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AUTHOR
FAMOUS LOCAL AUTHORS

EDITH [Link]

 She is a poet, fictionist, teacher and literary

critic.
 She was born on April 22,1919 in Bayombong
, Nueva Vizcaya
 • Her poems are intricate verbal
transfigurations of significant experiences as
revealed in two of her much anthologized
piece S "THE LITTLE MARMOSET" an "BONSAI
 She is an influential tradition in Philippine literature in English. Together
with her late husband, Edilberto [Link], she founded and directed
the siliman National writers workshop in dumaguete city, which was
produced some of the country's best writers.
PUBLISHED WORKS (NOVEL)
 A blade of Ferm (1978)
 The Native Coast (1979)
 The Alien Corn (1992)
PUBLISHED WORKS (POETRY COLLECTIONS)
 The tracks of Babylon and other poems (1966)
 The Charners Box and other Poems (1993)
 Abide, Joshua, and other stories (1964)

BIENVENIDO LUMBERA

 He is a poet,librettist and scholar was born

on April 11, 1932 in Lipa, Batangas,
Philippine Islands he introduced to tagalog
literature what is now know as Bagay
poetry,a landmark aesthetic tendency that
has helped to change the vernacular poetic
tradition.

He is the author of the following works:

 Likhan 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
 Lumbera is known for his nationalist writing and for his leading role in
the Filipinization movement in Philippine literature in the 1960s, which
resulted in his being one of the many writers and academics jailed
during Ferdinand Marcos' Martial Law regime. [2] [3] He received the
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative
Communications in 1993, and was proclaimed a National Artist of the
Philippines for literature in 2006.

NESTOR VICENTE MADALI GONZALES

 Known as N.V.M. Gonzales

 He was born on 8 September 1915 in
Romblon, Philippines. [1] González, Oriental
Mindoro.
 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.
 The awards attest to his triumph in
appropriating the English language to express, reflect and shape
Philippine culture and Philippine sensibility. He became U.P's
International-Writer-In- Residence and a member of the Board of
Advisers of the U.P. Creative Writing Center. In 1987, U.P. conferred on
him the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, its highest academic
recognition.

VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO

 also known as Rio Alma

 a poet, literary historian and critic, who has
revived and reinvented traditional Filipino
poetic forms, even as he championed
modernist poetics.
 born on March 9, 1944 (age 80) in San
Miguel, Bulacan,
  He is a National Artist of the Philippines. He formerly served as the
chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), the government
agency mandated to promote and standardize the use of the Filipino
language. On January 5, 2017, Almario was also elected as the
chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).[
 In 34 years, he has published 12 books of poetry, which include the
seminal Makinasyon and Peregrinasyon, and the landmark trilogy
Doktrinang Anakpawis, Mga Retrato at Rekwerdo and Muli, Sa
Kandungan ng [Link] these works, his poetic voice soared from the
lyrical to the satirical to the epic, from the dramatic to the incantatory,
in his often severe examination of the self, and the society.
 another accomplishment he put a face to the Filipino writer in the
country, one strong face determinedly wielding a pen into untruths,
hypocrisy, injustice, among others.

CIRILO F. BAUTISTA

 is a poet, fictionist and essayist with

exceptional achievements and
significant contributions to the
development of the country's literary
arts.
 born on July 9, 1941 in Manila
 He is acknowledged by peers and
critics, and the nation at large as the
foremost writer of his generation.
 Throughout his career that spans more
than four decades, he has established a
reputation for fine and profound artistry;
his books, lectures, poetry readings and creative writing workshops
continue to influence his peers and generations of young writers.
 As a teacher of literature, Bautista has realized that the classroom is an
important training ground for Filipino writers. In De La Salle University,
he was instrumental in the formation of the Bienvenido Santos Creative
Writing Center. He was also the moving spirit behind the founding of
the Philippine Literary Arts Council in 1981, the Iligan National Writers
Workshop in 1993, and the Baguio Writers Group.
 Bautista works include Boneyard Breaking, Sugat ng Salita, The
Archipelago, Telex Moon, Summer Suns, Charts, The Cave and Other
Poems, Kirot ng Kataga, and Bullets and Roses: The Poetry of Amado V.
Hernandez. His novel Galaw ng Asoge was published by the University
 of Santo Tomas Press in 2004. His latest book, Believe and Betray: New
and Collected Poems, appeared in 2006, published by De La Salle
University Press.

