Nueva Ecija

Rony Diaz

Some of his publications include:

 Death in a Sawmill and Other Stories (1978)

 Introduction to Literature, co-author (1964)

 fiction anthologized in Modern Philippine Short Stories (1962)

 An Anthology of Carlos Palanca Memorial Award Winners Volume 1 and

Volume 2

Rogelio Mangahas is a Palanca first prize winner for his collection of poems, “Mga
Duguang Plakard” and for his critical essay on Edgardo M. Reyes’s novel, “Sa mga
Kuko ng Liwanag.” He co-authored and edited Manlilikha, an anthology of poems,
considered by some critics as a monumental achievement in modern Filipino poetry
in the 1960s.

He worked as editor-in-chief of Phoenix Publishing House and of SIBS Publishing

House and taught Filipino language and literature at De La Salle University,

University of the East, UP Manila and St. Scholastica’s College. He served as a

consultant for literature at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and country editor

ofTenggara, a literary journal of Southeast Asia published in Malaysia .

He was a recipient of ‘Poet of the Year’ award from SWP and Gawad Pambansang

Alagad ni Balagtas from UMPIL (Writers Union of the Philippines).

He was born on May 9, 1939 in Palasinan, Cabiao, Nueva Ecija

Maria Odulio de Guzman  

 
Maria Odulio de Guzman was a teacher, educator, principal, writer, and author.
She was the first Filipino female principal of a secondary school in the Philippines.
She worked as a teacher at the Nueva Ecija High School in Nueva Ecija,
Philippines from 1918 to 1928. She received her education from Radford State
Teacher's College in the Virginia, United States. She was a professor at
the Philippine Normal College.  She was a compiler and author of several
[1]

multilingual dictionaries in Tagalog (Filipino), Spanish, and English. She was also

a translator of Jose Rizal's Noli me Tangere and a co-translator of El filibusterismo,
another novel by Rizal. [2]

Works
Among the dictionaries M.O. de Guzman authored include: [3]

 English-Tagalog-Spanish and Tagalog-English Vocabulary, (with co-author

Domingo de Guzman, Quezon City, Pressman, 1963, 228 pages)
 An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1966)
 New Tagalog-English English-Tagalog (1966)
 New English-Filipino Filipino-English Dictionary (1968)
 English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1966)
 New English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1968)
 The New Filipino-English/English-Filipino Dictionary (January 1, 1968)
 Bagong Diksiyonaryo: Pilipino-Ingles, Ingles-Pilipino (1968)
 Diksiyunaryo Pilipino-Ingles Pilipino (Pilipino-English-Pilipino
Dictionary) (1970)
 An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1979)
 English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1982)
 An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (January 1, 1988)
 English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (January 1, 1993)
 English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English (2000)
 New Tagalog-English Dictionary (2006)
 Bagong Talatinigan: Pilipino-Ingles Ingles-Pilipino ISBN 971-08-1745-0
Mga Akdang Isinalin

 El Filibusterismo ni Dr. Jose Rizal

 Noli Me Tangere ni Dr. Jose Rizal

Wilfredo O. Pascual Jr.

 Born 1969 (age 48–49)
San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Nationality Filipino

Known for Writing

Notable work "Devotion"

Wilfredo O. Pascual Jr. (born 1969) is an internationally acclaimed essayist, [1][2] winner

of the Curt Johnson Prose Award for Nonfiction[3] and a runner-up to the Steinberg
Essay Prize. In 2016, he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He
grew up in the Philippines where his essays have won several national awards, [4]
[5]
 including the Palanca's grand prize twice and the Philippine Free Press Literary
Awards. He is also a Board of Trustees Adviser and member of the Samahang
Makasining (Artist Club), Inc. since 2005.[6][7]

