SOME NOTABLE WRITERS FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILIPPINE

LITERATURES

Michael M. Coroza writes poetry, fiction, critical essays and is engaged in literary translation. The
writer’s works have been published in national and international literary magazines: Kritika Kultura,
Philippine Studies, Unitas, Tomas, Bulawan Journal of Arts and Culture, Daluyan, Loyola Schools Review,
and the Malay Indonesian Studies. He is famous for promoting the traditional poetic genre of the
Philippines “Balagtasan”. He participated in international poetry readings “Kuala Lumpur-10” (2004) and
the Second

literary festival “Korea-ASEAN” in Jakarta (2011). Among his works are: ASEANO: An Anthology of Poems
from Southeast Asia (1995), Dili’t Dilim (1997), Sounds of Asia (2011), Ang mga Lambing ni Lolo Ding
(2012), and Nawawala si Muningning (2015).
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MANUEL E. ARGUILLA (1911-1944) was an Ilocano who wrote in English. He was best known for his short
story, “How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife”, which received first prize in the Commonwealth
Literary Contest in 1940. Most of his stories depict life in Barrio Nagrebcan, Bauang, La Union, where he
was born in 1911.
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Anthony Tan was born on 26 August 1947, Siasi [Muddas], Sulu. His degrees AB English, 1968, MA
Creative Writing, 1975, and Ph.D. English Lit., 1982 were all obtained from the Silliman University where
he edited Sands and Coral, 1976. For more than a decade, he was a member of the English faculty at SU
and regular member of the panel of critics in the Silliman Writers Workshop. He taught briefly at the
DLSU and was Chair of the English Dept. at MSU Iligan Institute of Technology where he continues to
teach. A member of the Iligan Arts Council, he helps Jaime An Lim and Christine Godinez-Ortega run the
Iligan Writers Workshop/Literature Teachers Conference. He also writes fiction and children’s stories. He
has won a number of awards, among them, the Focus Award for poetry, the Palanca 1st prize for Poems
for Muddas in 1993; also, the Palanca for essay. Among his works are The Badjao Cemetery and Other
Poems, 1985 and Poems for Muddas, Anvil, 1996.
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José Iñigo Homer Lacambra Ayala or also known as Joey Ayala was born on June 1, 1956 in Bukidnon,
Philippines. He was known for his folk and contemporary pop music artist in the Philippines, he is also
known for his songs that are more on the improvement of the environment. He is a finalist of Philippine
Popular Music Festival 2013.
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Merlie M. Alunan graduated from Silliman University with an MA in Creative Writing in 1974. She
teaches at the Creative Writing Center, University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College. She lives
in Tacloban City. She received various awards like Lillian Jerome Thornton Award for Nonfiction, Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature, National Book Award, Sunthorn Phu Literary Awards, and
Ani ng Dangal. Among her works are Heartstone, Sacred Tree, Amina among the angels, Selected poems,
Kabilin: 100 Years of Negros Oriental, Fern Garden: An Anthology of Women Writing in the South, Songs
of ourselves: writings by Filipino women in English, and many other
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Ivy Alvarez is a New Zealand-based Filipino Australian poet, editor, and reviewer. Alvarez has had her
work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, New Zealand,
Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the US, South Africa, and online. Alvarez was born in the Philippines
and grew up in Tasmania, Australia. While reading English at the University of Tasmania, she published
in various literary journals and anthologies, and subsequently became the reviews editor of Cordite
Poetry Review, an Australian online poetry journal.
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Suzette Severo Doctolero (born December 16, 1968 Calabanga, Camarines Sur) is a Filipino screenwriter
for film and television. She is best known for being the creator of Encantadia in 2005 and the succeeding
related television series including the Encantadia 2016 reboot. She is mostly credited as screenwriter,
series creator and creative consultant for GMA Network. Her other works include Amaya, Indio[ and My
Husband’s Lover. She also wrote the story for the film Let the Love Begin and became the creative
consultant for the television series Alyas Robin Hood[ and Destined to be Yours.
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Aida Rivera-Ford was born in Jolo, Sulu. She became the editor of the first two issues of Sands and Coral,
the literary magazine of Silliman University. In 1949, she graduated with an AB degree, major in English,
Cum Laude. In 1954, she obtained an MA in English Language and Literature at the University of
Michigan and won the prestigious Jules and Avery Hopwood for fiction. In 1980, she founded the first
school of Fine Arts in Mindanao – the Learning Center of the Arts, now known as the Ford Academy of
the Arts.
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