Contemporary arts

Lazaro Francisco

- (1898-1981) - Icon in Tagalog writing - Founder: Kapatiran ng mga alagad ng wikang pilipino (KAWIKA) - Works: binhi at bunga, cesa ama, ama, bayang nagpatiwakal, sa panahon ng krus, ang pamana ng pulubi, bago lumubog ang araw. - Short stories: deo, arts, beteran, and idiots

Francisco Sionil Jose

- (1924) - Works have been translated into more than 20 language (28 language) - Works are based on class struggles and the colonization in the society. - Novels : Pretenders- a man's separation from his pook background and the dissipation of his or wife's prosperous family. - The pretenders, tree brother, my executioner, mass, po-on. The Rosales saga- narrating lines of generation of the samsons who's personal lives inter twin in the social struggles of the nation. - Hindsight- weekly column in the Philippines star.

Alejandro R. Roces

- (1929-2000) - Exceptional works of komiks short stories - Works: My brother's peculiar chicken- it reveals how much people perceive things around them(won an award at university of Arizona). Several newspaper columns- focused on derelict aspells of international publications. - Multi awarded writer, receivity honors, and recognition like rizal pro partia award and He Was CC"para as sining.

Buenvenido lumbera

- 1982 (lipa batangas) - He is an award-winning poet, librettist, scholar - Works: likhang dila, likhang diwa(1993), balaybay: mga tulang lunot at manibalang(2002), sa sariling bayan: apat na dulang ng musika(2004), aqunyas sa haciende luisita:pakikiramay. - Poetry: ka bels, the yaya's lullaby, servant, sadness, eulogy of roaches, jamborzkie light. - Award: 1st Asian gay awardee, national artist for literature, ramon magsaysay award for journalism, Carlos palanca university, 1st Asian scholar in residence at university of hawaii, gawad ccp - Schooling: UST (journalism) - He introduced new aesthetic to traditional tagalog literature with what is known as bacy poetry.

N.V.M. Gonzales

- B-day: September 1,1915 (1915-1999) - Novelist, short story writer, playlist, poet - Nestor, Vicente, Madali, Gonzales - 2years before his death he proclaimed as the national artist for litetature. - Famous works: Winds of april(1941), A season of grace(1956), The bamboo dances(1988), Land and the sun, Happiest boy in the world. - Works wore: Published in Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian, Indonesian. - Studied: National University (Dropped out) - Awards: Rockefeller foundation, Palanca Memorial Award for literature, City of Manila medal of honor. - The short fiction: The tomato game, The grammar of dreams and the stories, Nick to and beyond, seven bills away. - His 1st novel is THE WINDS OF APRIL.

Francisco Arcellana

- B-day: September 6,1916 @ Sta.Cruz, Manila - (1916-2002) - One of the greatest Filipino poets. - Studied: Tondo intermediate school manila West high school (florentino Torres high school premed at UP, Bachelor of philosophy) - while he was a student he wrote, "The man who would be poe." - His first story prose poetic form - Some of his works: Death in a factory, A clow remembers, Divided by two, The other woman, To touven you

Carlos L. Quirino

- Biographer and historian (1997) - One of the most talented biographer of his time - First Filipino to be recognized as the national artist in literature in 1997 - Took journalism at university of Wisconsin at Madison. - The great malayan- one of the earliest biography of rizal - Man of Destiny (1935)- biography about 2nd president of the Philippines (Manuel L. Quezon) - Assistant of president elpidio qurino - helped him study law. - Topics: politics, arts, business, agriculture

Jose Garcia Villa

- Considered as a powerful literary influence in the country - Many people think that his personality and writing style are eccentric unusual. - If you will study Bill's work, you will notice his use of comma in every word. Style: similar to semats architecture and measures point illism. - Pointillism- artist uses small, distinct dots to create image. - Story collection- foot note to youth- taken of the Philippines and others - Poetry- DOVEGLION- collected poems - Poems ss, and poema in praise of love- the best love poems - National artist of the philosophy - Pen name: DOVEGLION - combination of dove, eagle, lion - Poem: pire, a poem must be nagical. Ex. AA,BB,CC,DD,EE,FF...

Nick Joaquin

- Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin (1917-2004) - Quijano de Manila - First short story: " The sorrows of voude ville" - Writer, Journalist, Historian - 1976- he became a national artist. - Works: The woman who had two navels, A portrait of the artist as a filipino: an elegy in the three scews, Manila, A Manila: a history for the young ballad of the five balttles, Rizal in soga: a life for student fans, Almanac for manileños, cave and shadow - Cause of death: Cardiac arrest.

Carlos P. Romulo

- Was an evay, statesman, soldier, correspondent writer, and founder of the boy scout of the philippines. - He is a reporter at the age of 16 - He is a publisher at 32 - Only Asian to be awarded a Pulitzer prize in journalism - Works: the united- novel, I walked with heroes- auto biography , I saw the fall of the Phillipines- mother america, I see the philippines rise(a wartime menoits) - Organization: un - Romulo's auto biography: "i walk with heroes(1961)"

Cirilo F. Bautista

- highly praised poet, fictionist, essayist - He is a palanca hall of tower - Awards: national book awards, gawad jose corazon de jesus, gawad ccp para sa sining, Philippine centenial prize for epic poetry. - Works: the trilogy of saint lazarus (2001), believe and betray: New collected poems (2006), galaw ng asoge (2004), the house of true desire: essay about life and literature (2011), things happened poems (2012)