Francisco Arcellana (1990)

• Fiction’s purpose is to render truth & Virgilio S. Almario

present reality
• aka Rio Alma
• His works are indispensable part of tertiary
• poems= examination of self & society
level syllabi
• pilandok series
• wrote short stories, Death in a Factory,
Frankie, The Mats

Bienvenido Lumbera (2006)

Jose Garcia Villa (1973) • pioneered the fusion of fine arts & popular
imagination : Libretto
• Pen name: Doveglion
• likhang dila, likhang diwa (Filipino &
• aka Pope of Greenwich Village
English poems)
• Introduced rhyme scheme, “reversed
consonance”
Lazaro Francisco (2009)
• wrote Footnote to Youth, Many Voices,
Poems 55 • Master of Tagalog Novel
• social realist tradition
Alejandro Roces (2003) • Established KAWIKA in 1958
• most of his writings is about gambling & • Maganda pa ang daigdig
negative habits of Filipinos
• wrote We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers, My
Brother’s peculiar chicken Cirilo Bautista (2014)
• Baguio Writers Group Iligan National
Writers Workshop, Philippine Literary Arts
Nick Joaquin (1976) Council
• aka Quijano De Manila • Wrote Summer’s Suns, Words &
Battlefields, The trilogy of Saint Lazarus
• explored Philippine & colonial past under
Spain
• probed into psychology of social changes
• wrote Candido’s apocalypse, Doña
Jeronima, May Day’s Eve

Amando V. Hernandez (1973)

• Dipang langit & Bayang Malaya