NICK JOAQUIN

 Born on May 4, 1917 wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila.
 He is regarded by many as the most distinguished Filipino writer in
English writing so variedly and so we I about so many aspects of the
Filipino.
 He 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.
 Bienvenido Lumbera writes that Nick
Joaquin's significance in Philippine
literature involves his exploration of
the Philippine colonial past under
Spain and his probing into the
psychology of socia changes as seen by the young, as exemplified in
stories such as Dona Jeronima, Candido's Apocalypse and The Order of
Melchizedek. Nick Joaquin has written plays, novels, poems, short
stories and essays including reportage and journalism.
 As a journalist, Nick Joaquin uses the nome de guerre Quijano de
Manila but whether he is writing literature or journalism, fellow
National Artist Francisco Arcellana opines that "it is always of the
highest skill and quality."
 Among his voluminous works are 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
Manilefios, Cave and Shadows. Nick Joaquin died on April 29, 2004.

[Link] JOSE

 He was born on December 3, 1924

was a Filipino writer who was one of
the most widely read in the English
language.
 A National Artist of the Philippines
for Literature, which was bestowed
 upon him in 2001, José's novels and short stories depict the social
underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society.
 His works-written in English-have been translated into 28 languages,
including Korean, Indonesian, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and
Dutch.
 He was often considered the leading Filipino candidate for the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
 F. Sionil Jose is also a publisher, lecturer on cultural issues, and the
founder of the Philippine chapter of the international organization PEN.
He was bestowed the CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts in 1999; the
Outstanding Fulbrighters Award for Literature in 1988; and the Ramon
Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative
Communication Arts in 1980.

AMADO V. HERNANDEZ

 poet, playwright, and novelist, is

among the Filipino writers who
practiced "committed art". He was
born on september 13, 1903 in Tondo,
Manila, 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.
 Hernandez's contribution to the
development of Tagalog prose is
considerable he stripped Tagalog of its
ornate character and wrote in prose closer to the colloquial than the
"officia style permitted. His novel Mga Ibong Mandaragit, first written
by Hernandez while in prison, is the first Filipino socio- political novel
that exposes the ills of the society as evident in the agrarian problems
of the 50s.

Hernandez's other works include:

 Bayang Malaya,
 Isang Dipang Langit,
 Luha ng Buwaya,
 Tudla at Tudling
  Katipunan ng mga Nalathalang Tula 1921-1970,
 Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas
 Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol at Iba Pang Akda ni Amado V.
Hernandez.

LAZARO A. FRANCISCO

 He was born on February 22, 1898 in

Orani, Bataan,
 He prize-winning writer developed the
social realist tradition in Philippine
fiction. His eleven novels, now
acknowledged classics of Philippine
literature, embodies the author's
commitment nationalism.

 Historical marker installed in 1990 at

the Lazaro Francisco Integrated School
in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija
 In 1958, he established the Kapatiran ng mga Alagad ng Wikang
Pilipino, roughly translated as "Brotherhood of the Disciples of the
Filipino Language", a society that campaigned the use of Tagalog as
the national language of the Philippines.
 In 2009, former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo awarded the
National Artist of the Philippines for Literature to Francisco,
posthumously, for his significant contribution to Philippine literature.

ALEJANDRO ROCES

 He was born on July 13, 1924 in Manila,

Philippine Islands
 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."
  He was instrumental in popularizing several local fiestas, notably,
Moriones and Ati-atihan. He personally led the campaign to change the
country's Independence Day from July 4 to June 12, and caused the
change of language from English to Filipino in the country's stamps,
currency and passports, and recovered Jose Rizal's manuscripts when
they were stolen from the National Archives.

