Aguirre,Christine Joy 10:00-11:00 MWF
BSIT
National Artist of the Philippines in Literature
1) Jose Garcia Villa is a Filipino poet and a National Artist for Literature. He is known for
introducing the "reversed consonance rime scheme," as well as for "comma poems" that
made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative way.
Works:
1. Footnote to Youth 5. Poems in Praise of Love: The
2. Many Voices Best Love Poems of Jose
3. Poems by Doveglion Garcia Villa
4. Poems 55 6. "Mir-i-nisa"
2) Amado Vera Hernandez was a Filipino writer, novelist, and labor leader. He wrote to
criticize social injustice in the Philippines and was imprisoned for his involvement in
communist activities. However, his various works were eventually recognized and he became
a National Artist for Literature in 1973.
Works:
Novel
1. Mga Ibong Mandaragit 2. Luha ng Buwaya
Poems
1. Isang Dipang Langit 4. Bartolina
2. Panata sa Kalayaan 5. Kung Tuyo na ang Luha
3. Ang Dalaw Mo Aking Bayan
Short stories
1. Wala ng Lunas 4. Dalawang Metro sa
2. Kulang sa Dilig Lupang Di-Malipad ng
3. Langaw sa Isang Basong Uwak
Gatas 5. Ipinanganak ang Isang
Kaaway sa Sosyedad
6. Magpinsan
3) Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín, best known as Nick Joaquin was a Filipino writer, historian
and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels. He was also one of the National
Artists of the Philippines for Literature.
Works:
1. Prose and Poems 18. Language of the Street and Other
2. The Woman Who had Two Navels Essays
3. La Naval de Manila and Other 19. The Ballad of the Five Battles
Essays 20. The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on
4. A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino History as Three Generations
5. Tropical Gothic 21. Almanac for Manileños
6. A Question of Heroes 22. Cave and Shadows
7. Nora Aunor & Other Profiles 23. The Quartet of the Tiger Moon:
8. Ronnie Poe & Other Silhouettes Scenes from the People Power
9. Reportage on Lovers Apocalypse
10. Reportage on Crime 24. Collected Verse
11. Amalia Fuentes & Other Etchings 25. Culture and History: Occasional
12. Gloria Diaz & Other Delineations Notes on the Process of Philippine
13. Doveglion & Other Cameos Becoming
14. Language of the Streets and Other 26. Manila, My Manila: A History for
Essays the Young
15. Manila: Sin City and Other 27. The D.M. Guevara Story
Chronicles 28. Mr. F.E.U., the Culture Hero That
16. Tropical Baroque Was Nicanor Reyes
17. Stories for Groovy Kids 29. Rizal in Saga
4) Carlos Peña Rómulo was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author.
Works:
1. I Saw the Fall of The Philippines 6. Crusade in Asia
2. Mother America 7. The Meaning of Bandung
3. My Brother Americans 8. The Magsaysay
4. I See The Philippines Rise 9. I Walked with Heroes
5. The United (autobiography)
5) Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez was a Filipino writer of fiction, poetry and essays and one
of the National Artists of the Philippines for Literature.
Works:
Novels
1. The Winds of April, 1997 3. A Season of Grace. Manila
2. The Bamboo Dancers. 4. The Winds of April. Manila
Manila
Short Fiction
1. A Grammar of Dreams. 4. Look, Stranger, on this
2. The Bread of Salt and Other Island Now
Stories 5. Children of the Ash-Covered
3. Mindoro and Beyond Loam
6. Seven Hills Away
6) Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana was a writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist,
and teacher and one of the most important progenitors of Filipino short stories in English.
Works:
1. Selected Stories (1962) 4. Philippine PEN Anthology of Short
2. Poetry and Politics: The State of Stories, editor (1962)
Original Writing in English in the 5. Fifteen Stories: Story Masters 5,
Philippines Today (1977) editor (1973)
3. The Francisco Arcellana Sampler
(1990).
7) Edith [Link] is a renowned poet and fictionist. She is also a teacher and a literary critic.
She has established herself as a major figure in Filipino Literature with works that have been
remarked for both style and substance.
Works:
Novels
1. A Blade of Fern (1978) 4. One, Tilting Leaves
2. His Native Coast (1979) (1995)
3. The Alien Corn (1992) 5. The Builder (2004)
6. The Jumong (2006)
Short Story Collections
Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)
Poetry
1. The Tracks of Babylon 3. Beyond, Extensions
and Other Poems (1966) (1993)
2. The Charmer's Box 4. Marginal Annotations
(1993) and Other Poems (2001)
5. Bibliophile
8) F. Sionil Jose or Francisco Sionil Jose is a Filipino journalist and fictionist.
Works:
Novels
1. Po-on. Manila, 1984 8. Mass.
2. Tree. Manila, 1978 Amsterdam/Brussels
3. 1st part of DON 9. 2nd part of THE
VICENTE SAMSONS
4. My Brother, My 10. Ermita. Manila
Executioner 11. Gagamba. Manila
5. 2nd part of DON 12. Viajero. Manila
VICENTE 13. Sin. Manila, 1994
6. The Pretenders. Manila, 14. Ben Singkol. Manila
1962 15. Vibora! Manila
7. 1st part of THE 16. Sherds. Manila
SAMSONS
Novellas
1. Two Filipino Women
2. Three Filipino Women
