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 She is a poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic. She is one of the finest Filipino writers in Englishwhose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight.

• Jose Garcia Villa

• Edith Tiempo

• Amado Hernandez

• Francisco Arcellana

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.

• Carlos Romulo

• Jose Garcia Villa

• Nick Joaquin

• Rolando Tinio

Another definition given is its connectedness with works of literature that are highly respected.

• Conenical

• Conanical

• Coninical

• Canonical

This is where the language is mostly associated with Tagalog.

• Mindanao

• Manila

• Luzon

• Visayas

Literature here produced is widely written in Waray, Cebuano, and English.

• Visayas

• Mindanao

• Luzon

• Central Visayas

Being the only island of the Philippines where majority is non-Christian, ignorance among Christians, discrimination, and distortion are mostly felt by Muslim people.

• Luzon

• Mindanao

• Visayas

• Bohol

poet, playwright, and novelist, is among the Filipino writers who

practiced “committed art”

• Nick Joaquin

• Jose Rizal

• Amado Hernandez

• Jose Garcia Villa

is a poet, librettist, and scholar. As a poet, he introduced to Tagalogliterature what is now known as Bagay poetry, a landmark aesthetic tendency that has helped to changethe vernacular poetic tradition.

• Bienvenido Lumbera

• Edith Tiempo

• Levi Celerio

• Jose Garcia Villa

is considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of raceor language.

• Nick Joaquin

• Rolando Tinio

• Edith Tiempo

• Jose Garcia Villa

writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher, is one of the mostimportant progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English.

• Jose Garcia Villa

• Francisco Arellana

• Nick Joaquin

• Edith Tiempo