CARLOS P. RAMULO

 He was born on January 14, 1899 He was a Filipino diplomat,

statesman, soldier, journalist and author.
 He was a reporter at the age of 16, a newspaper editor by 20, and a
publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the
Philippines, a general in the US Army and the Philippine Army,
university president, and president of
the United Nations General Assembly
 Romulo was very much into writing: he
was a reporter at 16, a newspaper
editor by the age of 20, and a publisher
at 32.
 He was the only Asian to win America's
coveted Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for
a series of articles predicting the
outbreak of World War II. Romulo, in all,
wrote and published 18 books, a range
of literary works which included The United (novel), I Walked with
Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother
America, I See the Philippines Rise (war-time memoirs
 His other books include his memoirs of his many years' affiliations with
United Nations (UN), Forty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN, and
The Philippine Presidents, his oral history of his experiences sewing all
the Philippine presidents.

JOSE GARCIA VILLA

 He was born on August 5, 1908 in

Manila
 He is considered as one of the finest
contemporary poets regardless of race
or language.
 Villa, who lived in Singalong, Manila,
introduced the reversed consonance
 rime scheme, including the comma poems that made full use of the
punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way.
 The first of his poems "Have Come, Am Here" received critical
recognition when it appeared in New York in 1942 that, soon enough,
honors and fellowships were heaped on him:

ROLANDO S. TINIO

 He was born on March 5, 193 in Tondo,

Manila, Philippine
 He is a playwright, thespian, poet,
teacher, critic and translator, marked his
career with prolific artistic productions.
 Tinio's chief distinction is as a stage
director whose original insights into the
scripts he handled. brought forth
productions notable for their visual
impact and intellectual cogency
 It was to Teatro Pilipino which he left a considerable amount of work
reviving traditional Filipino drama by re-staging old theater forms like
the sarswela and opening a treasure- house of contemporary Western
drama. It was the excellence and beauty of his practice that claimed
for theater a place among the arts in the Philippines in the 1960s.

FRANCISCO ARCELLANA

 He was born on Born September 6,

1916, in Manila
 He is 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. For Arcellana, the pride of
 fiction is "that it is able to render truth, that is able to present
reality".
 Some of his short stories are Frankie, The Man Who Would Be Poe,
Death in a Factory, Lina, A Clown Remembers, Divided by Two, The
Mats, and his poems being The Other Woman, This Being the Third
Poem This Poem is for Mathilda, To Touch You and I Touched Her, and
among others.

LEVI CELERIO

 He was born on April 30, 191 in

Tondo, Manila, is a prolific lyricist
and composer for decades. He
effortlessly translated/wrote anew
the lyrics to traditional melodies:
"O Maliwanag Na Buwan" (lloko),
"Ako ay May Singsing" (Pampango)
, "Alibangbang" (Visaya) among
others.
 He received his scholarship at the
Academy of Music in Manila that made it possible for him to join the
Manila Symphony Orchestra, becoming its youngest member. He made
it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the only person able to
make music using just a leaf.
 A great number of his songs have been written for the local movies,
which earned for him the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film
Academy of the Philippines. Levi Celerio, more importantly, has
enriched the Philippine music for no less than two generations with a
treasury of more than 4,000 songs in an idiom that has proven to
appeal to all social classes.

CARLOS QUIRINO

 He was born on Born January 14,

1910, in Manila biographer, has
 the distinction of having written one of the earliest biographies of Jose
Rizal titled The Great Malayan.
 Quirino's books and articles span the whole gamut of Philippine history
and culture-from Bonifacio's trial to Aguinaldo's biography, from
Philippine cartography to culinary arts, from cash crops to tycoons and
presidents lives, among so many subjects. In 1997, Pres. Fidel Ramos
created historical literature as a new category in the National Artist
Awards and Quirino was its first recipient.
 He made a record earlier on when he became the very first Filipino
correspondent for the United Press Institute.

FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS

[Link] SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) English

poet and playwright. Famous plays include Macbeth,
Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice and Hamlet.
Shakespeare is widely considered the seminal writer of
the English language.

[Link] SWIFT (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish writer

born in Dublin. Swift was a prominent satirist, essayist
and author. Notable works include Gulliver's Travels
(1726), A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub.

3. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) British author

best-known for his compilation of the English
dictionary. Although not the first attempt at a
dictionary, it was widely considered to be the most
comprehensive setting the standard for later
dictionaries.

[Link] WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749 -

1832) German poet, playwright, and author. Notable
works of Goethe include Faust, Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship and Elective Affinities.
[Link] AUSTEN (1775 - 1817) English author who
wrote romantic fiction combined with social realism.
Her novels include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride
and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816).

