. 35 Kung Linggo Ng Umaga Sa Lezo. Home Life January 1997, p. 43 Ang Gamu-Gamu at ang Lampara. Home Life June 1997, p. 42 Huwag Nang Magyabang Sa Marami Mong Patubas. Home Life, January 1997, p. 43

Akeanon(some)

Ambeth. Philippine Panorama, August 14, 1994. Ay, Saeamat. Salaming, January 1994, p. 1 Emergency Room. The Aklan Reporter, December 7, 1994, p. 10 Eva, Si Adan! (Finalist Sa Unang PremyoOpeniano A. Italia Competition, January 1993,Duenas,Iloilo) Ham-at Madueom Ro Gabii Inay? Philippine Panorama, March 27, 1994, p. 29. (First Aklanon poem published in the Phil. Pan.) Also in The Aklan Reporter, April 6, 1994, p. 8. Hin-uno Pa. The Aklan Reporter, February 23, 1994, p. 8. Also in Ani December 1993, p. 44 Inay. Philippine Collegian, October 4, 1973, p. 3 (First Aklanon poem in the Philippine Collegian)

Limog sa Idaeom. Ani December 1993, p. 48 Mamunit Ako Inay. The Aklan Reporter, December 28, 1994, p. 10 Manog-Uling. The Aklan Reporter July 29, 1992, p. 9. Also in Ani December 1993, p. 50 Owa't Kaso, Saeamat. Mantala 3:97 2000 Ro Bantay. The Aklan Reporter, September 6, 1995, p. 7 Sa Mga Nagkaeabali Nga Silak. (Binigkas at Nagkamit Ng Pangatlong Gantipala sa Pangalawang Premyo Openiano A. Italia Competition, March 13, 1998, UPV Auditorium, Iloilo City) Sa Pilapil It Tangke. Ani December 1994, p. 46 Toto, Pumailaya Ka. Pagbutlak (First Aklanon in Pagbutlak) Welga. Mantala 3:99 2000 Si Ambong, Ati. (unpublished), 2001

English

Poem in June. Home Life, June 2004,p. 24 A Letter. In: In Time Passing, There Are Things : 100 Home Life Poets edited by Leoncio P. Deriada. Makati City: Home Life, 2000, p. 86. (This poem won first prize in its First Poetry Contest, 1993) Still. In: In Time Passing, There Are Things, p. 87 Thank You, Anyway. Mantala 1(3):98 2000 Strike. Mantala 1(3):99 2000 Rue. Busay. June 1992, p. 91 (This poem won Third Place, English Poetry Writing Contest,Miag-ao Summer Arts Camp Poetry Workshop, 1992) Pushing the Night Ani 3(2): 151 June 1989 A Youth's Voice. Ani 3(2): 152 June 1989 Brother. Busay 3(1):14 December 1997 Upon Seeing Magellan's Cross Busay 3(1):15 December 1997 Lorna. Busay 2(1):44 October 1996 Driver. Busay 2(1):45 October 1996 Women of Antique. Philippines Free Press, December 12, 1991

Fiction

Silabu. (Revised version) The Aklan Reporter, April 1622, 1998, p. 8 Silabu. In Selebrasyon at Lamentasyon; Antolohiya ng Maikling Kuwento ng Panay/ Carmen L. de los Santos, editor; Ma. Milagros G. Lachica, John E. Barrios, mga tagasalin. Quezon City: U.P. SWF, 1998, pp. 4253. Melin. The Aklan Reporter, Oct. 15-21, 1998, p. 10-11 Sa Kamaisan. The Aklan Reporter, Oct 29-November 4, 1998, p. 8-9

Maria Odulio de Guzman

Maria Odulio de Guzman was a teacher, educator, principal, writer, and author. She was the first Filipino female principal of a secondary school in the Philippines. She worked as a teacher at the Nueva Ecija High School in Nueva Ecija, Philippines from 1918 to 1928. She received her education from Radford State Teacher's College in the Virginia, United States. She was a professor at the Philippine Normal College. She was a compiler and author of several multilingual dictionaries in Tagalog, Pilipino, Filipino, Spanish, and English. She was

also a translator of Jose Rizal's Noli me Tangere and a co-translator of El filibusterismo, another novel by Rizal Works Among the dictionaries M.O. de Guzman authored include:[3]

English-Tagalog-Spanish and Tagalog-English Vocabulary, (with co-author Domingo de Guzman, Quezon City, Pressman, 1963, 228 pages) An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1966) New Tagalog-English English-Tagalog (1966) New English-Filipino Filipino-English Dictionary (1968) English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1966) New English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1968) The New Filipino-English/English-Filipino Dictionary (January 1, 1968) Bagong Diksiyonaryo: Pilipino-Ingles, Ingles-Pilipino (1968) Diksiyunaryo Pilipino-Ingles Pilipino (Pilipino-English-Pilipino Dictionary) (1970) An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1979) English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1982) An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (January 1, 1988) English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (January 1, 1993) English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English (2000) New Tagalog-English Dictionary (2006) Bagong Talatinigan: Pilipino-Ingles Ingles-Pilipino ISBN 9710817450

Marjorie Evasco
Marjorie Evasco is an award- winning Filipino poet, born in Maribojoc, Bohol in September 21, 1953. She writes in two languages: English and Cebuano-Visayan and is a supporter of womens' rights, especially of women writers. Marjorie Evasco is one of the earliest Filipina feminist poets.

Biography Born into a family of teachers who were "always talking English", she was brought up and educated as a Roman Catholic and her formative years in school were spent under the tutelage of German and Belgian nuns.[2] Evasco and her family then moved to Manila. She finished her B.A. in 1973 from Divine Word College of Tagbilaran, Masteral Degree in Creative Writing in 1982 at Silliman University and her Doctor of Philosophy in Literature (Ph.D. Litt.) at De La Salle University-Manila. She became a member of the faculty at De La Salle University, while completing her doctoral degree in 1998.For many years, she was Director of DLSU's Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center.She is currently a University Fellow at the same university. Works
Evasco's prize-winning poetry books are: Dreamweavers: Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987) and Ochre Tones: Poems in English and Cebuano (1999). Ochre Tones was launched last May 1997 at National Artist Edith L. Tiempo's residence on Montemar (Sibulan, Negros Oriental). Evasco calls this volume a " book of changes," following Dreamweavers which for her was a " book of origins."[4] She is currently working on a third poetry collection and hopes to finish it soon. Evasco's other books include A Legacy of Light: 100 Years of Sun Life in the Philippines, Six Women Poets: Inter/Views (co-authored, with Edna Manlapaz), Kung Ibig Mo: Love Poetry by Women (coedited with Benilda Santos, A Life Shaped by Music: Andrea O. Veneracion and the Philippine Madrigal Singers and ANI: The Life and Art of Hermogena Borja Lungay, Boholano Painter Evasco was a founding member of two organizations espousing the cause of women writers: Writers Involved in Creating Cultural Alternatives (WICCA) and Women in Literary Arts (WILA). She has written many essays on women's poetry, several of them finding their place in various anthologies. She served as editor of a special issue of Ani in 1998 that featured writings and art work by Filipino women. She is an associate fellow of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC).

In September 2002, she was invited for a three-month residency at the International Writing Program in the University of Iowa.

Magdalena Jalandoni
Magdalena Jalandoni Gonzaga (1891 in Jaro, Iloilo - 1978 in Jaro) was a Filipino feminist writer. She is now remembered as one of the most prolific Filipino writers in the Hiligaynon language. Hailing from Western Visayas, her works are said to have left permanent and significant milestones in Philippine literature. Life and career

Born to an affluent family in the former city of Jaro (Salog), now a present day district of Iloilo City, she already began writing at tender age wherein she already had her poems published at the age of 12. She published her first novel Ang Mga Tunoc Sang Isa Ca Bulac (The Thorns of a Flower), which was later followed by many novels, compilations of poems and short stories. Jalandoni only wrote for publication purposes due to the male-dominated society at the time. Back then, female voices in literature were not taken seriously by the general public. Although her mother strictly forbade her to take literature seriously, she refused to do so and devoted her life entirely to literature. In her childhood autobiography Ang Matam-is Kong Pagkabata (My Sweet Childhood), she cites: "I will be forced to write when I feel that my nose is being assaulted by the scent of flowers, when my sight is filled with the promises of the sun and when my soul is lifted by winged dreams to the blue heavens." Her famous poem Ang Guitara (The Guitar) is read in classrooms all over the country today. Literary critics and historians claim that she has mastered a special talent for poetry and description as well as dramatic evocations of landscapes and events in her novels and short stories. Her works span from the coming of Malay settlers in the Middle Ages up to the Spanish and American colonial era as well as the Japanese occupation of World War II, all portraying the history of Panay and the evolution of the Ilonggo culture. According to Riitta Varitti of the Finnish-Philippine Society in Helsinki, "Jalandoni was the most productive Philippine writer of all time." Other famous works include Anabella, Sa Kapaang Sang Inaway (In the Heat of War), Ang Dalaga sa Tindahan (The Young Woman in the Market) and Ang Kahapon ng Panay (The Past of Panay). Throughout her turbulent and displaced life, she still managed to publish 36 novels, 122 short stories, 7 novelettes, 7 long plays, 24 short plays and dialogos in verse complied in two volumes, seven volumes of personally compiled essays including some translations from Spanish and two autobiographies. She has been displaced from her hometown twice and has survived the Philippine Revolution, the Filipino-American War and the Japanese Occupation. In 1977, she received the prestigious Republic Cultural Heritage Award for her literary achievements from the government, about one year before her death. She is now survived by a few nieces as well as several other close relatives. Despite all this, she still remains relatively unknown up to this day. Her family's ancestral house still stands as a historical landmark and museum not far from the cathedral of Jaro. A street at the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex in Pasay City, Philippines is named in her honor.

Nick Deocampo
Nick Deocampo stands out as a multifaceted personality in Philippine cinema. He is a prizewinning filmmaker, author, film teacher, scholar, film festival organizer, film historian, and now the director of the newly established Center for New Cinema. Deocampos academic credentials include a Master of Arts degree in Cinema Studies at the New York University under a Fulbright Scholarship Grant (19881989). He received

another Fulbright Grant in 20012002 as an International Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He received his Certificate in Film as a French Government scholar at the Atelier du formacion au cinema direct in Paris, France (1981 1989). He graduated Cum Laude with a degree in A.B. Theater Arts at the University of the Philippines (19771981). Named as a Scholar-in Residence at the New York University in 1998, he has been accorded various international academic honors, among them: Chancellors Most Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine; International Fellow at the University of Iowa; International Fellow of the Japan Foundation; Asia Society (New York) Travel Grantee; British Council Fellow; and Artist-in-Residence at the Walker Arts Center, Minnesota. In 2001, he was among the first to be awarded the Asian Public Intellectual (API) Fellowships by the Nippon Foundation. Deocampo is the author of several groundbreaking and prizewinning books in cinema: the pioneering Short Film: Emergence of a New Philippine Cinema (Manila: Communication Foundation for Asia, 1985) [Translated into El Cortometraje: Surgimiento de un nuevo cine filipino (Bilbao: Certamen Internacional del cine documental y cortometraje de Bilbao, 1986)]; Beyond the Mainstream: The Films of Nick Deocampo (Winner of the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle, 1997). He is currently writing a monumental five-volume history of Philippine cinema. The first volume Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2003) won for Deocampo his second National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle, 2003. Next year, his second volume on cinema in the Philippines during the period of American occupation will be published. As an international scholar and writer, his articles have been published in various important publications: Encyclopedia of Early Cinema edited by Richard Abel (Routledge Press: London and New York); Vestiges of War (The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 18991999) edited by Angel Shaw and Luis Francia (New York University Press, USA); Queer Looks edited by Martha Gever, John Greyson and Pratibha Parmar (Routledge Press, London and New York); Documentary Box published by the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan); Making Documentaries and News Features in the Philippines edited by James Kenny and Isabel Enriquez Kenny (Anvil Press, Philippines), Deocampos API travel to various Asian countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Japan has greatly inspired his recent project to bring various Philippine islands film programs that are exhibited in urban schools as well as remote village communities. In a year, he organizes three major film festivals and visits more than 15 islands and sites attracting thousands to watch Filipino and foreign film classics, premiere new works and launch independent productions. He too organizes seminars and workshops and distributes faculty manuals to teachers to help remote audiences to appreciate the art of cinema.

