User:Cmealmazan/OPL (Original Philippine Literature)

Original Philippine Literature or OPL (a take-off from the popularly coined term OPM for Original Pilipino Music) is a new term to describe Philippine Literature to make it more acceptable, accessible and cooler to the young.

OPL attempts to widen the traditional view of Philippine Literature as beyond simply purely pre-colonial and colonial works. Philippine Literature as commonly conceived is associated with historical or classical works. It is greatly associated with writers such as Jose Rizal, Francisco Balagtas, or Amado V. Hernandez, and with works such as Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Biag ni Lam-ang, Florante at Laura, and Ibong Adarna.

The use of the term OPL attempts to create and bring to life not just a wider definition and understanding of Philippine literature, but also the creation of a burgeoning community of both readers and writers, celebrating the various forms and genres of literature— from fiction to non-fiction, from prose to poetry, from written to spoken.