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A Filipino writer in English

A poet, fictionist, TEACHER, AND A LITERARY CRITIC

The only female National Artist in Literature

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

As a fictionist, she was known for her MORAL PROFOUNDNESS

One of the first CONTEMPORARY POETS regardless of race or language

Known for introducing the REVERSED CONSONANCE rhyme scheme in poetry

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)

Gained both LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL recognition for his works

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

Jose Garcia Villa Pen Name:

Born in Hagonoy Bulacan

Amado a.k.a:

Poet, playwright, NOVELIST

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

Labor leader

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

—: imprisoned for alleged subversive activities

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

Nick Joaquin (1976)

Born in Paco, Manila

Poet, fictionist, essayist, BIOGRAPHER, playwright

Nick Joaquin Pen Name:

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

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

—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)

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

Wrote 18 books

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

Writer, poet, essayist, critic, JOURNALIST, TEACHER

A Filipino teacher and contemporary writer

One of the prominent FILIPINO FICTIONISTS in English

Poignant shorts stories

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

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

Widely known as F. Sionil Jose

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

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

1965: Opened Solidaridad Publishing House

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

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

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

Virgilio S. Almario (2003) Pen Name:

Poetic, literary historian critic Children books

12 books of poetry

Known for his poetry and literary criticism

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

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

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

an organization of poets who write in Filipino in 1985

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

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

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

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

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

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

Born in Lipa, Batangas on April 11, 1932

His parents passed away before he turned 5

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

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

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

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