In his chosen field of filmmaking, he is the only Filipino who has served the most number of times as a member of the international film jury in film festivals held in Berlin, Rotterdam (Holland), Hawaii, Bilbao (Spain), Singapore, Oberhausen (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Brisbane (Australia), New Delhi (India), Pusan (South Korea), Yamagata (Japan) and the New York University Student Film Festival. For his outstanding achievements in cinema, he was awarded the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award in Kobe, Japan (1993) after receiving the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Award in the Philippines (1992). He has also received prestigious recognition from his country, among them a Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to Philippine cinema from the Filipino Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Lamberto Avellana

Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines. The International Biographical Society in Cambridge, England has named Deocampo among the Whos Who of the 21st Century. Known for his gritty documentaries and personal films, he won the Grand Prize in Brussels in 1987 for his trailblazing documentary trilogy: Oliver (1983), Children of the Regime (1985) and Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (1986). His films are damning documents of lives lived under the military dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. He won two more documentary awards in Brussels for A Legacy of Violence and The Sex Warriors and the Samurai. The last film also won the Special Mention Award for the Best Asian Documentary in Tokyo. Other awards include the Prix du court metrage (Best Short Film) in Fribourg, Switzerland for Memories of Old Manila and the Audience Prize in Yamagata, Japan for his autobiographical film, Private Wars. With a teaching experience in various universities such as the University of the Philippines, De La Salle University, and the Ateneo de Manila University, Deocampo is presently the director of Center for New Cinema (CNC). Books Lost Films of Asia is the title of a new book published by the South East Asia Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) to raise public awareness of the regions most important films that either have been lost or are missing.The introduction by Nick Deocampo, a Filipino prizewinning filmmaker and writer, brings to the attention of the readers the precarious situation of films which he refers to as cultural genocide. Launched 110 years after the first viewing of film in Asia, the book is a valuable reference on 42 lost films from Australia to Viet Nam. Black and white photos from the lost films accompany the respective short descriptions making reading a pictorial journey into the past.To encourage a climate of support for film preservation, Lost Films of Asia includes an article by Ray Edmondson titled The Role of Archives in Saving (and Defining) Early Films. The article reasons why archives and archivists are necessary and offers a glimpse of what they have done to bring to the audience today the images of the bygone days. Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines fathoms the depths of Philippine cinema as the author ventures into the largely unknown terrain of the country's history of early cinema. With meticulous scholarship and engaging insights, prizewinning filmmaker and author Nick Deocampo investigates the origin and formation of cinema as it became the Filipinos' preeminent entertainment and cultural form. Beyond The Mainstream: The Films of Nick Deocampo includes Deocampo's awardwinning documentary film scripts as well as production notes and essays on short filmmaking. It comes with photographs. The book received the 1997 National Book Award for Screenplay.

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez (September 8, 1915November 28, 1999) was a Filipino writer of fiction, poetry and essays and one of the National Artists of the Philippines for Literature. Celebrated internationally, his works have been published in Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Bahasa Indonesia.

Gonzalez was born on 8 September 1915 in Romblon, Philippines to Vicente Gonzalez, a school supervisor, and Pastora Madali, a teacher. When he was four or five, the family moved to Mindoro, where Gonzalez continued his education, later going to Mindoro High School. In his teens he began helping his father in his meat business by making deliveries. After taking and failing the University of the Philippines entrance examinations, he fell back on this work for a while, along with playing his violin. Yet he also began writing, walking for five hours from his home in Wasig to Mansalay where he could type his work at the municipal hall then send it to the Philippine Graphic. While in Manila, Gonzlez wrote for the Philippine Graphic and later edited for the Evening News Magazine and Manila Chronicle. His first published essay appeared in the Philippine Graphic and his first poem in Poetry in 1934. Gonzlez made his mark in the Philippine writing community as a member of the Board of Advisers of Likhaan: the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center, founding editor of The Diliman Review and as the first president of the Philippine Writers' Association. Gonzlez attended creative writing classes under Wallace Stegner and Katherine Anne Porter at Stanford University. In 1950, Gonzlez returned to the Philippines and taught at the University of Santo Tomas, the Philippine Women's University and the University of the Philippines (U.P.). At U.P., Gonzlez was only one of two faculty members accepted to teach in the university without holding a degree. On the basis of his literary publications and distinctions, Gonzlez later taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California State University, Hayward, the University of Washington, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley. Works The works of Gonzalez have been published in Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Indonesian language. Novels

The Winds of April (1941) A Season of Grace (1956) The Bamboo Dancers (1988) Short fiction A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997 The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993; University of the Philippines Press, 1993 Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989 Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964 Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963 Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classics, 1992 Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947 Essays

A Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Anvil (popular edition), 1996 Work on the Mountain (Includes The Father and the Maid, Essays on Filipino Life and Letters and Kalutang: A Filipino in the World), University of the Philippines Press, 1996 "the wireless tower (N.V.M. Gonzalez)

Awards and prizes

Regents Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, 1998-1999 Philippines Centennial Award for Literature, 1998 National Artist Award for Literature, 1997

Oriental Mindoro Sangguniang Panlalawigan Resolution "extending due recognition to Nestor V. M. Gonzlez... the commendation he well deserves..." 1996 City of Manila Diwa ng Lahi award "for his service and contribution to Philippine national Literature," 1996 City of Los Angeles resolution declaring October 11, 1996 "N.V.M. Gonzlez Day, 1996 The Asian Catholic Publishers Award, 1993 The Filipino Community of California Proclamation "honoring N.V.M. Gonzlez for seventy-eight years of achievements," 1993 Ninoy Aquino Movement for Social and Economic Reconstruction through Volunteer Service award, 1991 City and County of San Francisco proclamation of March 7, 1990 "Professor N.V.M. Gonzlez Day in San Francisco," 1990 Cultural Center of the Philippines award, Gawad Para sa Sining, 1990 Writers Union of the Philippines award, Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagts, 1989 University of the Philippines International Writer-in-Residence, 1988 Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) from the University of the Philippines, 1987 Djerassi Foundation Artist-in-Residence, 1986 Philippine Foreign Service Certificate of Appreciation for Work in the International Academic and Literary Community, at San Francisco, 1983 Emeritus Professor of English, California State University, 1982 Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), First Prize for 'The Tomato Game,' 1971 City of Manila Medal of Honor, 1971. Philippines Free Press First Prize Award winner for Serenade (short story), 1964. Rockefeller Foundation Writing Grant and Travel in Europe, 1964 Jose Rizal Pro-Patria Award for The Bamboo Dancers, 1961 Republic Cultural Heritage Award for The Bamboo Dancers, 1960 Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), Third Prize winner for On the Ferry, 1959 Philippine Free Press Third Prize winner for On the Ferry, 1959 Republic Award of Merit for "the advancement of Filipino culture in the field of English Literature," 1954. Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), Second Prize winner for Lupo and the River, 1953 Rockefeller Foundation Study and Travel fellowship to India and the Far East, 1952 Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), Second Prize winner for Children of the Ash-covered Loam, 1952 Rockefeller Foundation Writing Fellowship to Stanford University, Kenyon College School of English, and Columbia University, 1949-1950 Liwayway Short Story Contest, Third Prize winner for Lunsod, Nayon at Dagatdagatan, 1943 First Commonwealth Literary Contest honorable mention for The Winds of April, 1940

Melba Padilla Maggay

Dr. Melba Padilla Maggay is a Filipino anthropologist, activist, author, and essayist. She is a three time winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Dr. Maggay is also the President and Founder of the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture (ISACC), a church-based non-government organization engaged in popular education and development in the Philippines. She is the author of numerous books on Filipino religious culture, writing from the perspective of an Evangelical Christian. She also edits PATMOS magazine, a regular publication of ISACC. Early life and education

Born in 1950, Maggay received her Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication (cum laude), Master's Degree in English Literature, and PhD in Philippine Studies all from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was also a research fellow in Cross-cultural Communication with specific application to theological formulations and biblical studies at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of Tyndale House. Palanca Award Winner In 1997, Dr. Maggay received her first Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award, when her "Mother of Stories" received first prize for Essay in English. She later won the first prize in that category in the 1999 and 2002 Palanca Awards, for the essays "Once Upon a Bright Happy Boy" and "Death and Early Sorrow," respectively.

Publications
Some of Dr. Maggay's books include:

Maggay, Melba Padilla; George De Jesus, Bienvenido Lumbera (January 2003). Tatlong Sarsuwela. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. pp. 207. ISBN 9715423698. Maggay, Melba Padilla; George De Jesus, Bienvenido Lumbera (January 2002). Kagawiang Pangkomunikasyon Ng Filipino. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press. pp. 238. ISBN 9715504191. Maggay, Melba Padilla (2001). Raja Sulaiman was no Carabao: Understanding the Muslim Question. Manila: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. Maggay, Melba Padilla (2001). Jew to the Jew, Greek to the Greek: Reflections on Culture and Globalization. Quezon City: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. Maggay, Melba Padilla (2001). Diyata't Isang Sanggol:Isang Dula at Kantata para sa Pasko. Quezon City: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. Maggay, Melba Padilla (1999). Understanding Ambiguity in Filipino Communication Patterns. Quezon City: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. Maggay, Melba Padilla (1999). Filipino Religious Consciousness: Some Implications for Missions. Quezon City: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. Maggay, Melba Padilla (1996). Transforming Society. Quezon City: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. Maggay, Melba Padilla (1993). Pagbabalik-loob: Moral recovery and cultural reaffirmation. Quezon City: Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture. Maggay, Melba Padilla (January 1990). A Faith for the Emptiness of Our Time. Manila: OMF Literature. pp. 121. ISBN 9715111718. Maggay, Melba Padilla (May 1989). Communicating Cross-Culturally : Towards a New Context for Missions in the Philippines. Manila: Cellar Book Shop. pp. 61. ISBN 9711003503. Maggay, Melba Padilla (January 1987). The Gospel in Filipino Context. Manila: OMF Literature. pp. 31. ISBN 971511105X.

Marciano Guzman
Marciano Guzman was a Filipino poet, philosopher and certified public accountant. He is also a best-selling author of Catholic books, a winner of the Catholic Mass Media Award. He was also a member of the governing body of Opus Dei in the Philippines from 1992 until his death on 28 May 2009. He has a doctorate in Journalism and Philosophy from universities in Spain and Italy. Breaking into Light, his collection of 100 selected poems, was published by the University

of Asia and the Pacific in Manila. His poetry has appeared mostly in Philippine national print publications like Philippines Free Press, Solidarity and Philippine Graphic, among others. More recent credits include U.S. online magazines like Flutter Poetry Journal, Static Movement, The Monongahela Review, and Slow Trains Literary Journal. He used his literary talents most by writing some best-selling Catechisms, the most popular of which was Guide to Christian Living. He wrote many columns for newspapers on Catholic doctrine in language understandable to the ordinary person in the street. Many of these columns found their ways into books used in Religion classes in schools. He was the first chaplain of the PAREF Woodrose School, the first school of Parents for Education Foundation. Bishop Javier Echevarria, Prelate of Opus Dei, appointed him on 2 November 1992 as Regional Vice Priest Secretary of Opus Dei in the Philippines, a leading member of the governing body in the entire country, in charge of the apostolate with women. He is the great grandnephew of the Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal, because the mother of his maternal grandmother was Soledad, a sister of Rizal. His full name is Marciano Malvar Guzman, since he is also a descendant of General Miguel Malvar, the last Filipino general to surrender to the American forces during the Philippine-American War. His mother is Josefina Malvar Guzman, daughter of Bernabe Malvar, son of the general. He wrote papers, articles and a book about Jose Rizal, specially dealing with Rizal's Retraction, entitled Hard Facts About Rizal's Conversion Works

Breaking into Light Question and Answer Catechism Guide to Christian Belief Guide to Christian Sanctification Transforming hearts and structures : current and perennial issues on social ethics Light for Lives: Current Issues on Moral Values Queries and Replies on Love, Life, and Religion Hard Facts About Rizal's Conversion

Norberto Romuldez
Norberto Romuldez y Lpez (June 6, 1875 - November 4, 1941) (often referred to as Norberto Romuldez, Sr. to distinguish him from his son with the same name) was a Philippine writer, politician, jurist and statesman. He was the first Romuldez to attain national prominence, and is deemed the "Father of the Law on the National Language". He was the

uncle of Imelda Marcos, the daughter of his youngest brother Vicente Orestes. Romuldez grew up in Leyte to miguel romualdez and first achieved status as a writer in the Waray-Waray language. His first Waray zarzuela was An Pagtabang ni San Miguel (The Aid of Saint Michael). In 1908, Romuldez wrote Bisayan Grammar and Notes on Bisayan Rhetoric and Poetic and Filipino Dialectology, a treatise on the grammar of the Waray-Waray language. The following year (1909) he founded the Sanghiran san Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte (Academy of the Visayan Language of Samar and Leyte) for the purpose of promoting and intellectualizing Waray-Waray. Romuldez was also fluent in other languages like Spanish, English, and Cebuano. Romuldez served as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court during the American Period. He was also a participant in the 1934-1935 Constitutional Convention which resulted in the 1935 Constitution for the Philippine Commonwealth. Romuldez died in 1941 after an undisclosed illness. Writings Linguistics

Bisayan Grammar

Drama

An Pagtabang ni San Miguel (The Aid of Saint Michael) An Anak han Manaranggot (The Tuba Gatherer's Child)

Potenciano Alino
Potenciano Alino (died 1909) was a well-known Cebuano Visayan writer. He is credited for having first translated Jose Rizal's Mi Ultimo Adios (Kataposan nga Panamilit). [[ He is a member of the Great ALIO CLAN of Cebu City. He is a descendant of the First King of Cebu province - SRI LO MAI, whose descendant is the well known, Raja Humabon.