AWARDS
Winner, 2015 Curt Johnson Prize for Nonfiction Notable Citation, 2016 Best American
Essays "You Have Me" December Literary Journal, Issue 26.2 2015 Judge and
acclaimed poet Albert Goldbarth hailed its "durable, clear, grammatically sophisticated
sentences... The prose here is smart and relies not on loose imagery but on tight
declaration. Its mix of research into the sciences (heredity, genetics) and recounting of
the personal (a father's death, a son's marriage) are savvily and seamlessly twined."
Runner-up, 2016 Steinberg Essay Prize "Terminus" Fourth Genre, forthcoming
February 2017 Judge and essayist Ned Stuckey French: "... wonderfully written, very
affecting... it illuminated its subject -- gay life in a global context -- in a way I at least
have not seen before."
Nominated for the 2016 Pushcart Prize and 2016 Best of the Net "Animalia" Your
Impossible Voice, Fall 2015. A personal essay that gathers the author's most
meaningful encounters with the animal kingdom in San Francisco, Thailand, and the
Philippines.
First Place, Essay, Philippine Free Press Literary Awards. "Lost and Bloodletting in
Mount Kitchakut" Philippine Free Press, 2008.
While ostensibly a first-person account of a near-disastrous hiking trip on the slopes of a
mountain in Thailand, the author elevates it to a rumination on identity, family, and
nation. Using a funny, absurd episode involving leeches as a take-off point, he proceeds
to examine the layers of meaning embedded in this unusual incident, and filters them
through the multi-faceted sensibilities of a Filipino-writer-son-exile, turning the event into
a metaphor for his own search for an ever-elusive sense of home. At once deeply
personal and starkly universal, this essay tempers its quiet reflections with a worldly
wisdom that is pointed without being cynical, elegiac without being regretful.
First Place, Essay. 2007 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. "Lost in Childrensville"
Judge: Isagani Cruz
First Place, Essay. 2004 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. "Devotion" Philippine
Studies, Vol. 53, Nos. 2 and 3 After many years abroad, the author returns to his
country to meet the woman whose art and life inspired him. A personal essay on
fandom in the Philippines. Judge: Conrado de Quiros [11][12]

Other writings[edit]
"Devotion 2" Kritika Kultura 25 (2015) Abstract: In 2004, the author spent a week with
fans of Nora Aunor in New York during the Philippine Superstar's U.S. concert tour. This
personal essay is a ruminative account of a wayfaring trip that began the year before
when the author flew to Manila and met the star for the first time. It's a pilgrimage of
sorts, tracking the wandering icon in Manhattan, from her hotel bedroom to Times
Square all the way to the airport. It crosses time and space from aquatic Bicol and
Atlantic City to mystical Byzantine times and the tumultuous years of the Marcos
dictatorship. It grapples with symbols and stories, the faith and powers at work in the act
of devotion; how, collectively, the fans mirror a nation's hopes for radical transformation,
at home or elsewhere – a journey that ends with a stirring personal message from Nora
Aunor. Ed. Joel David[13][14]
"Pintig at Panganib" Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature Vol. 9
(2015). A suite of four poems in Filipino set in Bangkok, Recto, Zanzibar, and San
Francisco. Ed. Luna Sicat and Eugene Evasco
"Inheritance" Esquire (Philippines) May 2015. A genetic portrait. Ed. Erwin Romulo and
Sarge Lacuesta.
"Wrestling with the Batibat" Mondo Marcos. 2010. Writings on Martial Law and the
Marcos Babies (Ed. Frank Cimatu and Roland Tolentino)
"A Filipino in the Charlie Brown Musical" Caracoa 2006. The Poetry Journal of the
Philippine Literary Arts Council
"Patotoo sa Pelikula ng Batang Nagpakasakit" Si Nora Aunor Sa Mga Noranian. 2005.
Sanaysay. Mga Paggunita at Pagtatapat. Patnugot: Nestor de Guzman
"Guns" Father Poems (Anvil Publishing, 2004). Ed. Alfred Yuson and Gemino Abad
"Para Sa Iyo Na Trenta Anyos Na Nang Umibig" (1996); "Ang Binatang Hindi
Dumudungaw Sa Bintana" (1994); "Ang Totoong Dahilan Kung Bakit Limang Araw
Akong Mawawala" (1993). Tatlong Tula sa Sunday Inquirer.
Lahar A musical on the Mount Pinatubo eruption (1993) Staged by the Lapiang Hinabi
ng Mga Artista sa Gitnang Luson. Central Luzon State University
"Sanlibong Alitaptap" Rosas (Anvil Publishing 1992). Maikling nobela. Patnugot Lualhati
Bauti