[Link] DE BALZAC (1799 - 1850) French

novelist and short story writer. Balzac was an
influential realist writer who created characters of
moral ambiguity often based on his own real-life
examples. His greatest work was the collection of short
stories La Comédie Humaine.

[Link] DUMAS (1802-1870) French

author of historical dramas, including The
Count of Monte Cristo (1844), and The Three
Musketeers (1844). Also prolific author of
magazine articles, pamphlets and travel books.

[Link] HUGO (1802-1885) French author

and poet. Hugo's novels include Les Misérables,
(1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).

[Link] CHARLES DICKENS (1812-

1870) - English writer and social critic. His
best-known works include novels such as Oliver
Twist, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.

[Link] BRONTE (1816 - 1855)

English novelist and poet, from Haworth. Her
best-known novel is 'Jane Eyre' (1847).

[Link] DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) -

American poet, writer and leading member of
the Transcendentalist movement. Thoreau's "Walden" (1854) was a unique
account of living close to nature.

[Link] BRONTE (1818-1848) English

novelist. Emily Bronte is best known for her
novel Wuthering Heights (1847), and her
poetry.

[Link] ELIOT (1819 - 1880) Pen name

of Mary Ann Evans. Wrote novels, The Mill on
the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861),
Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda
(1876)

[Link] TOLSTOY (1828-1910) Russian

novelist and moral [Link] works
include the epic novels War and Peace (1869)
and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy also
became an influential philosopher with his
brand of Christian pacificism.

[Link] DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881)

Russian novelist, journalist and philosopher.
Notable works include Notes from
Underground, Crime and Punishment and The
Idiot.

16. LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) Oxford

mathematician and author. Famous for Alice in
Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and
poems like The Snark.

[Link] T MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)

American writer and humorist, considered the
'father of American literature. Famous works include The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

[Link] HARDY (1840-1928) English

novelist and poet. Hardy was a Victorian realist
who was influenced by Romanticism. He wrote
about problems of Victorian society in
particular, declining rural life. Notable works
include: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874),
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895).

[Link] WILDE (1854- 1900) - Irish writer

and poet. Wilde wrote humorous, satirical
plays, such as 'The Importance of Being
Earnest' and 'The Picture of Dorian Grey.

[Link] GRAHAM (1859-1932) Author

of the Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of
children's literature.

[Link] BERNARD SHAW (1856 1950)

Irish playwright and wit. Famous works include:
Pygmalion (1912), Man and Superman (1903)
and Back to Methuselah (1921)

[Link] ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)

British author of historical novels and plays.
Most famous for his short stories about the
detective - Sherlock Holmes, such as The Hound
of the Baskervilles (1902) and Sign of Four
(1890).
[Link] POTTER (1866-1943) English conservationist and author of
imaginative children's books, such as the Tales of Peter Rabbit (1902).

[Link] PROUST (1871-1922) French

author. Best known for epic novel I À la
recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost
Time) published in seven parts between 1913
and 1927.

[Link] SOMERSET MAUGHAM 1874-

1965) British novelist and writer. One of the
most popular authors of 1930s. Notable works
included The Moon and Sixpence (1916), The
Razor's Edge (1944), and Of Human Bondage
(1915).

[Link] (1881-1975) English

comic writer. Best known for his humorous and
satirical stories about the English upper classes,
such as Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings
Castle.

[Link] WOOLF (1882-1941) English

modernist writer, a member of the Bloomsbury
group. Famous novels include Mrs Dalloway
(1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando
(1928).

[Link] JOYCE (1882-1941) Irish writer from

Dublin. Joyce was one of most influential
modernist avant-garde writers of the Twentieth
Century. His novel Ulysses (1922), was ground-
breaking for its stream of consciousness style.
Other works include Dubliners (1914) and
Finnegans Wake (1939).
[Link] LAWRENCE (1885-1930) English poet,
novelist and writer. Best known works include
Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love
and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) which was
banned for many years.

[Link] CHRISTIE (1890 - 1976) British

fictional crime writer. Many of her books focused
on series featuring her detectives 'Poirot' and
Mrs Marple.

31.J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) - Professor of

Anglo-Saxon and English at Oxford University.
Tolkien wrote the best-selling mythical trilogy
The Lord of the Rings. Other works include The
Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and a translation of
Beowulf.