Potenciano's ancestor is Raja Humabon's brother, TUPAS, who cannot succeed as king of Cebu as he was a cripple since birth and not fitted to be king. But the brothers had an agreement that the next king of Cebu would be the eldest son of Tupas, but consequently, the Spaniards came and took over leadership of the whole archipelago. Tupas was the first to bear the name ALIO. POTENCIANO is one of the noted TRES ALIOS of Talisay, Cebu, which gave them honor by naming a street in Talisay after them. They are the actual leader of the revolution against the Spaniards during their last remaining years in the Philippines. They even fought against the Americans and never surrendered to their last breath.The other guerrillas happened to collaborate with the Americans and was honored and given rewards by their enemies. His brothers, Felix and Hilario, fought alongside with him in their cause. Other known brothers were Gervacio and Valentin. the first encounter against the Americans happened in Badian town in southwestern Cebu. A brother was captured by Muslim pirates and was brought to Jolo, Sulo and married an Imam's daughter. other descendants went to Mindanao and established their own families. Potenciano was known to be a good sailor. he was a skipper of a ship which traveled up north. He even spent some time in Nueva Ecija and the Ilocos regions and sired a number of children. The Tres Alios were known to possess magical powers and were strong physically. they even bent prison bars during their imprisonment and get away. They were in hiding most of the time during the wars. When his wife died, he wore a woman's dress and went to the wake as a woman. nobody noticed him during that visit. Some well known descendants of The ALIO CLAN, are The Former AFP Chief of Staff, General Lisandro Abadia, General Loven Abadia, Former Police Director General Santiago Alio, General George Alio.]]

Paz Mrquez-Bentez
Paz Mrquez-Bentez (18941983) was a Filipina short-story writer. Born in 1894 in Lucena City, Quezon, Marquez - Bentez authored the first Filipino modern English-language short story, Dead

Stars, published in the Philippine Herald in 1925. Born into the prominent Marquez family of Quezon province, she was among the first generation of Filipinos trained in the American education system which used English as the medium of instruction. She graduated high school in Tayabas High School (now, Quezon National High School) and college from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. She was a member of the first freshman class of the University of the Philippines, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. Two years after graduation, she married UP College of Education Dean Francisco Bentez, with whom she had four children. Mrquez-Bentez later became a teacher at the University of the Philippines, who taught short-story writing and had become an influential figure to many Filipino writers in the English language, such as Loreto Paras-Sulit, Paz M. Latorena, Arturo B. Rotor, Bienvenido N. Santos and Francisco Arcellana. The annually held Paz Marquez-Benitez Lectures in the Philippines honors her memory by focusing on the contribution of Filipino women writers to Philippine Literature in the English language. Though she only had one more published short story after Dead Stars entitled "A Night In The Hills", she made her mark in Philippine literature because her work is considered the first modern Philippine short story. For Marquez-Benitez, writing was a life-long occupation. In 1919 she founded "Woman's Home Journal", the first women's magazine in the country. "Filipino Love Stories", reportedly the first anthology of Philippine stories in English by Filipinos, was compiled in 1928 by Marquez-Benitez from the works of her students. When her husband died in 1951, she took over as editor of the Philippine Journal of Education at UP. She held the editorial post for over two decades. In 1995, her daughter, Virginia Benitez-Licuanan wrote her biography, "Paz Marquez-Benitez: One Woman's Life, Letters, and Writings."

Ponciano B. Peralta Pineda

Ponciano B. Peralta Pineda is a Filipino writer, teacher, linguist and lawyer. Ponciano Pineda is considered as the "Father of the Commission on Filipino Language" for his promotion to establish a commission based on Section 9 of our Philippine Constitution.

He became director of Commission on the Filipino Language (Filipino: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino) formerly Surian ng Wikang Pambansa during the year 1971 to 1999. Under his leadership, Pineda started socio-linguistic research to further widen the Filipino Language. Also one of this is about the orthographic reform in the Filipino Language. Under Pineda one major change is on language policy: a bilingual education in the year 1974; Filipino as national and primary language of Filipinos in 1983 and the Filipino alphabet comprising 28 letters in 1987. He established 12 regional centers of the Filipino language throughout the Philippines. The Philippine Dictionary (1973) by Jose Villa Panganiban and the Centennial Dictionary;; of the Commission on the Filipino Language (1998) was edited by Ponciano B. Pineda. He published the Dictionary for Filipino language, which served as the foundation of national lexicography. With the help of former secretary of the Department of Filipino, Jose Villa Panganiban, Pineda finished his studies at the University of Santo Tomas in 1948 in the course of Associate in Arts. Furthermore, he also became the director of The Varsitarian. Besides being the author of academic books, Pineda is also a filipinologist or an expert in Filipino culture. Among his literary works are Pagpupulong: Mga Tuntunin At Pamamaraan, Pandalubhasaanj Sining Ng Komunikasyon and Sining Ng Komunikasyon Para Sa Mataas Na Paaralan. The Gawad Palanca awarded him the first and second prize for his short stories Ang Mangingisda (1958) and Malalim ang Gabi (1953) respectively.

Pete Lacaba
Jose Maria Flores Lacaba , popularly known as Pete Lacaba, is a multi-awarded Filipino film writer, editor, poet, screenwriter, journalist and translator .

Born in Cagayan de Oro in 1945 to Jose Monreal Lacaba of Loon, Bohol and Fe Flores from Pateros, Rizal, he is one of the leading figures in Philippine literature today. He is known in various fields, including creative writing, journalism, editing and scriptwriting.

Lacaba was recognized for his coverage of the First Quarter Storm in 1970, which was an anti- Marcos movement. During the Martial Law, Lacaba fought President Ferdinand Marcos and his US-backed military dictatorship. Under the nom de plum Ruben Cuevas, Lacaba published his poem Prometheus Unbound at Focus, a magazine that had allied itself with the Marcos regime. He worked with known directors like Lino Brocka and Mike de Leon in producing films that exposes ordinary people's lives that experienced poverty and injustice. He continued writing poems, and in 1999, was decorated as one of 100 "Bayani ng Sining". Lacaba is currently the executive editor of Summit Media's YES! magazine, the sister publication of PEP. His screenplay credits include Jaguar, which competed at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1980, while Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim competed in 1984. Orapronobis was screened out of competition in 1989. Ricky Lee co-wrote Jaguar with Lacaba. In honor of Lacaba for being the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Awardee, the classic film Bayan Ko will be screened as the closing film of Dekada Cinemanila. According to Anima Aguiluz, the daughter of Direk Tikoy and festival programmer of Cinemanila, they found a copy of Bayan Ko in Toronto, Canada.
Works Writer Tatsulok (1998) (writer) ... aka Triangle (International: English title) Rizal sa Dapitan (1997) (screenplay)... aka Rizal in Dapitan Segurista (1996) (writer)... aka Dead Sure ... aka The Insurance Agent (International: English title) Eskapo (1995) (screenplay) ... aka Escape (Philippines: English title: literal title) ... aka Eskapo (Philippines: English title: short title) ... aka Eskapo: The Serge Osmena-Geny Lopez Story (Philippines: Tagalog title: long title) Bagong bayani (1995) (writer)... aka A New Hero (Philippines: English title)... aka Flor Contemplacion's Last Wish ... aka Unsung Heroine (USA) Orapronobis (1989) (writer)... aka Fight for Us... aka Insoumis, Les (France) Victor Corpuz (1987) (writer)... aka Get Victor Corpus: The Rebel Soldier (Philippines: English title) Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim (1985) (story and screenplay) ... aka Bayan Ko: My Own Country (Philippines: English title) ... aka Kapit sa patalim, bayan ko (Philippines: Tagalog title) Experience (1984) (writer) Sister Stella L. (1984) (screenplay) Boatman (1984) (additional dialogue)... aka Bangkero, Ang (Philippines: Tagalog title: promotional title)

Roy V. Aragon

Roy V. Aragon (born October 31, 1968) is a Filipino writer writing in Iloko and Filipino languages. He is an award-winning fictionist and poet, and a translator. Among his awards and prizes are a third and second prizes in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature's short story writing contest in the Iloko and Filipino divisions, respectively, in 1999 and 2001. He has also won numerous prizes in Ilokano literary contests such as Gov. Roque Ablan Awards for Iloko Literature (GRAAFIL). He has published most of his short stories, poems and feature articles in Bannawag, the leading Iloko magazine in the Philippines. He is a member of GUMIL Filipinas, the leading association of Ilokano writers which is considered the most active regional writer's group in the Philippines. He is a native of Mabasa, Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya. Works

Short Stories: "Siak ni Kafka, Pusa," "Garami, Bislak, Bamban ken Padeppa," "Sirikit," "Maysa a Malem iti Paraiso," "Panungpalan," "Mijar Vadil, Mannurat: Taga-Dupax" "Ang Baliw ng Bayan ng Sili"

Awards

Palanca Awards Talaang Ginto-Gantimpalang Collantes, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino Gov. Roque Ablan Awards for Iloko Literature (GRAAFIL)

Reynaldo A. Duque

Reynaldo A. Duque (born October 29, 1945) is a multilingual Ilokano writer (he writes in Iloko, Filipino, and English), is the former editor-in-chief of Liwayway magazine, the leading Filipino (Tagalog) weekly magazine in the Philippines. He is a fictionist, novelist, poet, playwright, radio/TV/movie scriptwriter, editor, and translator. A multi-awarded author, among his numerous literary decorations is the Palanca Hall of Fame Award bestowed on him in 2003 for having won five first prizes in the prestigious Palanca Awards. He is also first prize winner in Filipino Epic in the 1998 Centennial Literary Awards sponsored by the Philippine Government. He is a native of Bagani Ubbog, Candon City. Awards

Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Writing Grants Palanca Awards Talaang Ginto-Gantimpalang Collantes Centennial Literary Awards Pedro Bucaneg Award Gov. Roque Ablan Awards for Iloko Literature (GRAAFIL)

F. Sionil Jos

F. Sionil Jos or in full Francisco Sionil Jos (born December 3, 1924) is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. Jos's works - written in English - have been translated into 22 languages, including Korean, Indonesian, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch. Jos was born in Rosales, Pangasinan, the setting of many of his stories. He spent his childhood in Barrio Cabugawan, Rosales, where he first began to write. Jos was of Ilocano descent whose family had migrated to Pangasinan before his birth. Fleeing poverty, his forefathers traveled from Ilocos towards Cagayan Valley through the Santa Fe Trail. Like many migrant families, they brought their lifetime possessions with them, including uprooted molave posts of their old houses and their alsong, a stone mortar for pounding rice. One of the greatest influences to Jos was his industrious mother who went out of her way to get him the books he loved to read, while making sure her family did not go hungry despite of poverty and landlessness. Jos started writing in grade school, at the time he started reading. In the fifth grade, one of Joss teachers opened the school library to her students, which is how Jos managed to read the novels of Jos Rizal, Willa Cathers My Antonia, Faulkner and Steinbeck. Reading about Basilio and Crispin in Rizals Noli Me Tangere made the young Jos cry, because injustice was not an alien thing to him. When Jos was five years old, his grandfather who was a soldier during the Philippine revolution, had once tearfully showed him the land their family had once tilled but was taken away by rich mestizo landlords who knew how to work the system against illiterates like his grandfather

Works Rosales Saga novels A five-novel series that spans three centuries of Philippine history, widely read around the world and translated into 22 languages Po-on (Dusk) (1984) ISBN 9718845100 The Pretenders (1962) ISBN 9718845003 My Brother, My Executioner (1973) ISBN 971884516X Mass (December 31, 1974) ISBN 0868615722 Tree (1978) ISBN 9718845143 Original novels containing the Rosales Saga Dusk (Po-on) (1993) ISBN 0375751440 Don Vicente (1980) ISBN 0375752439 - Tree and My Brother, My Executioner combined in one book The Samsons ISBN 0375752447- The Pretenders and Mass combined in one book Other novels Gagamba (The Spider Man) (1991) ISBN 971536105645 Viajero (1993) ISBN 971884504689 Sin (1994) ISBN 0517284464 Ben Singkol (2001) ISBN 9718845321 Ermita ISBN 9718845127 Vibora! (2007) Sherds (2008) Muse and Balikbayan: Two Plays (2008) Short Stories (with Introduction and Teaching Guide by Thelma B. Kintanar) (2008)