Sicat, Rogelio R.
Born in 1940, Rogelio R. Sicat (also “Sikat” in some publications) left his
hometown San Isidro, Nueva Ecija in the 1950s to work on a degree in
journalism at the University of Santo Tomas. After serving as a campus
writer and literary editor of The Varsitarian, Sicat went on to become one of
the greatest pioneers of Philippine fiction by deliberately choosing Filipino for
the language of his prose, and by veering away from the concerns and
conventions of the Western modernist writers.

Sicat’s work, which rejuvenated Philippine literature’s tradition of social

consciousness, first appeared in the Tagalog literary magazine Liwayway. He
gained recognition in the Palanca awards in 1962, and in 1965 came out in
an anthology, Mga Agos sa Disyerto, alongside like-minded young writers.
Sicat wrote on through the decades, establishing his position in literary
history as fictionist, playwright and professor, eventually accepting deanship
in the University of the Philippines Diliman.
“Impeng Negro” and “Tata Selo”, both of which have been interpreted into
film, are only two of Sicat’s acclaimed stories. His other works include Dugo
sa Bukang-Liwayway, Pagsalunga: Piniling Kuwento at Sanaysay, and the
play “Moses, Moses”. Sicat died in 1997, but was honored a final time
through a posthumous National Book Award the following year for his
translation of William J. Pomeroy’s work into the title Ang Gubat:
Isang Personal na Rekord ng Pakikilabang Gerilya ng mga Huk sa Pilipinas .

PAMPANGA

rancisco Alonso Liongson 

Francisco Alonso Liongson

A portrait of Francisco Alonso Liongson.

Born July 1, 1896

Bacolor, Pampanga, Captaincy General of
the Philippines

Died May 14, 1965 (aged 68)

Manila, Philippines
 Education Licentiate in Civil Law, Bachelor of Arts

Known for playwriting

Francisco Alonso Liongson (1896–1965) lived in one of the most exciting

periods of Philippine history. He was born into an Ilustrado family
from Pampanga, Philippinesat the turn of the 20th century and raised with the
revolutionary values of an emerging Philippine identity which held freedom,
justice, honor, patriotism and piety sacred. He witnessed the rapid changes that
transformed the Philippines from a repressed society cloistered in a Spanish
convent for over 300 years into modern, hedonistic consumers of American
Hollywood glamor for 50 years, this period of transition brought instabilities to
core family values as the generation gaps wreaked havoc on the social, political,
economic and political foundations of a young nation. It was a period of
experimentation where the natives began to grapple a new democratic way of life
and self-rule; where sacred paternalistic relationships were giving way to
egalitarian modes; where traditional gender and familial roles were questioned,
and where a new foreign language and the need for a national alternative were
alienating the nation from understanding the aspirations of its elders. Liongson, in
his unique, inimitable literary style captured snap shots of these struggles with
anachronism in plays and articles written in the language that he mastered and
loved best, Spanish, his works have since become precious gems of Philippine
literature in Spanish and historic records of the Filipino psyche and social life
between 1896 and 1950.
Literary works

Don Paco was regarded as the most prolific producer of Spanish theatrical works in the Philippines, they
included: El Unico Cliente, Mi Mujer es Candidata, ¿Es Usted Anti o Pro?, 4-3-4-3-4, Viva La Pepa, El
Pasado Que Vuelve, Juan de la Cruz, Las Joyas de Simoun, ¿Colaborador?, and Parity. Unfinished works
included La Farsa de Hoy Dia, and Envejecer.[15]

El Unico Cliente is a comedy in one act, first staged on August 12, 1932. It dwells on how the household
is neglected when the wife insists in practising a career.

