Nick Joaquin Pen Name:

Poet, fictionist, essayist, BIOGRAPHER, playwright

Bienvenido S. Lumbera (2006) Was called — when he was young boy

Poignant shorts stories

He writes in English and Filipino National Artist for Literature in 2006

Among the MOST WIDELY READ FILIPINO WRITERS in English whose novels and short stories depict a wide scope of social underpinnings and struggles of the Filipino Masses

Writer, poet, essayist, critic, JOURNALIST, TEACHER

The only female National Artist in Literature

12 books of poetry

1998 to 2001: served as the executive director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)

His parents passed away before he turned 5

His life and most of his works are influenced by Dr. Jose P. Rizal

A Filipino teacher and contemporary writer

Known for introducing the REVERSED CONSONANCE rhyme scheme in poetry

Poet, fictionist, essayist, critic, and writer of nonfiction, taught CREATIVE WRITING AND LITERATURE

Together with poets Rogelio Mangahas and Lamberto E. Antonio, they pioneered the second modernist movement in FILIPINO POETRY

1966: Founded Solidarity, a magazine that produces content mainly focused on “current affairs, ideas, and the arts”

Known for using INTRICATE AND WITTY REPRESENTATIONS to portray significant human experiences

Born in Hagonoy Bulacan

As a fictionist, she was known for her MORAL PROFOUNDNESS

Jose Villa is also known for his —, where he employed a comma after every word

Virgilio S. Almario (2003) Pen Name:

—: imprisoned for alleged subversive activities

Bienvenido Took a degree in — at the University of Santo Tomas in 1950 and graduated cum laude in 1954

Nick Joaquin started as a proofreader for the —, he rose to contributing editor and essayist

Nick Joaquin (1976)

Committed artists “writer’s function is to act as the — and to affirm the greatness of the — in the face of inequity and oppression”

Poetic, literary historian critic Children books

1965: Opened Solidaridad Publishing House

PRIDE OF FICTION is that it is able to render truth, that is able to present reality Known for innovating and exploring new literary forms and experimenting with different techniques in short story writing

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

an organization of poets who write in Filipino in 1985

A Filipino writer in English

—writes that Nick Joaquin'w significance in Philippine Literature involves his exploration of the — past under Spain and his probing intro — of social changes (Doña Jeronima, Candido’s Apocalypse and The Order of Melchizedek)

After 5 years of imprisonment, he returned to journalistic practice, a columnist for — (1962-1967), editor, —, until his death, 1970

Gained both LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL recognition for his works

One of the first CONTEMPORARY POETS regardless of race or language

Began his writing career as a journalist and later editor or various PRE WORLD WAR II TAGALOG NEWSPAPERS like Watawat, Pagkakaisa, Makabayan, Sampaguita, and Mabuhay Extra

In his method, the last sounded CONSONANT of the LAST SYLLABLE, or the last principal consonant of a word are — for the corresponding rhyme (e.g light - tile, tall-tale)

One of the prominent FILIPINO FICTIONISTS in English

Born in Paco, Manila

Known for his poetry and literary criticism

First asian who served as the President of the UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

A poet, fictionist, TEACHER, AND A LITERARY CRITIC

Pioneer the development of the SHORT STORY as lyrical prose-poetic form

Poet, playwright, NOVELIST

Jose Garcia Villa Pen Name:

Founded the Galian sa Arte at Tula (GAT) with other poets Teo Antonio and Mike Bigornia in 1970

The about poem is written by her

A Filipino literary writer Playwright, ESSAYIST, and short story writer

Labor leader

Wrote 18 books

Born in Lipa, Batangas on April 11, 1932

Amado a.k.a:

1986 to 1992: served as chairman of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) which is considered to be the biggest umbrella organization of writers

Regarded by many as the MOST DISTINGUISHED FILIPINO WRITER in English writing

Country’s MOST INFLUENTIAL LIVING WRITER who employs realism through his narrative techniques and style

Born in Intramuros, Manila and grew up in Camiling, Tarlac

He founded the Philippine PEN, an organization of poets, playwrights, and novelists

Widely known as F. Sionil Jose

He defines modernist poetry as sparing, suggestive, restrained in emotion; its vocabulary and subject are immersed in the now

2013: the chairman of the Komisyon ng Wikang FIlipino (KWF)

COLUMNIST at the PHIL STAR the Manila Times, and the Manila Chronicle