Short story collection

The God Stealer and Other Short Stories (2001) ISBN 9718845356

Puppy Love and Other Short Stories (March 15, 1998) ISBN 9718845267 and ISBN 978-9718845264 Olvidon and Other Stories (1988) ISBN 9718845186 Platinum: Ten Filipino Stories (1983) ISBN 9718845224 (now out of print, its stories are added to the new version of Olvidon and Other Stories) Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short Stories (1980) ISBN 999228840X Asian PEN Anthology (as editor) (1966) Short Story International (SSI): Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers (Unabridged, Volume 13, Number 75) (co-author, 1989) ISBN 1555730426

Children's books

The Molave and The Orchid (November 2004)

Verses

Questions (1988)

Essays and non-fiction

In Search of the Word (De La Salle University Press, March 15, 1998) ISBN 9715552641 and ISBN 978-9715552646 We Filipinos: Our Moral Malaise, Our Heroic Heritage Soba, Senbei and Shibuya: A Memoir of Post-War Japan ISBN 9718845313 and ISBN 978-9718845318 Heroes in the Attic, Termites in the Sala: Why We are Poor (2005) This I Believe: Gleanings from a Life in Literature (2006) Literature and Liberation (co-author) (1988)

Rogelio R. Sikat

Rogelio R. Sikat (also known as Rogelio Scat) (19401997) is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. He was born to Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez on June 26, 1940 in Alua, San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He is the sixth of eight children. Sicat graduated with a B.Litt. in Journalism from the University of Santo Tomas and an M.A. in Filipino from the University of the Philippines. Sikat received numerous literary prizes but he was particularly remembered for "Impeng Negro", his 1962 Palanca awardwinning short fiction in Filipino (Tagalog). Many of his ground-breaking stories first appeared in Liwayway, a long-running magazine with a particularly strong Tagalog literary section. A posthumous appreciation of Sicat's achievements were highlighted by award-winning writer Lilia Quindoza-Santiago in Living and Dying as a Writer." The article appeared in Pen & Ink III. Sikat was University Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines in Diliman from 1991 to 1994. U.P. College of Mass Communication Professor Angelito Tiongson worked on a feature film Isang Munting Lupa based on Sicat's Tata Selo, another prizewinning story . Playwright and film/theater director Auraeus Solito, on the other hand, created a short film narrative based on "Impeng Negro" in 1999. Sikat was posthumously awarded by the Manila Critics Circle with a National Book Award for Translation in 1998.

Pura Santillan-Castrence

Pura Santillan-Castrence (March 24, 1905 January 15, 2007) was a Filipino writer and diplomat. Of Filipino women writers, she was among the first to gain prominence writing in the English language. She was named a Chevalier de Lgion d'honneur by the French government. Early life She was born in Manila in March 1905. She studied pharmacy and chemistry at the University of the Philippines, where she taught after her graduation in 1927. She pursued further studies in the University of Michigan on a Barbour scholarship. Literary career Santillan-Castrence's literary career began in the 1920s, and she soon was recognized as among the leading Filipino essayists of the 20th century. Many of her essays were featured in Philippine Prose and Poetry a widely studied high-school textbook which she had authored. She became a columnist with the Manila Daily Bulletin, and contributed essays and articles in many other national publications. She explored feminist themes in works such as The Women Characters in Rizals Novels, a study on the female characters in Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Fluent in at least six languages, Santillan-Castrence also gained renown as a translator of French and German texts that were useful to students of Filipino history, such as The Philippines, History, Geography, Customs, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce of the Spanish Colonies in Oceania, an 1846 French-language book written by a French explorer. Diplomat Santillan-Castrence first joined the foreign service as the Chief of the Translation Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. After the war, she held various positions within the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 1959, she was designated to the Philippine embassy at Bonn, then the capital of West Germany.[ In 1964, Santillan-Castrence was appointed the DFA Assistant Secretary for Cultural Affairs, with rank of Ambassador, by President Diosdado Macapagal. She remained in that post through the first term of President Ferdinand Marcos, and until her retirement. Later years Late in life, Santillan-Castrence moved to Melbourne, Australia. At age 94, she was contracted to write a regular column for the Bayanihan News and the Manila Mail, publications which catered to Filipino expatriates. By then legally blind, she dictated her columns, which proved to be popular. She wrote critically against the Iraq War[8] and on the ties between the United States of America and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.At age 100, she published a compilation of these articles in a book entitled As I See It: Filipinos and the Philippines. Santillan-Castrence died aged 101 in January 2007, just one month before she was slated to receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Commission on Culture and the Arts. She was one of few Filipino centenarians to have become famous in her own right.

Rafael R. Roces, Jr.

Rafael "Liling" R. Roces, Jr. (October 12, 1912 - August 28, 1944) is a Filipino journalist, writer, patriot, World War II spy, hero, and martyr. He is the son of Rafael Filomeno Roces, Sr. (the publishing house owner and proprietor of the Ideal Theater on Avenida Rizal in Manila, Philippines) and Inocencia "Enchay" Reyes. A Manileo, Liling Roces studied at the Ateneo de Manila University. Liling Roces married Leonor Noring Varona on January 13, 1937. He had two children, namely Sylvia Roces-Montilla (born Jan 31, 1938) and Antonio Rafael "Tony" Roces. (After Liling Rocess death, Leonor Varona later remarried with Aurelio Montinola, Sr.. During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, Liling Roces spied for the American troops Commander George Rowe. After a SPYRON courier was caught by Japanese soldiers, Liling Roces, among others, were suspected of providing information to George Rowe and Lt. Commander Charles "Chick" Parsons. Liling Roces was imprisoned and tortured by the Kempeitai in Fort Santiago. On August 28, 1944, Liling Roces, other prisoners, and twentythree other members of the resistance were boarded onto a truck and brought to the Cementerio del Norte (North Cemetery) of Manila. Roces and his companions were beheaded and buried in one common ground.

Rafael Palma

Rafael Palma was a Filipino politician, Rizalian, reporter, writer, educator and a famous mason in Philippines. He also became the fourth President of the University of the Philippines. Honor

A building at the University of the Philippines, Diliman was named after him (Palma Hall). Today, the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy resides in this building.

University of Bohol, a private school in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines was named after Rafael Palma College in 1946 until it was changed into University of Bohol.

There are many schools in the country which are named after Rafael Palma, like Rafael Palma Elementary School City of Makati and Rafael Palma Elementary School, Zobel Roxas Street, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Barangay Rafael Palma Real Estate Property which is situated in Diffun Town, Quirino Province, Cagayan Valley Region, the Philippines.

Books Palma wrote a biography of Dr. Jose P. Rizal which Justice Roman Ozaeta translated to English with the title "The Pride of the Malay Race. "

The Woman and the Right to Vote by Rafael Palma. The new mentality by Rafael Palma , 1929.

Rogelio Ordoez

Rogelio Lunasco Ordoez (born September 24, 1940) is a Filipino writer known in the Philippines for being one of the authors of the iconic Tagalog literature anthology "Mga Agos sa Disyerto" in the 1960s. A former writer in the reputable but now-defunct Liwayway Magazine,PILIPINO FREE PRESS, ASIA-PHILIPPINES LEADER, PILOSOPONG TASYO, and DIARIO UNO, he has written fictions and non-fiction articles that won distinction from different literary organizations. Early years Ordoez was born in Imus, Cavite. He studied in the Mapua Institute of Technology and the Manuel L. Quezon University and obtained a BS in Civil Engineering. Drawn to the Filipino literature that focused on the reality of life,especially about the workers and peasants and the downtrodden or the oppressed, Ordoez concentrated in writing instead of practicing his degree. He wrote many fictions, most notably short stories, in Liwayway, Pilipino Free Press, Asia-Philippines Leader and literary journals. His first short story appeared in Liwayway when he was still in high school. Keen in teaching and molding new-generation writers, he took up his MA in Mass Communication from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Career In the course of his writing career that has spanned for four decades, he became a member and former head of the Cavite Press Club, Philippine Writers Academy, Pambansang Unyon ng Manunulat (PANULAT), and the Pambansang Linangan at Ugnayan ng mga Manunulat (PLUMA), Ordoez has worked as secretary-general of the PUP Creative Writing Center, professorial lecturer, and columnist. Ordoez has garnered top prizes from Liwayway itself, the Jos Rizal Centennial Commission in 1961, the Kadipan (an inter-university association of Tagalog writers and instructors), the Balagtas Memorial Awards for Journalism (held in honor of the poet-hero Francisco Balagtas). He was bestowed by UMPIL (Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas) the National Achievement Award for Literature (GAWAD PAMBANSANG ALAGAD NI BALAGTAS). He was also the recipient, in 2009, of the GAWAD HEN. EMILIO AGUINALDO ( Natatanging Parangal sa Rebolusyonaryong Caviteo) as the Progresibong Caviteo in the field of Literature. On the 234th founding anniversary of the town of Imus, Cavite (Oct. 7, 2009), he was bestowed the GAWAD HEN. JUAN S. CASTAEDA as an outstanding Imuseo also in the field of Literature. He has authored numerous fiction, articles and criticisms in ASIA-PHILIPPINES LEADER and Pilipino FREE PRESS, both of which he worked for as staff member.

Teodoro Agoncillo

Teodoro A. Agoncillo (November 9, 1912 January 14, 1985) was a 20th-century Filipino historian. He and his contemporary Renato Constantino were among the first Filipino historians renowned for promoting a distinctly nationalist point of view of Filipino history (nationalist historiography). He was also an essayist and a poet. Life Born in Lemery Batangas, Agoncillo obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of the Philippines in 1934 and a master's degree in the arts from the same university the following year. He earned his living as a linguistic assistant at the Institute of National Language and as an instructor at the Far Eastern University and the Manuel L. Quezon University. In 1956, he published his seminal work, Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan, a history of the 1896 Katipunan-led revolt against Spanish rule and its leader, Andres Bonifacio. He garnered acclaim for this book, as well as criticisms from more conservative historians discomfited by the work's nationalist bent. In 1958, Agoncillo was invited to join the faculty of the Department of History of his alma mater, the University of the Philippines. He remained with the university until his retirement in 1977, chairing the Department of History from 1963 to 1969. Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal named Agoncillo as a member of the National Historical Institute in 1963. He served in this capacity until his death in 1985. Agoncillo's History of the Filipino People, first published in 1960, remains a popular standard textbook in many Filipino universities, as are many of Agoncillo's other works. This is despite Agoncillo's controversial tone and for his perceived leftist bent. Gregorio Zaide, Teodoro Agoncillo, Reynaldo Ileto and Renato Constantino stand as the most prominent 20th-century Filipino historians to emerge during the post-war period. It must be noted however, that Agoncillo's works suffer from uneven scholarship throughout, especially with his use (or especially, non-use) of reliable historical sources Works

The Revolt of the Masses - (a biography of Andres Bonifacio) Malolos Crisis of the Republic - (sequel to Revolt of the Masses which discusses the events from Biak-na-Bato to the end of the Philippine-American War) The Fateful Years - (Philippine history during World War II) The History of the Filipino People

Loreto Paras-Sulit

Loreto Paras-Sulit (December 10, 1908 April 23, 2008) was a Filipino writer best known for her English-language short stories. Biography Paras-Sulit was born in Ermita, Manila.[1] After finishing her secondary education in Manila, she entered the University of the Philippines, where she first gained notice for her short fiction. While at the University, she co-founded the U.P. Writer's Club in 1927 along with other student-writers such as Arturo Rotor and Jose Garcia Villa. She graduated with a Bachelor of Sciences degree in education, magna cum laude, in 1930. Paras-Sulit would join the faculty of Florentino Torres High School as an English teacher[1] while maintaining an active writing career. She was a member of the Philippine Writers Association and the Literary Guild of the Philippines. In the 1940s, she joined the Philippine National Red Cross, of which she served as secretary-general for several decades. While at the Red Cross, she shifted her focus to short stories for children, publishing several works of that variety at the Philippine Junior Red Cross Magazine. She retired from public life after retiring from the Red Cross, dying in April, 2008 at the age of 99. Works Paras-Sulit was considered at her productive peak during the period from 1927 to 1937. Her contemporary at the University of the Philippines, Jose Garcia Villa, was an admirer of her works, and included several of her short stories in his annual honor roll of short fiction. The novelist Juan Laya extolled her in 1951 as "one of the few remaining great pioneers of Philippine literature in English. Many of her stories remain unsurpassed in this day in sensitivity and depth of feeling." Short stories Several of Paras-Sulit's short stories, especially Harvest (1930), have been anthologized in collections of Filipino literature.