Mi Mujer es Candidata is a comedy in one act, first staged on December 30, 1932. It was written when
women first ran as candidates for public office in a general election, it discouraged women from getting
involved in politics especially if they were married.

¿Es Usted Anti o Pro? is a comedy in one act, first staged on October 26, 1933. The title was inspired by
the debates that led to the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, the people was then divided into two factions:
those in favor were called Pros, and those who were against were called Antis.

4-3-4-3-4 is a comedy in one act, first staged on February 12, 1935. It depicts the joy of two sweethearts
for having won the sweepstakes first prize with ticket number 43434, the Philippine Charity
Sweepstakes became a national indulgence in the quest for instant wealth. The Tagalog translation of
the same title was written by Epifanio Matute.[16]

Viva La Pepa is a comedy in three acts, first staged on October 12, 1935. It was based on the campaign
supporting economic protectionism for which an association called Proteccionismo Economico, Practico
y Activo was organized and simply called PEPA. The play is a parody of the National Economic
Protectionism Association (NEPA) which was founded in 1934 to hasten industrial development in
preparation for independence contained in the Tydings–Mcduffie Act.

Dramatic Philippines (circa 1954): performance of Ang Kahapong Nagbalik at the Manila Opera House.

El Pasado Que Vuelve is a drama in one prologue, three acts and one epilogue, first staged on June 19,
1937. The play portrays the last years of the Spanish regime during the Philippine Revolution, it
highlighted the good customs and virtues the country possessed in politics, society, morality, religion
and love then, compared to the degeneration and corruption of contemporary values. Considered as
Don Paquito's best work, the masterpiece was inspired by José Rizal's Noli Me Tángere and El
filibusterismo, this play was the most repeatedly staged and had been translated into Tagalog and
English. The Tagalog translation, Ang Kahapong Nagbalik, was written by Senator Francisco (Soc)
Rodrigo during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.[17]The English translation, Shadows of the
Past, was written and directed by Enrique J. Valdes in 1957. [18]

Juan de la Cruz is a drama in three acts, first staged on March 12, 1938 to celebrate the anniversary of
the Philippine Commonwealth. The play deals with the tragedies that befall men when greed, power
and lust disrupts the harmony in the home and the community at large, it features social unrest in the
home and the barrio instigated by power brokers for political advantage and selfish interests. In
Philippine imagery, Juan dela Cruz symbolizes the good, noble and honest Juan who has to carry the
cross of adversity and suffering in life as a human being.
Las Joyas de Simoun is a drama in three acts, first staged on June 19, 1940. Act 2710 of 1917 allowed
divorce in the Philippines for the first time in its history, since then, a popular clamor to repeal it
persisted. In touch with the sentiments of the times, the play portrayed a wise and fearless attack
against divorce, the title is an allusion to José Rizal's character in El filibusterismo, Simoun, who uses his
jewels and wealth to corrupt and destabilize society. The Tagalog translation, Ang Mga Hiyas ni Simoun,
was written by Primo Arambulo in 1940. [19]

¿Colaborador? is a tragic-comedy farce in one prologue and three acts, first staged on March 7, 1948 on
the Silver Anniversary celebration of Circulo Escenico. It was inspired by the pains and worries of every
Filipino of being accused a Japanese collaborator during the Second Philippine Republic.

Parity is a comedy in one act, first staged on March 6, 1949. The play did not concern the Parity Rights
plebiscite, 1947 in the Philippines, a major controversy in everyone's mind at the time, it involved the
parity and equality of rights between men and women which was an equally burning issue.

Don Paco was honored with the distinction of membership in the La Academia Filipina de la Lengua
Española (Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language) on November 7, 1947 in recognition for his
literary works.[20] He served as one of the judges in the Premio Zobel since then

 Angela Manalang Gloria

Old Maid Walking on a City Street* (1950)

She had a way of walking through concupiscence

And past the graces her fingers never twirled:
Because her mind refused the heavy burden,
Her broad feet shovelled up the world.