32 .VERA BRITTAIN (1893 - 1970) British

writer best known for her autobiography
Testament of Youth (1933) sharing her traumatic
experiences of the First World War.

33.F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896 1940)

American author. An iconic writer of the 'jazz
age'. Notable works include The Great Gatsby
(1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934)
cautionary tales about the 'Jazzdecade' and the
American Dream based on pleasure and
materialism.
[Link] BLYTON (1897-1968) British
children's writer, known for her series of
children's books The Famous Five and The Secret
Seven. Blyton wrote an estimated 800 books
over 40 years.

35.C.S. LEWIS (1898-1963) Irish / English

author and professor at Oxford University. Lewis
is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, a
children's fantasy series. Also well known as a
Christian apologist.

[Link] HEMINGWAY (1899 1961)

Groundbreaking modernist American writer.
Famous works included For Whom The Bell Tolls
(1940) and A Farewell to Arms (1929).

[Link] NABOKOV (18991977) Russian

author of Lolit and Pale Fire (1962)

[Link] CARTLAND (1901 - 2000)

One of most prolific and best selling authors of
the romantic fiction genre. Some suggest she
has sold over 2 billion copies worldwide.

[Link] STEINBECK (1902-1968) American

writer who captured the social change
experienced in the US around the time of the
Great Depression. Famous works include Of
Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath
(1939) and East of Eden (1952).
[Link] ORWELL (1903 1950) English
author. Famous works include Animal Farm, and
1984. Both stark warnings about the dangers of
totalitarian states, Orwell was also a
democratic socialist who fought in the Spanish
Civil War, documenting his experiences in
"Homage to Catalonia" (1938).

[Link] BECKETT (1906-1989) Irish

avant garde, modernist writer. Beckett wrote
minimalist and thought provoking plays, such
as 'Waiting for Godot' (1953) and 'Endgame'
(1957). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

[Link] ALBERT CAMUS (1913 1960) French

author, journalist, and philosopher. Associated
with existentialism and absurdism. Famous
works included The Myth of Sisyphus, The
Stranger and The Plague.

[Link] DAHL (1916-1990) English author,

best known for his children's books, such as Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, James and The
Giant Peach and The BFG.

[Link] SOLZHENITSYN (1918-

2008) Russian author, historian and political
critic. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1970 for his work in
exposing the nature of Soviet totalitarianism.
e.g, The Gulag Archipelago (1965-67).
45. J.D. SALINGER (1919 2010) American author. Most influential novel
The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Wrote many short stories for New Yorker
magazine, such as "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

[Link] HELLER (1923-1999) American

novelist, who wrote satirical and black comedy.
His most famous work is 'Catch 22' (1961) - a
satire on the futility of war.

[Link] GARCIA MARQUEZ (1927 2014)

Colombian author. Wrote: One Hundred Years of
Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch
(1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).

[Link] FRANK (1929-1945) Dutch-Jewish

diarist. Known for her diary 'Anne Frank'
Published posthumously by her father recalling
her life hiding from Gestapo in occupied Holland.

[Link] RUSHDIE (1947-) Anglo-Indian

author. His works combine elements of magic
realism, satire and historical fiction often based
on Indian sub-continent. Notable works include
Midnight's Children (1981), Shame (1983) and
Satanic Verses (1988).

[Link] KING (1947-) American author

of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction,
suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. One of the best selling authors of
modern times.

[Link] R.R MARTIN (1948) American

author of epic fantasy series - A Song of Ice
and Fire, his international best-selling series of
fantasy has been adapted for the screen as
"The Game of Thrones."

[Link] ADAMS (1952-2001) British

writer of humorous and obscure science
fiction. Adams wrote a best selling trilogy (of
five books) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy - which began as a BBC play.

[Link] (1965) British author of the

Harry Potter Series which has become the best
selling book series of all time. Her first book
was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(1997). Rowling has also published adult
fiction, such as The Casual Vacancy (2012) and
The Cuckoo's Calling (2013).

[Link] HOSSEINI (1965) Afghan born

American writer. Notable works include: The
Kite Runner (2003) A Thousand Splendid Suns
(2007) And the Mountains Echoed (2013