Frankincense (1927) Eyes of a Man (1928) Interlude (1929) Harvest (1930) In Fragrance (1934) Three Women (1937) Innkeeper's Daughter The Peril In The Lagoon Who was the Raja's Son?

Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra

Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra (born October 28, 1961) is a Filipino poet, fiction writer and blogging culture/social critic who came into prominence by championing selfpromoted, cliques-removed Filipino "indie literature" through his own html-format (previously pdf) online books for readers' free access. While proudly claiming his books are likely the first online books of poems and of stories by a Filipino author, he counter-lambasts critics of self-promotion and self-publishing as "one with their agents and friends in a confederacy of hypocrites led by their lying to band together for a hypocritical convention." De Veyra writes poetry alternately in the neosurrealist, ellipticist and anti-poetry mode and often displays a left-of-center politics. In 2009, he started uploading chapters of Fidel's March, a blogged bilingual novel which, while told in English by a film-director narrator, mimics the Filipino/Tagalog dialogues used in Philippine cinema. The novel critiques political art without an audience (or a wrong one) as well as proposes an answer to the presumption about novels' defeat to cinema. It is also de Veyra's class-cum-self critique concerning his and other writers' collective role within Filipino writing in English. His blog essay "Two fruits, one tree (or why there is no such thing as a national artist)" is another such critique on the arts languages of the classes. Although a self-confessed liberal, as a culture critic de Veyra has written blogs against state subsidies for the arts profession (including grants, artist residency funding, and the National Artist Award pension), demanding that such spending on state favorites be poured instead on the maintenance of neglected museums and libraries. Or it is precisely his liberalism that makes him link state art patronage to monarchic or statist governments. As a social critic, meanwhile, he has expressed support for the campaign against dams, espousing a "decentralization of the population"; various adaptations to heightened rainfall densities by climate change and global warming; and micro-sources of drinking water, irrigation and electricity. The poet and novelist Alfred Yuson called him a "renegade poet" who is nonetheless "another young fellow I've admired." His social criticism made the journalist/social critic/environmental activist Sylvia Mayuga tag him as "a provocateur---all true poets are that in my personal canon," and presented a couple of his blog essays for "guest column" appearances in her Philippine Star Online column. Writing primarily in the English language of the literature-reading elite of the Philippines, de Veyra also has works in Filipino, Tagalog, and his home province's own parochial Waray. De Veyra was born in the Philippine city of Tacloban, on the island and province of Leyte, as one of seven children to Vicente-Ignacio Lozano de Veyra, a civil and sanitary engineer for the health department (and son of the local Waray literature pioneer Vicente-Ignacio "Vatchoo" Luanco de Veyra[9] , a nephew of the national figure Jaime C. de Veyra), and Jesusa Soria, a state university professor. He grew up in the Catholic-religious town of Palo (near Tacloban), where after his grade-level education in a public school he was sent by his parents to the town's Sacred Heart Seminary, a campus he would however leave in two years for a Tacloban public high school after his father's spat with the rector.

Works

Alternative Prosaicnesses (two volumes in one, 1999) [online poetry book]

Paramaterial Dialectics Perpetual Regime Vexed (1999) [online book of short stories] Alternative Prosaicnesses II (Gifts/Parties/Titles/Unrests) (two volumes in one, 1999) [online poetry book] o Pop o Pop II War Photos (1999) [online poetry book] (this links to the book's December 2009 edition, being the final edition; another unauthorized edition still on the Internet was ripped by Reocities early in 2009 from the book's now-defunct original Geocities location) Decayed: Travel Poems (2000) [online poetry book] In The Level of Gods (200102) [online poetry book] How People Respond To Them, Yet Know Them Not (2004) [online poetry book] Mga Siday han ka-Waray/Being Waray: Poems (in progress, 2004- ) [online Winaray poetry book] Mga Tula ni Tandang Soria (in progress, 2006- ) [online Tagalog language poetry "chapbook", with more poems planned for inclusion to make a book-length collection] Bananacue Republic: Love In The Time of Racisms (The Online Essays) (200405, for reedit/polishing) [social criticism] Heto Na ... Ating Jackal Virgin (2005, released as an mp3 rock music album for free downloading on Soundclick.com in December 2009) [song lyrics for and co-music with the band Groupies' Panciteria] Social / -Isms, Vol. 1: Blogged Essays (2009) [social criticism] Perennial Measure (2009) [online poetry book in the blogged poetry project mode, finished October 2009] Fidel's March: A Screenplay of a Novel (2009- ) [online blogged novel in progress]
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Uldarico A. Alviola
Uldarico A. Alviola (1883 1966), well-known Cebuano Visayan novelist, was considered the dean of Cebuano writers. Also a distinguished lexicographer, he was the editor of Ang Suga, and several other Spanish language publications. In 1962 he received the LUDABI award for his contributions to Cebuano culture. He was also once a Deputy Governor of Cebu, one of the provinces of the Philippines. His pseudonyms included Artagnan, Sikatuna, and M. Anabell.

Books

Felicitas, 1912 Ang Gugma sa Lalaki Ang Gugma sa Babaye Gumaran sa Kinabuhi

Stevan Javellana
Stevan Javellana (1918-1977) was a Filipino novelist and short-story writer in the English language. He is also known as Esteban Javellana. Biography Javellana was born in 1918 in [Iloilo]]. He fought as a guerrilla during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. After World War II, he graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1948. He stayed in the United States afterwards but he died in the Visayas in 1977 at the age of 59. Writing career Javellana was the author of a best-selling war novel in the United States (U.S.) and Manila, Without Seeing the Dawn, published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston in 1947. His short stories were published in the Manila Times Magazine in the 1950s, among which are Two Tickets to Manila, The Sin of Father Anselmo, Sleeping Tablets, The Fifth Man, The Tree of Peace and Transition. Without Seeing the Dawn, also known as The Lost Ones, is his only novel.

Salvador P. Lpez
Salvador Ponce Lopez(May 27, 1911October 18, 1993), born in Currimao, Ilocos Norte, is an Ilokano writer, journalist, educator, diplomat, and statesman. He studied at the University of the Philippines and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1931 and a Master of Arts degree, also in philosophy, in 1933. During his UP days, he became a drama critic for the Philippine Collegian. From 1933 to 1936, he taught literature and journalism at the University of Manila. He also became a daily columnist and magazine editor of the Philippine Herald until World War 2. In 1940, Lopez' essay "Literature and Society" won in the Commonwealth Literary Awards. This essay posited that art must have substance and that poet Jose Garcia Villa's adherence to "art for art's sake" is decadent. The essay provoked debates, the discussion centered on proletarian literature, i.e., engaged or committed literature versus the art for arts sake literary orientation. He was appointed by President Diosdado Macapagal as Secretary of Foreign affairs and was ambassador to the United Nations for six years before reassigned to France for seven years. Lopez was the president of the University of the Philippines from 1969 to 1975. And he established a system of democratic consultation in which decisions such as promotions and appointments were made through greater participation by the faculty and administrative personnel; he also reorganized U.P. into the U.P. System. It was during his presidency that U.P. students were politically radicalized, launching mass protests against the Marcos regime, from the so-called "First Quarter Storm" in 1970 to the "Diliman commune" in 1971. During the Diliman Commune, Lopez called the students, faculty, and employees to defend UP and its autonomy from militarization, since the military wanted to occupy the campus, searching for alleged leftists as well as activists opposing them. Many militants, out of his defense of UP's autonomy and democracy, considered him as a progressive and a militant member of the UP academe.

Shirley Siaton
Shirley Siaton, officially credited in bylines as Shirley O. Siaton, is a journalist and writer of fiction and poetry based in the Philippines. She is best known for the Center series that ran in MOD Filipina magazine, stories that chronicled the lives of members of a fictional Filipino pop-rock band. Awards and Credits In 1996, she was the champion of the Regional Secondary Schools Press Conference English Editorial contest and the silver medallist of the same category at the National level. She is also a recipient of the National Philippine Information Agency IWAG Award for Excellence in Journalism and the much-coveted Esteban Javellana Award for Creative Writing, both given in 1997. Most of her fiction has been published in Philippine magazines such as MOD Filipina and Glitter. Her poetry was showcased in several issues of The Philippine Star. She has also worked as a columnist for Files Magazine, the weekly magazine of Panay News. Writings These are Shirley Siaton's works, grouped by publication and by no means comprehensive: Files Magazine 1. Telltale: The Oasis (23-29 January 1998) 2. Telltale: A Few Good Books (16-22 January 1998) 3. Telltale: Random Collisions (19-25 December 1997) Glitter Magazine 1. Hobo (16-31 January 1996) MOD Filipina Magazine 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Blue Sunset (5 and 12 March 1999)-Center Series Rivals (26 February 1999)-Center Series The One (4 September 1998)-Center Series Leaving the Mountain (21 August 1998) Fires (27 June 1997) Storms (24 January 1997)

The Philippine Star 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Other (13 November 1998) Foodcourt (18 September 1998) Fudge (24 October 1997) Who Cares (15 August 1997) Shoes (19 July 1997) Stone (3 May 1997) Graduation Day (12 April 1997) Passengers (30 November 1996)

She is also the author of two Filipino stageplays, Tatsulok (Triangle) and Gisi (Torn), both staged at the University of the Philippines Iloilo City campus in 1999.

Peter Solis Nery

Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet, fictionist, and author. Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature[1], the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Literary Grant, and the All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission for Culture and the Arts) awardee.[2] Diversifying into English and Filipino, he has authored 14 books and had written award-winning screenplays. He wrote and edited newspapers in Iloilo City before becoming a nurse in the United States. As an actor, Mr. Nery briefly appears in Tikoy Aguiluz's film on cybersex, www.XXX.com, of which he was also theassistant director. Presently, Peter works as an orthopedic nurse in Los Angeles, California, and continues to write in English and Hiligaynon. Early life and education He was born in January 6, 1969 and raised in the coastal town of Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines. He is the eldest among five siblings and his parents were both public school teachers. Peter attended primary school at the Dumangas Central Elementary School, completed his secondary education at the Dumangas Polytechnic College (now Iloilo State College of Fisheries), where he was consistently a first honor student from grade school to high school. He finished his degree in Biological Sciences from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, where he was named Most Outstanding Student (1989) and Most Outstanding Graduate of 1990. He also received the Presidents Award of Merit as Outstanding Student in his graduation year. While at school, Peter honed his talent for writing. Under his editorship, he led the U.P.V. college publication Pagbutlak [Sunrise] to become the regions best at the 1989 College Press Awards.[5] Peter also had attended the SVD Christ the King Mission Seminary in Quezon City where he took an Associate in Philosophy degree in 1992-1993. In 2004, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the West Negros College (now West Negros University) in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.[6] Works I Flew a Kite for Pepe (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1993.) ISBN 971-10-0542-5 First Few Notes of a Green Symphony (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1994.) ISBN 971-896706-0 The Essential Thoughts of a Purple Cat (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1996.) ISBN 971-896731-1 Rated R (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-8967-62-1 Shorts (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-10-1012-7 Moon River, Butterflies, and Me (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-101013-5 Shy Evocations of Childhood (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-8967-67-2 My Life as a Hermit (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-74-5 Fireflies for a Yuppie (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-75-3 A Loneliness Greater than Love (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-0-

0 Fantasia (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-1-9 Rain as Gentle as Tears (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-2-7 The Prince of Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-3-5 The Passion of Jovita Fuentes (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 2009.) ISBN 971-101206-9