Querida* (1940)

The door is closed, the curtains drawn within

One room, a brilliant question mark of light...
Outside her gate an empty limousine
Waits in the brimming emptiness of night.

Revolt From Hymen** (1940)

O to be free at last, to sleep at last

As infants sleep within the womb of rest!
To stir and stirring find no blackness vast
With passion weighted down upon the breast,

To turn the face this way and that and feel

No kisses festering on it like sores,

To be alone at last, broken the seal

That marks the flesh no better than a whore's! 

Any Woman Speaks*** (1940)

Half of the world's true glamour

Is held--you know by whom?
Not by the gilt Four Hundred
Parading in perfume,

Nor by the silvered meteors

That light the celluloid sky--
But by these eyes that called you,
Blind fool who passed me by!

Ermita in the Rain*** (1940)

It is not the rain that wanly

Sobs its tale across the bay,
Not the sobs of lone acacias
Trembling darkly in the gray,

Not the groans of harried breakers

Flinging tatters on the shore,
But the phantom of your voice that
Stays me dreaming at my door.

Soledad*** (1940)

It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried,

The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let a firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for some insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.
But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul's cathedral burned by his desires
Or that he left her aureoled in flame…
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
and found her heaven in the depths of hell.

Words*** (1940)

I never meant the words I said,

So trouble not your honest head
And never mean the words I write,
But come and kiss me now goodnight.

The words I said break with the thunder

Of billows surging into spray:
Unfathomed depths withhold the wonder
Of all the words I never say.

Cementerio del Norte****

To the memory of Consuelo

And so, it all must come to this—a dying afternoon,

Thin cerements of rain around the forlorn ghost of weeping,
White tombs so desolately splendid, a priestly monotone
Drifting in sacramental grace, and then—the final sleeping.

What else is there to say? (The last word has been said too soon
For you and all the golden hopes once minted for your keeping)
White tombs so desolately splendid, bone unto alien bone,
What else is there to say, now that the sleepless dead are sleeping?

Danton Remoto
Works[edit]
Remoto's writings include the following:
Poetry[edit]

 Skin, Voices, Faces (1991)

 Black Silk Pajamas / Poems in English and Filipino (1996)
 Pulotgata; The Love Poems (2004)
 Rain
 padre faura witnesses the execution of rizal
Essays[edit]

 Seduction and Solitude

 X-Factor
 Gaydar
 Buhay Bading
 Rampa: Mga Sanaysay
 A Teacher's Tale
Books[edit]

 Ladlad
 Bright,Catholic and Gay
 Happy Na, Gay Pa

Filmography[edit]
 Tayuan mo at Panindigan! (AksyonTV, 2011–present)
 Remoto Control (Radio Pilipinas 1, 2012–present)

Aurelio Tolentino
Famous novels by Aurelio Tolentino:
Maring (1908)
Buhok ni Ester (1914)

Famous plays by Aurelio Tolentino:

Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas (1902)
Bagong Cristo (1907)
His most famous work in verse is Dakilang Asal (Noble Behavior), a
series of poems in which he described the proper behavior that young
people should observe.

Amado Yuzon
 The verse collection "Salitang Paca-Versu".
 Translations of works by Shakespeare, Omar Khayyam, Rabindranath
Tagore, Euripides, Sophocles, Victor Hugo, Sappho, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.

REGION 4A

BATANGAS

Teodoro Agoncillo
Works[edit]
 The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan (mainly a
biography of Andres Bonifacio, 1956)
 Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic (sequel to Revolt of the Masses which
discusses the events from Biak-na-Bato to the end of the Philippine–
American War, 1960)
 The Fateful Years: Japan's Adventure in the Philippines (Philippine history
during World War II, two volumes, 1965)
 History of the Filipino People (eight editions: 1960, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1977,
1984, 1986, 1990)

Teodoro M. Kalaw
On March 31, 1884, Teodoro M. Kalaw, the so-called Father of Philippine Libraries,
was born in Lipa, Batangas.

