CANONICAL AUTHORS and PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ARTISTS IN LITERATURE

 Edith L. Tiempo

(April 22, 1919- August 21 2011)

 Declared a National Artists for Literature in 1999

 She is poet, fictionist, teacher, and literary critic

 Her works characterizes remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftmanship

and insight

 Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations significant experiences

 “descriptive but unburdened scrupulous detailing”

 Founder of and director of Siliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City

which has produced some the country’s best writers

 FAMOUS WORKS:

The Novel A Blade Of Fern (1978)

The Native Coast (1979)

The Alien Corn (1992)

The Charmer’s Box and Other Poems (1993)

The Poetry Collections, The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1996)
 Bienvenido Lumbera

(2006)

 Declared as National Artist Literature last 2006

 Poet, librettist, and scholar

 Pioneered the creative fusion of arts and popular imagination and introduced Tagalog

literature the BAGAY POETRY

 Bagay poetry: a landmark aesthetic tendency that has helped to change vernacular

poetic tradition

 FAMOUS WORKS:

Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa (poems in eng & filo) (1993)

Balaybalay , Mga Tulang Lunot at at Manibalang (2002)

Sa Sariling Bayan, Apat na may Dulang May Musika (2004)

Agunyas sa Hacienda Luisita, Pakikiramay (2004)

 N.V.M Gonzales

(Sept 8 1915- Nov 28 1999)

 Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez

 declared as National Artist for Literature last 1997.

 A fictionist, essayist, poet, and teacher – who articulated the Filipino spirit in rural,

urban landscapes

 U. P’s International-Writer-In-Residence and a member of the Board of Advisers of

the U.P. Creative Writing Center

 Received his highest recognition as U.P. Conferred on him the Doctor of Humane
 Letters, honoris causa.

 His awards attest to his triumph in appropriating English language to express, reflect

and shape Philippine culture and sensibility

 Awards received:

First Commonwealth Literary Contest (1940)

Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1960)

Gawad CCP Para sa Sining (1990)

 FAMOUS WORKS:

The Winds of April

Seven Hills Away

Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories

The Bamboo Dancers

Look Strangers On this Island Now

Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-One Stories

Work on the Mountain

The Bread of Salt and Other Stories

 The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968 – 1994, A Grammar of Dreams and

Other Stories
 Virgilio S. Almario

(2003)

 Rio Alma

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 2003. He is a poet, literary historian

and critic – who has revived and reinvented traditional Filipino poetic forms.

 His works became his poetic voice as it soared from lyrical to satirical to epic, from

dramatic to incantatory.

 Executive Director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (1998 -

2001)

 He is also the Chairman Emeritus of Unyon ng mga Manunulat Pilipinas (UMPIL)

 He is also the founder of literary workshops namely:

The Galian sa Arte at Tula (GAT)

The Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA)

 Published 12 books of poetry and 10 books of criticisms and anthologies

 FAMOUS WORKS:

Makinasyon and Peregrinasyon

Mga Retrato at Rekwerdo

Doktrinang Anakpawis

Muli, Sa Kandungan ng Lupa

Barlaan at Josaphat Mutyang Dilim

Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina

Balagtisismo versus Modernismo

Walong Dekada ng Makabagong Tula Pilipino

(2014)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 2014. He is a poet, fictionist, and

essayist – who was acknowledged as the foremost writer of his generation

 His works influences people and thus he established a reputation for fine and

profound artistry.

 He became an instrument to form the Bienveido Santos Creative Writing Center

 Founder of Philippine Literary Arts Council (1981), the Iligan National Writers

Workshop (1993), and the Baguio Writers Group

 FAMOUS WORKS:

Summer Suns (1963)

Words and Battlefields (1998)

The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus (2001)

Galaw ng Asoge (2003)

(May 14, 1917- April 19 2004)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 1976

 His pen name is Quijano de Manila and had coined the term “Joaquinesque”

 Joaquinesque it refers to his reinventions of English based on Filipinisms.

 Write-ups: plays, novels, poems, short stories and essays including reportage and

journalism

 FAMOUS WORKS:

The Woman Who Had Two Navels

A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young

The Ballad of the Five Battles

Rizal in Saga

Almanac for Manileños

Caves and Shadows

(2001)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 2001

 A publisher, lecturer on cultural issues, and the founder of the Philippine Chapter of

the International Organization PEN.

 His write-ups centers on the social struggles encountered by people of a nation

 Awards Received:

CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts (1999)

Outstanding Fulbrighters Award for Literature (1998)

Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication

Arts (1980)

 FAMOUS WORKS:

My Brother

Tree

My Executioner

Mass

Po-on
 Amado V. Hernandez

(Sept 13, 1903 – May24, 1970)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 1973

 He is a poet, playwright, and novelist who practiced committed art

 He is the first Filipino to write a socio-political novel that exposes the ills of the

society as evident in the agrarian problems of the 50’s

 He views writers as the conscience of society and affirms the greatness of the human

spirit in the face of inequity and oppression

 FAMOUS WORKS:

Ibong Mandaragit

Bayang Malaya

Isang Dipang Langit

Luha ng Buwaya

Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas

 Lazaro Francisco

(Feb 22, 1898 –June 17, 1980)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 2009

 He developed the social realist tradition in Philippine fiction. His novels exposed the

evils of the tenancy system, exploitation of farmers by landlords and foreign

domination.

 He is known as masterful handling of the Tagalog Language and supple prose style

 Established the Kapatiran ng mga Alagad ng Wikang Pilipino (KAWIKA) in 1958

(1997)

 FAMOUS WORKS:

Ama

Bayang Nagpatiwakal

Maganda Pa Ang Daigidgig

Daluyong

 Alejandro Roces

(July 13, 1924 – May 23, 2011)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 2003

 He is a short story writer and essayist, and considered as the country’s best writer of

comic short stories

 He popularizes country’s local fiestas, change country’s Independence Day from July

4 to June 12

 He also made it possible to change the language used in currencies, stamps, and

passport from English to Filipino

 He recovered Jose Rizal’s manuscripts when they were stolen from the National

Archives

 FAMOUS WORKS:

My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken

(Jan 14, 1899 – Dec15, 1985)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 1982

 An educator, soldier, university president, journalist, and diplomat

 The first Asian President of United Nations General Assembly, and the first Asian to

won America’s Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

 FAMOUS WORKS:

 I Walked with Heroes

 I Saw the Fall of the Philippines

 Mother America

 I see the Philippines Rise

 The United

 Forty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN

The Philippine Presidents

 Jose Garcia Villa

(Aug 5, 1908 – Feb 7, 1997)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 1973

 One of the finest contemporary poets and known as the comma poet.

 Pen name is Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, and Lion).

 Introduced the reversed consonance rime scheme, the comma poems that made use

of punctuation marks in a poetic way

 FAMOUS WORKS:
 Footnote to Youth

Many Voices

Poems by Doveglion

Poems 55

Poems in the Praise of Love: The Best Love Poems of Jose Garcia Villa

Selected Stories

The Portable Villa

Mir-i-nisa

 Francisco Arcellana

(Sept 6, 1916 – Aug 1, 2002)

 Declared as National Artist for Literature last 1990

 A poet, essayist, critic, journalist, and teacher

 Progenitor of modern Filipino short story in English.

 Pioneered the development of the short story as lyrical prose-poetic form

 FAMOUS WORKS:

Frankie

Lina

The Mats

A Clown Remembers

 The Man Who Would Be Poe

Death in a Factory

 Divided by Two
 The Other Woman

 This Poem is for Mathilda