GUMIL Filipinas
GUMIL Filipinas (Gunglo dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano iti Filipinas) or Ilokano Writers Association of the Philippines, is one of the most active group of regional writers in the Philippines. It has hundreds of active writer-members in provincial and municipal chapters as well as in overseas chapters in the mainland U.S. and Hawaii and in Greece. The first Iloko writers' organizations was organized in 1923 when 37 writers organized the Gimong dagiti Umiiluko (Association of Iloko Writers) in San Fernando, La Union, spearheaded by Cornelio Valdez, a poet and founder of the Northern Luzon College in the capital town. Mena Pecson Crisologo was elected president. When Crisologo died, Ignacio Villamor became president in an election at the Instituto de Mujeres in Manila on October 8, 1927. Benito S. de Castro, in his feature article in Bannawag magazine on February 29, 1988, said the Gimong dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano (Ilokano Writers Association) was also organized in 1947 with Benjamin A. Gray elected as president. Its main purpose was to preserve Iloko, to encourage and improve how to write better Iloko, and to publish the members' best Iloko writings. In the 1960s, Kutibeng (Lyre), an association of Iloko writers in Manila and suburbs, was organized. Pacifico D. Espanto was elected president. But Kutibeng did not last long. Guillermo R Andaya, then secretary, accepted the literary editorship of Bannawag. Espanto, the president, was appointed to teach in U.P. Los Baos, Laguna. Benjamin L. Viernes, the vice-president, focused on radio broadcasting. Paul B. Zafaralla, a member of the Board of Directors, was also appointed as instructor in U.P. Los Baos where he eventually became chairman of the humanities department. The interest of the remaining board members, including Jose A. Bragado and Leonardo Q. Belen, waned. In October 1964, Gunglo dagiti Mannurat iti Iluko (Association of Iloko Writers) was organized in Ilocos Sur. Pelagio A. Alcantara, then a public school principal, was elected president. Its first project was a literary seminar-workshop in Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur. After a few years, Juan S.P. Hidalgo, Jr., a staff member of Bannawag, suggested a change in name to Gunglo dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano to enable Ilokano writers in Iloko, English, Tagalog, Spanish and other languages to become members. GUMIL La Union was itself organized in 1966, with Joven Costales as its first president. That same year, GUMIL Abra was also born, with Pacita C. Saludes as president, as was GUMIL Laoag, with Peter La. Julian elected president. In December 1966, GUMIL Manila was organized, with Dr. Hermogenes. F. Belen of La Union, then vice-president for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies of the Philippine College of Arts and Trades, as president. In 1967, GUMIL Pangasinan was organized, with Mauro F. Guico, a public school principal, as president. On October 19, 1968, GUMIL Filipinas (Ilokano Writers Association of the Philippines) was organized in Baguio City. Arturo M. Padua, then municipal mayor of Sison, Pangasinan, was

elected president. The officers took their oath of office before President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

GUMIL Filipinas or Gunglo dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano iti Filipinas, Inc., was incorporated and registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on January 8, 1977. Objectives GUMIL Filipinas' main objectives are:
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To provide a forum in which Ilokano writers can undertake common and cooperative efforts to improve their craft of writing literary, historical, research and other works; To enrich Ilokano literature and cultural heritage as phases of the national identity by encouraging the members to concentrate on writing extensively and intensively about the social, economic, cultural and other aspects of growth and development among the Ilokanos through literature, history, research, or the like; To publish books of poetry, short stories, essays, novels, historical accounts, research and critical studies, and other writings; and To assist each member in pursuing his/her writing career and in fulfilling his life as a member of Philippines society.

Edgardo M. Reyes
Edgardo M. Reyes is a Filipino male novelist. His literature first appeared in the Tagalog magazine, Liwayway. His novels include Laro sa Baga, and Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag. He is also the one of the authors of the critically-acclaimed anthology of Tagalog Short Stories, the "Mga Agos sa Disyerto". His works and Philippine cinema Apart from being a book author, Edgardo M. Reyes is also a screenwriter whose film credits include Sa Kagubatan ng Lungsod (The Jungle in the City) (1975), Hoy Mister Ako ang Misis Mo (Hey Mister I Am Your Wife) (1976) and Uod at Rosas (Of Worms and Roses) (1982). The plot descriptions of these films had been cited and reviewed by the New York Times newspaper. Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag Edgardo M. Reyes's Tagalog novel Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag had later been adapted into film by the well-known Philippine director, Lino Brocka and was given the title Maynila, Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila: In the Claws of Light), which had also been reviewed by the New York Times in 1975. It had been spotlighted once more at the Walter Read Theater of the Lincoln Center from July 31 through August 20, 1999. It was included in the said film festival to celebrate the 100th year of Philippine Independence organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in partnership with the Philippine Centennial Commission, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, IFFCOM, the Philippine Information Agency, the Consulate General of the Philippines in New York and the Philippine Centennial Coordinating Council - Northeast USA. The book version was republished in the Philippines by the De La Salle University Press in 1986 Writing credits (filmography)

Laro sa Baga (2000), film adaptation and screenplay Bangkang Papel sa Dagat ng Apoy (1984), story/novel Idol (1984), screenplay Uod at Rosas (Of Worms and Roses) (1982) P.S. I Love You (1981) Tanikala (1980), story and screenplay Maynila, 1970 (1979), screenwriter Atsay (1978), screenplay Boy Pana (Terror ng Maynila '63) (1978) Ligaw na Bulaklak (Wildflower) (1976), story/novel Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila or Manila in the Claws of Neon (Philippines) or The Nail of Brightness (U.S.A) (1975), novel Sa Kagubatan ng Lunsod (The Jungle in the City) (1975) Hayop sa Porma, Hanep sa Ganda (2005), associate director Bangkang Papel sa Dagat ng Apoy (1984), director Solidaridad: Faith, Hope and Heaven (1989), director

Ricky Lee
Ricky Lee is a Filipino scriptwriter. He has written more than a hundred film scripts since 1979, earning for him more than 50 trophies from award-giving bodies. A writer with modern and realistic tones, he has worked with the best Filipino directors (Lino Brocka, Ishmael Bernal, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Chito Rono, Joel Lamangan, Laurice Guillen, Gil Portes, Oliva Lamasan, Rory Quintos, and Mel Chionglo), and most of his films have been shown in Cannes, Toronto Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival and other foreign festivals. Lee is also a fictionist, a journalist, and a playwright. He won several awards in fiction (Philippines Free Press, Palanca, National Book Award, etc.). In 2000, he was one of the 100 Centennial Awardees of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and a Gawad-Balagtas Awardee from UMPIL. Life Lee grew up with his relatives in an obscure town in Daet, Camarines Norte. His mother died when he was 5 years old and only saw his father on few occasions. He studied primary and secondary school in the same town. It was said that Lee often sneak into moviehouses and bury himself in books at the school library, tearing away pages with striking images. An intelligent student, he consistently topped his class from grade school on to high school. His promising writing career took a first step when he won his first national literary award for a short story he wrote when he was still in high school. Driven by his passion to pursue dreams, he ran away from home and took a bus to Manila. He roamed the streets, taking on menial tasks as a waiter during the day and asking his townmates to accommodate him during the night until he collapsed one day in Avenida out of hunger. He was accepted at University of the Philippines Diliman as an AB English Major but never got his diploma from U.P. where, ironically enough, he now teaches. He lived as a fugitive during the Martial Law years and was later incarcerated. All these experiences would prove to be a wealthy source of inspiration from which to draw his stories and characters. Literary career His body of works has spanned over twenty years which include writing short stories, plays, essays, teleplays, and screenplays. A rare achievement for a writer, two of his short stories won first prizes at the Palanca Awards for Literature for two years in a row. Thereafter, he never joined any literary contest believing that writers should not compete with each other. His two stage plays Pitik-Bulag Sa Buwan ng Pebrero and DH (Domestic Helper) played to SRO crowds. DH, starring Nora Aunor, has toured the US and Europe in 1993. He has written more than seventy produced scripts, earning for him more than thirty trophies from all the award-giving bodies in the Philippine movie industry. He has never and will never write any literary work in English, a conviction he holds to this day, even if that would mean going hungry. Books Among the books he has published are: Si Tatang at mga Himala ng Ating Panahon (an anthology of some of his works), Pitik-Bulag Sa Buwan Ng Pebrero, Brutal/Salome (the first book of screenplays in the Philippines), Moral and Bukas May Pangarap. His screenplay for Salome has been translated into English and published by the University of Wisconsin Madison in the U.S. as part of its textbook in film studies.

Ricky Lee has likewise published a screenplay manual, Trip to Quiapo, which is a required text in most communications courses. In November 2008, Lee launched his first novel entitled "Para Kay B (o kung paano dinevastate ng pag-ibig ang 4 out of 5 sa atin)" at the U.P. Bahay ng Alumni.

Dean Francis Alfar

Dean Francis Alfar (born 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction. His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while his articles and fiction have been published both in his native Philippines and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the Exotic Gothic series. His literary awards include ten Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards) including the Grand Prize for Novel for Salamanca (Ateneo Press, 2006) as well as the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards for the graphic novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion, and the Philippines Free Press Literary Award. He was a fellow at the 1992 Dumaguete National Writers Workshop and 20th UP National Writers Workshop . He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic, editing the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, as well as a comic book creator and a blogger. Alfar is also an entrepreneur running several businesses. He lives in Manila with his wife, fictionist Nikki Alfar and their two daughters. Works Books Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, Kestrel, December 2005. (Anthology of short fiction) Salamanca, Ateneo de Manila University Press, April 2006. Grand Prize Winner for Novel, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2005. Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 2, Kestrel, December 2006. (Anthology of short fiction) Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 3, Kestrel, December 2007. (with Nikki Alfar, Anthology of short fiction) The Kite of Stars and Other Stories, Anvil Publishing, 2007. (Collection of short fiction) Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 4, Kestrel, February, 2009. (with Nikki Alfar, Anthology of short fiction) How Rosang Taba Won The Race, Lampara Publishing. (Children's book, forthcoming) Short Fiction Simon's Replica in Philippines Free Press, May 2010 Bruhita Exotic Gothic III, edited by Danel Olson, Ash-Tree Press. 2009 Ghosts of Wan Chai in Connecting Flights: Nineteen Filipinos Report From Elsewhere, edited by Ruel de Vera, December 2009 In the Dim Plane in Bewildering Stories, issue 366, January 2010 The Kite of Stars in The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, Apex 2009 Something Like That in Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia ManguerraBrainard, December 2009 How My Mother Flew in Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia ManguerraBrainard, December 2009 The Music Teacher in Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard, December 2009

Strange Weather in The Farthest Shore), edited by Joseph Nacino & Dean Francis Alfar, 2009; and in Philippine Speculative Fiction 5. edited by Nikki Alfar and Vincent Michael Simbulan (Kestrel, 2010) Messiah in Dark Blue Southern Seas 2009, edited by F. Jordan Carnice, April 2009 Fallow's Flight in A Time for Dragons, edited by Vincent Michael Simbulan, Anvil Fantasy, March 2009

Report HC-IK017785A-0097B-006 de Ocampo: Survey of Artifacts Found in the Derelict Vessel The Malaya in Philippines Free Press, November 2008. I, D.I." in Belonging: Stories of Relationships, edited by Erlinda Panlilio, Anvil, October 2008 Remembrance in Exotic Gothic II, edited by Danel Olson, Ash-Tree Press, September 2008 The Maiden and the Crocodile reprint in Bewildering Stories, September 2008. The Many Loves of Ramil Alonzo in Philippines Free Press, August 2008. Sunboy in Philippines Free Press, May 2008. In the Dim Plane in Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, April 2008. The Middle Prince in Tales of Fantasy and Enchantment, edited by Cristina PantojaHidalgo, February 2008 An Excerpt from 'Princes of the Sultanate' (Ghazali: 1902); Annotated by Omar Jamad Maududi, MLS, HOL, JMS in Story Philippines, February 2008 Chasing Aurora" in Sunday Inquirer Magazine of the Philippine Daily Inquirer), November 2007. Ever, After in Philippines Free Press, August 2007. Into the Morning in Bewildering Stories, July 2007. The Dragon in the Bell in Philippines Free Press, June 2007. Sabados con Fray Villalobos in A la Carte; Food and Fiction, edited by Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard and Marily Orosa (February 2007). The Middle Prince in Bewildering Stories, September 2006; Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, December 2006 How Rosang Taba Won A Race in Philippines Free Press, July 2006. Six From Downtown in Philippines Free Press, June 2006; Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol.2 (Kestrel, December 2006) The Maiden and the Crocodile in Story Philippines, March 2006. Hollow Girl: A Romance in Latitude: Writing from the Philippines and Scotland, edited by Angelo Rodriguez Lacuesta and Toni Davidson (Anvil Publishing, March 2006; Futuristic Fiction, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2004). Four-letter Words in Manual, January 2006. Terminos in Rabid Transit : Menagerie, (Velocity Press, U.S.A., May 2005). L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) in Strange Horizons, January 2003; in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Seventeenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant (St. Martin's Press, U.S.A., August 2004); and in Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, edited by Dean Francis Alfar (Kestrel, December 2005). Gumamela in ab ovo 2 (Kestrel Studios, January 2003). Ser Clessidrana Acerca Tiempo (Mr. Clessidrana Thinks About Time) in Hinirang.com, 2002. (push) in Stuff Magazine, May 2001. Spark: The Sad and Strange Tale of Sister Maria Dolores, the Nun who Exploded in National Midweek, 1992. The Last Mermaid Story in National Midweek, 1992. The Secret Measure in National Midweek, 1992. Magan & Balo in Mr. & Ms. Magazine, 1991. Comic Books Siglo: Passion, edited by Dean Francis Alfar & Vincent Michael Simbulan (Kestrel/Nautilus Books, 2005). The Craft Century in Project: Hero, edited by Elbert Or & Andrew Drilon (Questventures, 2005). Invitation in K.I.A., edited by Marco Dimaano (Alamat Comics, 2005).