Kalaw was one of the country's most outstanding trilingual writers and historians
who specialized in the collection of original documents which became the basis
of his writings.
During his teens, he collected revolutionary leaflets and newspapers and built a
small collection of papers centered on the revolution. Among those papers were
those of Apolinario Mabini and the record of the Andres Bonifacio trial.
 Among his important works were La Revolucion Filipina (1924) and Reformas en
la Ensenanza del Derecho (1907). His book Aide de Camp to Freedom: An
Autobiography on Philippine Independence won in the Commonwealth Literary
Contest in 1940.

Bienvenido Lumbera

Works[edit]
Poetry[edit]

 Ka Bels
 The Yaya’s Lullaby
 Servant
 Sadness
 the tae
 Eulogy of Roaches
Literary criticism[edit]

 Revaluation: Essays on Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture, 1984

 Tagalog Poetry, 1570-1898: Tradition and Influences on Its Development,
1986
 Abot-Tanaw: Sulyap at Suri sa Nagbabagong Kultura at Lipunan, 1987
Textbooks[edit]

 Pedagogy
 Philippine Literature: A History and Anthology

Maranan, Edgar B.
Awit ni Pulaw, Si Sibul at si Gunaw, and Si Sabel, Si Sabiong Lumba-
lumba at ang Hiwaga sa Laot. His books of prize-winning poems, Alab:
mga tula andAgon: poems, were published in 1982 by the UP Press. His
third collection of poetry, Passage: poems 1983-2006 is coming out in
2007 under the Bookmark imprint. His book of translation, Kudaman:
Isang Epiko ng Palawan na Inawit ni Usuy (Ateneo Press, with Dr. Nicole
Revel McDonald), won a National Book Award in 1992. Bookmark in
Manila has published several of his prize-winning children’s stories.
From 1993 to 2006, Maranan worked as Foreign Information Officer of
the Philippine Embassy in London, and published The Philippine
Newsletter. He co-edited, and contributed to the book Hinabing Gunita
(Woven Memories: Filipinos in the UK), an oral history project of the
Center for Filipinos in London. He was also an adviser of UMPUK
(Ugnayan ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipino sa United Kingdom).
Bakun : three martyrs for the people by Edgar B Maranan( Book )

Agon : poems by Edgar B Maranan( Book )

Alab : mga tula by Edgar B Maranan( Book )

Ang salot, ang lumba-lumba, at ang hiwaga sa laot by Edgar B Maranan( Book )

Passage : poems, 1983-2006 by Edgar B Maranan( Book )

Si Molok at ang Bangka ni Asok by Edgar B Maranan( Book )

Si Buhawi at si Bantay by Edgar B Maranan( Book )

Claro M. Recto

Speeches and writings[edit]

 A realistic economic policy for the Philippines. Speech delivered at the
Philippine Columbian Association, September 26, 1956. ISBN B0007KCFEM
 On the Formosa Question, 1955 ISBN B0007JI5DI
 United States-Philippine Relations, 1935-1960. Alicia Benitez, ed. University
of Hawaii, 1964.
 Three years of enemy occupation: The issue of political collaboration in the
Philippines. Filipiniana series, 1985 Filipiana reprint. ISBN B0007K1JRG
 Our trade relations with the United States, 1954 ISBN B0007K8LS6
 The evil of religious test in a democracy, 1960 ISBN B0007K4Y8W
 Solo entre las sombres: Drama en un acto y en prosa, 1917; reprinted
1999 ISBN 971-555-306-0
 Asiatic monroeism and other essays: Articles of debate, 1930 ISBN
B0008A5354
 The law of belligerent occupation and the effect of the change of sovereignty
on the commonwealth treason law: With particular reference to the Japanese
occupation of the Philippines, 1946
 Our lingering colonial complex, a speech before the Baguio Press
Association, 1951
 The Quirino junket: an Objective Appraisal, 1949 ISBN B0007K4A7W
 The Philippine survival: Nationalist essays by Claro M. Recto, 1982
 Claro Recto on our Constitution, Constitutional Amendments and the
Constitutional Convention of 1991
 Our mendicant foreign policy, a speech at the commencement exercises,
University of the Philippines, 1951
 The Recto Valedictory, a collection of 10 never-delivered speeches, with
English translations by Nick Joaquin, 1985
    Vintage Recto: Memorable speeches and writings, edited by Renato
[1] [2]

