CANONICAL FILIPINO WRITERS & THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

Names of the Birthdate- Place/ Occupation/ Awards Received Literary Piece (Title)
Filipino Death Hometo Career
Writers wn
EDITH L. April 22, None Poet -National Artist for “The Return” (Poem)
TIEMPO 1919-Aug. Fictionist Literature 1999 “Lament for the Littlest Fellow”
21, 2012 Teacher -Carlos Palanca (Poem)
Literary Critic Memorial Award “Bonsai” (Poem)
“The Black Monkey” (Short Story)
“A Blade of Fern” (Novel)
JOSE GARCIA Aug. 5, 1908- Manila -National Artist for “Man Songs” (A book collection of
VILLA July 7, 1997 Literature 1973 Poetry)
-A recipient on the “Mir-i-nisa” (Poem)
Guggenheim “Footnote to Youth” (Poem)
Fellowship
-Won in Philippine Free
Press 1929
AMADO VERA Sept. 13, Hagonoy, Poet -National Artist for “Mga Ibong Mandaragit” (Novel)
HERNANDEZ 1903- Bulacan Playwright Literature 1973 “Bayang Malaya” (Poem)
a.k.a (Amante March 24, Novelist “Isang Dipang Langit” (Poem)
Hernani, 1970 Journalist “Luha ng Buwaya” (Poem)
Herminia Dela (Newspaper- “Tudla at Tudling: Katipunan ng
Riva, Julio Abril) Watawat, mga Nalathalang Tula (Collection of
Pagkakaisa, Poetry)
Makabayan, “Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas”
Sampaguita, (Poem)
Mabuhay Extra, “Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang
Taliba & Ang Masa) Bagol” (Poem)
NICK JOAQUIN May 4, 1917- Paco, Poet -National Artist for “Doña Geronima” (Biography)
a.k.a (Quijano April 29, 2004 Manila Fictionist Literature 1976 “Candido’s Apocalypse”
De Manila) Essayist (Biography)
Biographer “The Order of Melchizedek”
Playwright (Biography)
Editor (Philippine “The Woman who had Two Navel”
Free Press) (Essay)
“A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino”
(Play)
“Manila, My Manila: A History for
the Young” (Non-Fiction)
“The Ballad of the Five Battles”
(Poem)
“Rizal in Saga” (Poem)
 “Almanac for Manileños” (Poem)
“Cave and Shadows” (Poem)
CARLOS P. Jan. 14, 1898- Intramuro President (United -National Artist for “I am a Filipino” (Essay)
ROMULO Dec. 15, 1985 s, Manila Nations General Literature 1982 “The Philippines Herald” (Essay)
Assembly) “I Saw the Fall of the Philippines”
Essayist (Essay)
“I See the Philippine Rise” (Essay)
“Mother America: A Living Story of
Democracy” (Essay)
“I Walked with Heroes” (Biography)
FRANCISCO None None Writer None “The Flowers of May” (Poem)
ARCELLANA Poet “The Mats” (Poem)
Essayist “How to Read” (Poem)
Critic “Christmas Gift” (Screenplay)
Journalist “Frankie” (Essay)
Teacher “The Man Who Would be Poe”
Member (The (Essay)
Veronicans) “Death in Factory” (Short Story)
“A Clown Remembers” (Short Story)
“Lina” (Short Story)
FRANCISCO F. Dec. 3, 1924 Rosales, Journalist -Ramon Magsaysay Founded the Philippine PEN
SIONEL JOSE Pangasina Writer Award for Journalism ((Organization of Writer)
n Poet -Ramon Magsaysay Rosales Saga (Series Novels)
Playwright Award for Literature “Po-on” (Novel)
Novelists -Ramon Magsaysay “Tree” (Novel)
Award for Creative “The Pretenders” (Novel)
Communications “Mass” (Novel)
-National Artist for “And my Brother” (Novel)
Literature 2001 “My Executioner” (Novel)
“The God Stealer “ (Short Story)
Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short
Stories (Compilation of Short
Stories)
“The Molave” (Book)
Children’s Book/Children’s Stories
VIRGILIO S. Mar. 9, 1944 None Poetic -National Artist for “Makinasyon at Peregrinasyon”
ALMARIO Literary Historian Literature 2003 (Poem)
a.k.a. (RIO Critic -Carlos Palanca “Doktrina ng Anak PAwis” (Poem)
ALMA) Founded the Memorial Award “Mga Retrato at Rekwerdo” (Poem)
“Galian sa Arte at “Muli” (Poem)
Tula (GAT) “Sa Kandungan ng Lupa” (Poem)
Chairman -Unyon “Peregrinasyon at iba pang Tula
ng mga Manunulat (Poem)
 sa Pilipinas “Ang Makata sa Panahon ng
(UMPIL) Makina”
Executive Director- “Taludtod at Talinghaga (Tagalog
National Prosody)
Colmmission for “Balagtasismo versus Modernismo
Culture and the (Poetry)
Arts (NCAA) “Makata sa Panahon ng Makina”
Chairman- (Book of Literary Criticism)
Komisyon ng
Wikang Filipino
(KWF)

BIENVENIDO S. April 11,2024 None Writer -Palanca Awards for “Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa”
LUMBERA Poet Poetry (Poetry Collection)
-Ramon Magsaysay “Sunog sa Lipa at Iba pang Tula”
Awards for Journalism (Poetry Collection)
-Ramon Magsaysay “Balaybay: Mga Tulang Lunot at
Awards for Literature Manibalang” (Poetry Collection)
-Ramon Magsaysay “Abot Tanaw: Sulyap at Suri sa
Awards for Creative Nagbabagong Kultura at Lipunan”
Communication Arts (Critical Works)
-Philippine Centennial “Writing the Nation/Pag-Akda ng
Literary Prize 1998 Bansa” (Critical Works)
-National Artist for “Tradition and Influences in its
Literature 2006 Development” (Poem)
“Tales of the Manuvu” (Librettos)
“Rama Hari” (Librettos)
“Sa Sariling Bayan: Apat na Dulang
May Musika” (Librettos)
CIRILO F. July 9, 1941 None Poet -Awarded an Honorary “Summer Suns” (Poem)
BAUTISTA Fictionist Degree “International “Words and Battlefields” (Poem)
Essayist Writing Program-Iowa “The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus”
Critic University (Poem)
Writer (Nonfiction) -Carlos Palanca Awards “Fiction: Stories” (Short Story)
Taught Creative for Poetry “Galaw ng Asoge” (Short Story)
Writing and -Carlos Palanca Awards “Breaking Signs” (Literary Theory &
Literature) for Fiction Critical Studies)
-Carlos Palanca Awards “A Theoria on the Poem” (Literary
His Literary for Essay-English & Theory & Critical Studies)
Journals, Papers, Filipino “The Estrella D. Alfon Anthology
Magazines -Philippine Free Press Vol-1” (Short Story)
published in Awards for Fiction
United States, -Manila Critics’ Circle
 Japan, National Book Awards
Netherlands, -Gawad Balagtas
China, Romania, (Unyon ng Manunulat
Hongkong, ng Pilipnas)
Germany & -Pablo Roman Prize for
Malaysia the Novel
-The Highest Accolades
from Manila, Quezon
City & Iligan City