Quad in Hey Comics!, edited by Ramon de Veyra, 2004. Siglo: Freedom, edited by Dean Francis Alfar & Vincent Michael Simbulan (Kestrel/Nautilus Books, 2003). Ab Ovo 1, 2, edited by Dean Francis Alfar (Kestrel, 2002). The Lost 1, 2. Kestrel, 2001.

Bob Ong
Bob Ong, or Roberto Ong, is the pseudonym of a Filipino contemporary author known for using conversational Filipino to create humorous and reflective depictions of life as a Filipino. . One reviewer notes (translated from the vernacular): " Filipinos really patronize Bob Ong's works because, while most of his books may have an element of comedy in them, this is presented in a manner that replicates Filipino culture and traditions. This is likely the reason why his first book - and those that followed it, can be considered true Pinoy classics." The six books he has published thus far have surpassed a quarter of a million copies. The website and the pseudonym The pseudonym Bob Ong came about when the author was working as a web developer and a teacher, and he put up the Bobong Pinoy website in his spare time. The name of the site roughly translates as "Dumb Filipino," used fondly as a diminutive term. "Although impressed," Bob Ong notes, "my boss would've fired me had he known I was the one behind it." When someone contacted him after mistaking him as an actual person named Bob Ong, his famous pseudonym was born. The site received a People's Choice Philippine Web Award for Weird/Humor in 1998, but was taken down after former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada was ousted after the Second People Power Revolution. Pseudonym Confusion There has been occasional confusion between Bob Ong and Filipino-Chinese author Charlson Ong. However, according to Bob Ong's account in Stainless Longganisa, he is not actually Filipino-Chinese. Neither is he actually named "Ong." The family name "Ong" just evolved out of play of words that was the BobOng Pinoy website. It has also been suggested that the poet, Paolo Manalo, is Bob Ong, but he has denied this. The books of Bob Ong are often humorous can produce feelings of nostalgia for the reader.[7] Another theory also states that Carlos Palanca Memorial Awardee for Literature, Prof. Eros S. Atalia, graduate of Philippine Normal University and is now a teacher in the University of Santo Tomas, is Bob Ong. He also produced two books with Visual Print Enterprise, entitled "Peksman, Mamatay ka Man Nagsisinungaling Ako" and "Lapit na me, Ligo na u". Atalia's writing style falls under a similar type Bob Ong uses. (But if you examine the context, particularly on the author's political view and religious view, Atalia is way too different from Bob Ong) Published works ABNKKBSNPLAko?!(Aba, Nakakabasa na pala Ako!) (2001) Bakit Baligtad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino? (2002) Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas (2003) Alamat ng Gubat (2003)

Stainless Longganisa (2005) Macarthur (2007) Kapitan Sino (2009) Ika-walo (2010)

Linda Ty Casper
Linda Ty Casper is a Filipino writer who has published over fifteen books, including the historical novel DreamEden and the political novels Awaiting Trespass, Wings of Stone, A Small Party in a Garden, and Fortress in the Plaza. She has also published three collections of short stories which present a cross-section of Filipino society. In 1992, Tides and Near Occasions of Love won the Philippine PEN short story prize; another at the UNESCO International Writers' Day, London; and the SEAWrite Award in Bangkok "Triptych for a Ruined Altar" was in the Roll of Honor of The Best American Short Stories, 1977.[citation needed] Her novel Awaiting Trespass which is about the politically sensitive theme of torture by the Marcos regime was published by Readers International of London. This work gained her major critical attention in the United States for the first time, and in Britain the nobel was chosen as one of the five best works of fiction by a woman writer published in 1985-86 Biography Born as Belinda Ty in Malabon, Philippines in 1931. She spent the World War II years with her grandmother while her father worked in the Philippine National Railways, and her mother in the Bureau of Public Schools. Her grandmother told her innumerable of stories about the Filipinos struggle for independence, that later became the topics of her novels. Linda Ty Casper graduated valedictorian in the University of the Philippines, and later earned her Master's degree in Harvard University for International Law. In 1956, she married Leonard Casper, a professor emeritus of Boston College who is also a critic of Philippine Literature. They have two daughters and reside in Massachusetts. Published works

The Transparent Sun (short stories), Peso Books, 1963 The Peninsulares (historical novel), Bookmark 1964 The Secret Runner (short stories), Florentino/National Book, 1974 The Three-Cornered Sun (historical novel), New Day, 1974 Dread Empire (novella), Hong Kong, Heinemann, 1980 Hazards of Distance (novella), New Day, 1981 Fortress in the Plaza (novella), New Day, 1985 Awaiting Trespass (novella), London, Readers International, 1985 Wings of Stone (novella), London, Readers International, 1986digfgyiegryfrg Ten Thousand Seeds (historical novel), Ateneo, 1987 A Small Party in a Garden (novella), New Day, 1988 Common Continent (short stories), Ateneo, 1991 Kulasyon: Uninterrupted Vigils (collected first chapters), Giraffe, 1995 DreamEden (historical novel) Ateneo 1996 and University of Washington Press 1997

Hope Sabanpan-Yu
Hope Sabanpan-Yu is a short story writer/poet from Cebu City, Philippines. She earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and her Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary (Canada). She is completing a research project on prostitute figures in Indonesian women's writings and also a study on the querida in selected Cebuano fiction by women writers. Hope currently serves as the Central Visayas coordinator of the National Committee on Literary Arts (NCLA). She is also the secretary of the Women Studies Association of the Philippines (WSAP). A member of the Women in Literary Arts (WILA) and Bathalan-ong Halad sa Dagang (Bathalad), Hope writes both in Cebuano and in English. Her poetry has been published in several collections: Paglaum (2000), Ang Tingog ni Maria (2001), Beads (2002) and Mga Dadonon sa Biyahe (2004). She edited two anthologies of interviews with Cebuano writers, Kapulongan: Conversations with Cebuano Writers (2008), and Kulokabildo: Dialogues with Cebuano Writers (2009) published by the USC Cebuano Studies Center. She co-edited Small wonder: a collection of essays (2010) with Paolo Macachor, published by USC Press. Hope has also translated several authors of Cebuano Fiction. Mila's Mother (2008), published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, is a translation of Austregelina EspinaMoore's serialized novel entitled Ang Inahan ni Mila. Men at Sea and other stories (2009), also published by the NCCA, is a translation of the short story collection of Gremer Chan Reyes. Crack Shot and other Stories (2010), a translation of the short story collection of Ernesto D. Lariosa was published by the USC Press together with Where the fire tree grows (2010), a novel by Austregelina Espina-Moore. In 2007, Hope's doctoral dissertation was given the Best Dissertation award from the University of the Philippines. Subsequently it was published by the University of the Philippines Press as Women's Common Destiny: Maternal Representations in the Serialized Cebuano Fiction of Hilda Montaire and Austregelina Espina-Moore (2009). It was awarded the prestigious Lourdes Lontok-Cruz Award for research excellence last April 30, 2010.

Karen Kunawicz
Karen Kunawicz is a Philippine poet, writer, pop culture journalist, comic book editor, and former television show host and producer. She is sometimes popularly referred to as the Philippines' "Queen of the Goths." [1] Valeros and Gruenberg's "Filipino Writers in English" (New Day,1987) says of her writing: "Some have described her writing as dark and depressingly beautiful, with common themes focusing on heartache and missed soulmates."

As A Television Personality
On a national level, Kunawicz is probably best known as one of the three female hosts for a talk show called XYZ Young Women's TV, which aired over PTV-4 and later on the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC). This also led to the publication in 2000 of the book The XYZ Guide for Young Women in which she was a contributor. In 2000 she was also the producer of Quark Henares' Palanca Award winning independent film "A Date With Jao Mapa."

[edit] As A Writer and Editor

Prior to her television exposure, she was known for her columns in the Manila Times and Mirror Weekly. Her In The Dark column in the Manila Times, a daily broadsheet, came out every Saturday until the paper closed down in 1999. Her On The Verge column for Mirror Weekly, a magazine at which she was also Youth Editor, ran for six years until she left the publication in 2000. Her work on On The Verge led to the 1999 release of a book of the same title. Aside from these columns, she continues to contribute articles to various newspapers and magazines on a freelance basis. Among the publications these works have come out in include the Manila Chronicle, Daily Globe, Philippine Graphic, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Music News Asia. In addition, Kunawicz currently serves as editor-in-chief of Mango Jam, a serial Comic book made by independent Comic book publisher Mango Comics. Mango Jam is marketed as the Philippines' first all-girls comics, created by girls. [3] "The entire crew is all female, all Pinay," says Kunawicz. "...And even if we're competing against big-name international titles, we're proud of every issue that flies off the shelf!" [4] "The publisher saw an opportunity in the market for young women comic book readers and they wanted to get this message of girl power across, and there was no better way to do it than start off with women writers and women artists." [5]

[edit] Books

Kunawicz also came out with a number of books, either as Author, Co-Author or Contributor. This is a partial list. Author

Kunawicz, Karen (1999). On the Verge. Alamat.

Co-Author

Jimenez-David, Rina; Karen Kunawicz (1999). Body Talk 2. Anvil Publishing. ISBN 9718822409.

Contributor

Kunawicz, Karen (2000). The XYZ Guide for Young Women. Alamat.

Azucena Grajo Uranza

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Azucena Grajo Uranza (born on 23 January 1929) is a Filipino novelist, short story writer, and playwright in the English language.[1]

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1 Biography 2 Works o 2.1 Novels o 2.2 Other works 3 Recognition 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Biography
Uranza was born in Sorsogon, Sorsogon. She graduated from the Far Eastern University of the Philippines where she acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 1952 and then an MA in English in 1969. Apart from being a writer, Uranza was also an associate professor of Literature and the Humanities at Far Eastern University. As a playwright, she wrote for the theater, radio, and television. Her plays were produced by Channel 4 (television), DZRH (radio), and the Far Eastern University.[1]

[edit] Works
[edit] Novels

She has written the novels, Bamboo in the Wind (1990), A Passing Season (2002), Feast of the Innocents (2003) and the Women of Tammuz (2004). It spans a hundred years of Philippine history and, in terms of chronology, A Passing Season is the first (set in 1898, during the Philippine American war), followed by The Women of Tammuz (which tells of the second world war), after which Bamboo in the Wind came (which retells the turbulent period and the events on the eve before the actual declaration of Martial Law[2][3] by the former Philippine president and despot, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos. The fourth part of the saga is the Feast of Innocents, set in the Philippines' post-People Power period. Uranza's novels keep the Filipinos' history alive.[1]

[edit] Other works

Uranza was also the author of the 2005 anthology of short stories entitled Voices in a Minor Key, a volume of 22 short stories, and a book of plays entitled Masks and Mirrors. Many of her short stories appeared in the pages of Filipino magazines such as Philippines Free Press, Weekly Women's Magazine, Focus Magazine, and Ginoo Magazine. She also wrote a coffee table book entitled Arbol, An Etnographic Record of a Family.[1]

[edit] Recognition
Uranza was the recipient of the Philippine Centennial Awards for Literature, the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Focus Philippines Literary Awards, the Pama-as, the Gintong Bai Award (National Commission for Culture and the Arts), and the Green and Gold Artist Award (Far Eastern University).[1]

Lope K. Santos
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Lope K. Santos

Born Died Other names Occupation

September 25, 1879 May 1, 1963 (aged 83) Lope C. Santos writer, lawyer, politician

Lope K. Santos (September 25, 1879 May 1, 1963) was a Tagalog language writer from the Philippines.[1] Aside from being a writer, he was also a lawyer, politician, critic, labor leader and considered as "Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar".[2][3] He was a freemason.