Constantino, 1986
 Recto Reader: Excerpts from the Speeches of Claro M. Recto. edited by
Renato Constantino, 1965 ISBN B0006E72Z6

Jhet van Ruyven

o The Tale of Juliet
Self-Publishing and Current Work[edit]
 After attending one of Chicken Soup for the Soul author Mark Victor
Hansen's personal development seminars in 2004, van Ruyven was
encouraged to write her life story. Through her publishing company, she
was able to print and sell her book, which became a best-seller in
the Philippines.[5] The success of her book made her an in-demand
motivational speaker in the Philippines, Singapore, Japan and Canada.
 In 2009, Van Ruyven was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Bouncing back
to health, Van Ruyven now plans to write a second book that will outline
simple and practical strategies for success.[6] She currently resides in White
Rock, Surrey, British Columbia with her family.

Alejandro G. Abadilla
Major works[edit]
Aside from writing Ako ang Daigdig, Abadilla wrote several poems and
compilation of his works:

 Mga Kuwentong Ginto (Golden Stories) – he co-edited with Clodualdo del

Mundo.
 Mga Piling Katha: Ang Maikling Kathang Tagalog (Chosen Works: An
Anthology of Short Stories in Tagalog) – he co-edited with F.B. Sebastian and
A.D.G. Mariano.
 Maiikling Katha (Short Stories) – together with Commission on Filipino
Language head Ponciano B.P. Pineda.
 Mga Piling Sanaysay (Several Essays).
 Parnasong Tagalog: Katipunan ng mga piling tula mula kina Huseng Sisiw at
Balagtas hanggang sa kasalukuyang panahon ng pamumulaklak at
pagkaunlad (Tagalog Works: Compilation of Poems from Huseng
Sisiw through Francisco Balagtas until Present Times of Flourishing
Philippine Poetry).
 Ako ang Daigdig at Iba pang mga Tula (I am the World and Other Poems).
 Tanagabadilla, Una at Ikalawang Aklat (Tanagabadilla: First and Second
Books)- compilation of Abadilla's tanagas. In Filipino poetry, a tanaga is a
short poem of one stanza with 7-7-7-7 syllabic verse, with an AAAA rhyme
scheme. Usually, a tanaga is embedded with symbols. Tanagabadilla is a
coined term consisting of tanaga and Abadilla.
 Pagkamulat

Ako ang Daigdig[edit]

According to Pedro Ricarte,[1] Abadilla's major breakthrough in Philippine poetry
was when he wrote the poem "Ako ang Daigdig" ("I Am the World") in 1955.
Initially, poetry critics rejected the poem since it does not follow the traditional
poetry that uses rhyme and meter. In the poem, the repetition of the
words ako (I), daigdig (world) and tula (poem) leaves an impression that the poet,
Abadilla, is not himself. The speaker of the poem says that he himself, his world
of poem and his poems are united as one.[2]

Efren Abueg

Works by Abueg[edit]
Poems[edit]

 Muling Pagsilang ng Isang Pangarap (1964)

 Dugo sa Kayumangging Lupa (1965)
 Alimpuyo (1967)
 Dilim sa Umaga (1968)
 Malamig na Ningas (1968)
 Agaw-dilim (1969)
 Mga Kaluluwa sa Kumunoy (1972)
 Mister Mo, Lover Boy Ko (1973)
 Maraming Lalaki sa Mundo (1984)
 Huwag Mong Sakyan ang Buhawi (1985)
 Mga Haliging Inaanay (1987)
 Aawitin Ko ang Pag-ibig Mo (1992)
Short Stories[edit]

