21ST CENTURY LITERATURE 03

BLAAN- it belongs to Bilic micro group of the

Philippine language subgroup, along with Giangan Manovo, Tiruray and Tboli.

TBOLI- also Tau Bilil, Tau Bulul or Tagabilil is an austronesian language spoken in the southern
Philippine island of Mindano.

TINURAY- teduray is an austronesian language of the southern Philippines.

AUTHORS:
Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz Candy Gourlay
- is an award-winning writer - is a Filipino author based in the United Kingdom

who teaches literature and creative writing At Errol A. Merquita

the University of the Philippines Mindanao. - as born and raised in Los Amigos,

Dr. Macario D. Tiu Tugbok Davao City.

- has a doctorate in education, teaches Ricardo de Ungria

literature at the Ateneo de Davao University - He is a founding member of Philippine Literary

Tita Lacambra Ayala Arts Council (PLAC).

-is an acclaimed writer, poet and painter. Aida Rivera Ford

Leoncio Deriada - “Love in the Cornhusks” is one of five well-

He was born in Iloilo but spent crafted stories for which Rivera-Ford

most of his life in Davao. won the Jules & Avery Hopwood Prize in Michigan

Emerson B. Christie Arturo B. Rotor

- (1878–1967) was an ethnologist and linguist. - was an internationally respected writer of fiction and

non- fiction in English