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1 Biography o 1.1 In the field of literature o 1.2 Political career o 1.3 Personal life 2 Works 3 References

4 See also

[edit] Biography
[edit] In the field of literature

Santos was born in Pasig, Rizal, Philippines (now a part of Metro Manila) - as Lope C. Santos to Ladislao Santos and Victoria Canseco, both natives of Rizal province. He used Kanseko instead of Canseco for his middle name to show his nationalism[citation needed][clarification needed]. During his time, the letter C had begun falling out of use in favor of the letter K in the Tagalog alphabet. Santos studied at Escuela Normal Superior de Maestros (Normal Superior School of Teachers) and Escuela de Derecho (Law School); and got his Bachelor of Arts degree in Colegio Filipino (Filipino College). He became an expert in dupluhan, a popular poetical debate competition in his time, which can be compared to balagtasan, a similar contest but with shorter discourse. In 1900, he served as editor on publications written in Tagalog, such as Muling Pagsilang (Rebirth) and Sampaguita, which he founded. Through Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon, he was appointed as director of the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa (National Language Institute).[4]
[edit] Political career

Santos became governor of Rizal province from 1910 to 1913, and governor of Nueva Vizcaya from 1918 to 1920. During the 5th Philippine Legislature, he also served as Senator in the Twelfth District under the Nacionalista Party.[4]
[edit] Personal life

In February 10, 1963, Santos married Simeona Salazar and they had 5 children. He had an operation for his liver disease but later died. Santos' last request on his deathbed was to make Tagalog a National Language of the Philippines.[4]

[edit] Works
The works of Santos include the following:[4]

Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa (National Language Grammar) Banaag at Sikat, a novel

Jonas Diego is a Filipino comic book writer and artist. He has works published, mainly with independent studios and publishing houses, in the U.S. and the UK in both traditional (print) and non-traditional channels (web-based and mobile content). His recent works include a 12-page contribution for the comic book anthology Siglo: Passion written by Luis Katigbak and colored by Joel Chua for Kestrel Publishing and Quest Ventures, which won the National Book Award in the Philippines last 2006 [1] and Tales from the Enchanted Kingdom published by Enchanted Kingdom and Mango Comics. Jonas also produces comic books for various companies and advertising agencies such as Architel, a Dallas, Texas based IT company and ACE Saatchi and Saatchi (Philippines), as well as develops and produces content for mobile phones. Aside from his pursuits in the field of comic books, graphic design, and mobile content, Jonas also manages the Philippine operations of Interactive Art Services (IAS), Inc. as its studio director. He is also a problogger handling writing chores for The Comic Blurb, a comics-themed blog that is a member of the first Filipino blogging network, Bayanihan Blogs.

un Lana
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Rodolfo R. Lana, Jr. Born October 10, 1972 (age 37) Makati City, Philippines

Jun Lana (born October 10, 1972), born as Rodolfo R. Lana, Jr., is a Filipino playwright and two-time FAMAS award-winning screenwriter. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards for Literature, he became the youngest member of the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2006.[1]

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1 Writing career 2 Film and television work 3 Credits o 3.1 Films 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Writing career

Lana was born in Makati. At age 19, he received an "Honorable Mention" citation in the 1991 Palanca Awards in the category Dulang May Isang Yugto (One-Act Play in Filipino), for his play Eksodo.[2] The following year, Lana won Third Prize in the same category for Churchill.[3] In the next eight years, Lana would win nine more Palanca Awards for his Filipino language screenplays and teleplays, including First Prizes for the screenplays Karinyo-Brutal (1995) and Mga Bangka sa Tag-araw (1996); and for the teleplays Sa Daigdig ng mga Taksil (1995), and together with Peter Ong Lim, for Pula (1997).[4][5][6] In 2006, Lana's teleplay Milagrosa won him his fifth First Prize Palanca Award and his 11th overall. With his fifth First Prize, Lana was inducted into the Palanca Hall of Fame.

[edit] Film and television work

Since 1998, Lana has written screenplays for such directors as Marilou Diaz-Abaya Mel Chionglo and Maryo J. de los Reyes. His screenplay for Diaz-Abaya's Sa Pusod ng Dagat (1998) won Lana the Best Screenplay award from the Brussels European Film Festival|Brussels International Film Festival in 1998.[7] He has won two FAMAS Best Screenplay awards in 1998 for Jose Rizal (shared with Ricky Lee and Peter Ong Lim] and in 1999 for Soltera (shared with Jerry Lopez Sineneng). His screenplay for Jose Rizal also won him awards from the Metro Manila Film Festival and the Star Awards for Movies. In 2005, Lana's Palanca-award winning play Mga Estranghero at ang Gabi (1994) was adapted for film by Rody Vera. Renamed Pusang Gala and directed by Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil, the film was nominated for several FAMAS awards, including a Best Story nomination for Lana. Lana made his film directorial debut with Gigil (2006), starring Katrina Halili. The following year, he wrote and directed Roxanne. Since 2006, Lana has been employed by GMA Television Network, where he functions as a creative consultant for the drama department, and as head writer of Magpakailanman and other shows. Lana also directs for television, sometimes in collaboration with actor Cesar Montano. For GMA Network, he directed his Palanca Award-winning teleplay "Milagroso", which was aired as a television special and became a finalist at the 2006 Asian TV Awards. Lana has also directed television episodes for Love2Love, Wag Kukurap, and Fantastikids.

[edit] Credits
[edit] Films

Sa Pusod ng Dagat (1998; writer) Sagad sa Init (1998; writer) Jose Rizal (1998; writer) Saranggola (1999; writer) Soltera (1999; writer) Sa Paraiso ni Efren (1999; writer) Muro Ami (1999; writer) Mapagbigay (2000; writer) Red Diaries(2001; writer) Bagong Buwan (2001; writer) I Think I'm in Love (2002; writer) Bedtime Stories (2002; writer) Two Timer (2002; writer) Pusong Gala (2005; story) Gigil (2006; director) Roxxxanne (2008; writer, director)

Cirilo Bautista
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Cirilo F. Bautista (1941-) is a multi-awarded Filipino poet, fictionist, critic and writer of nonfiction. He received his basic education from Legarda Elementary School (1st Honorable Mention, 1954) and Mapa High School (Valedictorian, 1959). He received his degrees in AB Literature from the University of Santo Tomas (magna cum laude, 1963), MA Literature from St. Louis University, Baguio City (magna cum laude, 1968), and Doctor of Arts in Language and Literature from De La Salle University-Manila (1990). He received a fellowship to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (19681969) and was awarded an honorary degreethe only Filipino to have been so honored there. Bautista taught creative writing and literature at St. Louis University (19631968) and the University of Santo Tomas (19691970) before moving to De La Salle University-Manila in 1970. He is also a co-founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC) and a member of the Manila Critics Circle, Philippine Center of International PEN and the Philippine Writers Academy. Bautista has also received Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards (for poetry, fiction and essay in English and Filipino) as well as Philippines Free Press Awards for Fiction, National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle, Gawad Balagtas from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas, the Pablo Roman Prize for the Novel, and the highest accolades from the City of Manila, Quezon City and Iligan City. Bautista was hailed in 1993 as Makata ng Taon by the Komisyon ng mga Wika ng Pilipinas for winning the poetry contest sponsored by the government. The last part of his epic trilogy The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus, entitled Sunlight on Broken Stones, won the Centennial Prize for the epic in 1998. He was an exchange professor in Waseda University and Ohio University. He became an Honorary Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa in 1969, and was the first recipient of a British Council fellowship as a creative writer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1987. Bautista works include Boneyard Breaking, Sugat ng Salita, The Archipelago, Telex Moon, Summer Suns, Charts, The Cave and Other Poems, Kirot ng Kataga, and Bullets and Roses: The Poetry of Amado V. Hernandez. His novel Galaw ng Asoge was published by the University of Santo Tomas Press in 2004. His latest book, Believe and Betray: New and Collected Poems, appeared in 2006, published by De La Salle University Press.

His poems have appeared in major literary journals, papers, and magazines in the Philippines and in anthologies published in the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, China, Romania, Hong Kong, Germany and Malaysia. These include: excerpts from Sunlight on Broken Stones, published in World Literature Today, USA, Spring 2000; What Rizal Told Me (poem), published in Manoa, University of Hawaii, 1997; She of the Quick Hands: My Daughter and The Seagull (poems), published in English Teachers Portfolio of Multicultural Activities, edited by John Cowen (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Aside from his teaching, creative and research activities as a Professor Emeritus of Literature at the College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University-Manila, Bautista is also a columnist and literary editor of the Philippine Panorama, the Sunday Supplement of the Manila Bulletin. He is also a member of the Board of Advisers and Associate, Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University-Manila and Senior Associate, The Center for Creative Writing and Studies of the University of Santo Tomas.

Works
[edit] Poetry

Summer Suns (with Albert Casuga, 1963) The Cave and Other Poems (1968) The Archipelago (1970) Charts(1973) Telex Moon (1981) Sugat ng Salita (1985) Kirot Ng Kataga (1995), Sunlight On Broken Stones (2000) Tinik Sa Dila: Isang Katipunan Ng Mga Tula (2003) The Trilogy Of Saint Lazarus (2001) Believe and Betray: New and Collected Poems (2006)

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Stories (1990) Galaw ng Asoge (2004)

[edit] Literary Theory and Cultural Studies

Breaking Signs (1990) Words And Battlefields: A Theoria On The Poem (1998) The Estrella D. Alfon Anthology Vol. I - Short Stories (2000) Bullets And Roses: The Poetry Of Amado V. Hernandez / A Bilingual Edition (translated Into English And With A Critical Introduction) (2002)

ohn Iremil Teodoro

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John Iremil E. Teodoro (born November 14, 1973 in San Jose de Buenavista, Antique, Philippines) is a Filipino writer, university professor and freelance journalist. He is also a multiawarded poet and playwright, one of the country's leading pioneers in gay literature and the most published author in the Karay-a dialect to date. Born to a middle class family in the province of Antique, Teodoro gained early recognition as a highly-prized and well-published writer during his college years. Among his first distinctions were the Literature Grant of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Gawad Ka Amado in 1993 for his early attempts in Filipino poetry. His first full-length play in Filipino Ang Unang Ulan ng Mayo (The First Rain of May) won 2nd Place at the 1997 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of San Agustin in Iloilo City. He also holds a master's degree in Creative Writing from the De La Salle University-Manila where he graduated with high distinction. He later worked as a journalist for the Bandillo ng Palawan-Edisiong Filipino in Puerto Princesa City, a controversial publication devoted to the advocacy of environmental concerns in the province of Palawan. In 2001, he returned to his alma mater to work as an assistant professor in literature at the University of San Agustin where he would later become the founding coordinator of the Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Institute, Managing Director of the USA Publishing House and moderator of the student publications. He also initiated the establishment of the San Agustin Writers Workshop with the intention of propagating the welfare of creative writing among young writers in Western Visayas. His full-length play Belasyon, which dramatizes the country's migratory diaspora was staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2003 as part of the USA Centennial Commission activities. In 2004, he was recognized as one of the Outstanding Augustinians of the Century for his lifetime achievement in culture and the arts. He writes in four tongues, namely in English, Filipino, Hiligaynon and Karay-a. He is a member of the Alon Collective and the Tabig/Hubon Manunulat Antique. He is a five-time awardee of the prestigious Palanca Awards and has published five books of poetry. Many of his literary works have been published some of the

country's leading journals, magazines and newspapers. His poetry book Kung ang Tula ay Pwedeng Pambili ng Lalake (If Poems Could Buy Men) has been shortlisted at the 2007 Manila Critics Circle National Book Award. On February 20, 2008, Unang Ulan ng Mayo (The First Rain of May) was premiered by the De La Salle University - Harlequin Theatre Guild at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute, Cultural Center of the Philippines. On October 9, 10 and 11, 2008, the play was restaged by the guild at the College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts, Black Box.

Ian Casocot
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Ian Rosales Casocot (born 1975) is a creative writer and journalist from Negros Oriental, Philippines. He is known for his prizewinning short stories Old Movies, The Hero of the Snore Tango, Rosario and the Stories, and A Strange Map of Time. He also maintains A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature, a website on Filipino writings and literary criticism. Casocot studied at the International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) and Silliman University (Dumaguete City, Philippines) where he graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication. He was a writer for fiction at National WritersWorkshops in Dumaguete, Cebu and Iligan. Casocot received Don Carlos Palanca, N.V.M. Gonzalez, and the PBBY-Salanga prizes for his fiction. He is also the first winner of the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose in the Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards in 2006. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts selected him as one of the authors for The 2003 UBOD New Writers Series. FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures , an anthology he had edited, received a National Book Award nomination from the Manila Critics Circle. In the middle of 2010, Casocot was one of only two Filipinos selected to participate in the 43rd International Writing Program (IWP) of the University of Iowa from August to November of the said year.[1] His short stories and essays have been published in The Sunday Times, Sands and Coral, Dapitan, Tomas, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Philippine Daily Inquirer, SunStar Bacolod, and Dumaguete MetroPost. Casocot teaches English and Literature at Silliman University in Dumaguete City. He is also a correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He also writes two weekly columns, The Spy in the Sandwich for Visayan Daily Star's StarLife Magazine and Tempest in a Coffee Mug for Dumaguete MetroPost].