 Si Mark at ako
 Ang Bagong Paraiso (1963)
 Ang Kamatayan ni Tiyo Samuel
 Mapanglaw ang Mukha ng Buwan
 Saranggola*

Rogelio Ordoñez

Published Works[edit]

 Mga Agos sa Disyerto (Co-author)

 Saan Papunta ang mga Putok?
 Hijo y Hija de Puta
 Pluma at Papel sa Panahon ni Gloria
 Ipuipo sa Piging
 Pluma at Papel [sa Panahon ni Erap]
 Sa Pamumukadkad ng mga Talahib
Pascual H. Poblete
 Pascual H. Poblete (May 17, 1857—February 5, 1921)[1] was
a Filipino writer and feminist, remarkably noted as the first translator of Dr.
José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere into the Tagalog language.[2
Mars Ravelo

Published Works (in alphabetical order)

 Allen Borre,
 Edmund Lee,
 Ella Bajao,
 Alex Anasco,
 Gavin Villacosta ,
 Ako’y Nauuhaw,
 Ako’y Tao…May Dugo at Laman,
 Alicia Alonzo,
 Alipin ng Busabos,
 Alyas James Bond-ying,
 Anak ni Dyesebel,
 Ang Biyenan Kong Amerikana,
 Ang Pinasulabi,
 Angelito* Baby Bubut,
 Balahibong Nangangalisag,
 Bartola (Ang Mangangatay),
 Basahang Ginto,
 Bata Batuta,
 Berdugo ng mga Anghel,
 Bitter Sweet (Ang Pait at ang Tamis),
 Biyenang Hindi Tumawa,
 Bobby,
 Boksingera,
 Bondying,
 Booma,
 Boyoyoi,
 Buhay Pilipino,
 Bwana Hai,
 Captain Barbell,
 Captain Barbell Kontra Kapitan Bakal,
 Captain Barbell Versus Flash Fifita,
 Cumbanchera,
 Dalaginding na si Tessie,
 Darna,
 Darna at Ang Babaing Lawin,
 Darna at Ang Babaing Linta,
 Darna at Ang Babaing Tuod,
 Darna at Ang Impakta,
 Devil Pig,
 Diyosa, Queen of the Dancing Waters,
 Dobol Trobol,
 Dragonna,
 Dugo sa Mukha ng Buwan,
 Dyangga,
 Dyesebel,
 Elepanta
 Eternally,
 Facifica Falayfay,
 Flash Bomba,
 Galo Gimbal,
 Ganid, The Last Man on Earth,
 Ging,
 Gog,
 Goomba,
 Goomboo-Roomboo,
 Goro,
 Goyo,
 Gringgo,
 Guardians of the galaxy
 Gumuhong Daigdig,
 Haydee (The Brown Girl & The White Idol),
 Higantina, Da Big Byuti,
 Hootsy-Kootsy,
 Hudas sa Hudas,
 I Believe,
 Iniluha Ko’y Dugo,
 Inspirasyon,
 Isang Lakas,
 Ito Ba Ang Aking Ina?,
 Jack and Jill,
 Jesus Iscariote,
 Jinkee,
 Jungle Boy,
 Kamay ni Bruldo,
 Kapitan Boom,
 Kiko,
 Kitikiti,
 Kontra Partido,
 Kwatang (A Star is Born),
 Lastikman,
 Little Lucy,
 Magic Guitar,
 Magic Makinilya,
 Mambo-Dyambo,
 Mariposa,
 Maruja,
 Miss Tilapia,
 Mowmoo,
 Nakangiting Halimaw,
 Ngitnit ng Pitong Whistle Bomb,
 Pomposa,
 Prinsesa Gusgusin,
 Raul Roldan ,
 Rebecca,
 Renee Rose,
 Rita,
 Roberta,
 Rodora,
 Rosa Rossini,
 Rowena,
 Rubi-Rosa,
 Selosang-Selosa,
 Si Gorio at si Tekla,
 Silveria, