National Artist for Literature

He also

known as Rio Alma, is a poet, literary historian and critic, who has revived

and reinvented traditional Filipino poetic forms, even as he championed

modernist poetics.

• Francisco Arcellana

• Virgilio S. Alamrio

• Cirilio Bautista

• NVM Gonzales

He is a fictionist,

essayist, poet, and teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in rural, urban

landscapes. Among the many recognitions, he won the First Commonwealth Literary

Contest in 1940, received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1960 and the

Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in 1990.

• Francisco Arcellana

• Virgilio S. Alamrio

• Cirilio Bautista

• NVM Gonzales

He is a writer, poet,

essayist, critic, journalist, and teacher, is one of the most important

progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English. He pioneered the

development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form.

• Francisco Arcellana

• Virgilio S. Alamrio

• Cirilio Bautista

• NVM Gonzales

He is a poet,

fictionist and essayist with exceptional achievements and significant

contributions to the development of the country’s literary arts. He is acknowledged

by peers and critics, and the nation at large as the foremost writer of his

generation.

• Francisco Arcellana

• Virgilio S. Alamrio

• Cirilio Bautista

• NVM Gonzales

He is

regarded by many as the most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing

so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino. Nick Joaquin has

also enriched the English language with critics coining “Joaquinesque” to

describe his baroque Spanish-flavored English or his reinventions of English

based on Filipinisms.

• Nick Joaquin

• Amado H. Hernandez

• F. Sionil Jose

• Bienvenido Lumbera

He is

a poet, librettist, and scholar.As a poet, he introduced to Tagalog literature

what is now known as Bagay poetry, a landmark aesthetic tendency that has

helped to change the vernacular poetic tradition. He is the author of the

following works: Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa (poems in Filipino and English),

1993; Balaybay, Mga Tulang Lunot at Manibalang, 2002; Sa Sariling Bayan, Apat

na Dulang May Musika, 2004; “Agunyas sa Hacienda Luisita,” Pakikiramay, 2004.

• Nick Joaquin

• Amado H. Hernandez

• F. Sionil Jose

• Bienvenido Lumbera

He is a poet,

playwright, and novelist, is among the Filipino writers who practiced “committed

art.” In his view, the function of the writer is to act as the conscience of

society and to affirm the greatness of the human spirit in the face of inequity

and oppression.

• Nick Joaquin

• Amado H. Hernandez

• F. Sionil Jose

• Bienvenido Lumbera

He is writing since the

late 60s, when taken collectively can best be described as epic. Its sheer

volume puts him on the forefront of Philippine writing in English. But

ultimately, it is the consistent espousal of the aspirations of the

Filipino–for national sovereignty and social justice–that guarantees the value

of his oeuvre.

• Nick Joaquin

• Amado H. Hernandez

• F. Sionil Jose

• Bienvenido Lumbera

As founding director of

the Cebuano Studies Center—an important research institution which placed Cebu

in the research and documentation map—he pioneered Cebuano and national

identity formation. Who is being described?

• Carlos P. Romulo

• Resil J. Mojares

• Alejandro Roses

• Edith L. Tiempo

He is a short story writer

and essayist and considered as the country’s best writer of comic short

stories. He is known for his widely anthologized “My Brother’s Peculiar

Chicken.”

• Carlos P. Romulo

• Resil J. Mojares

• Alejandro Roses

• Edith L. Tiempo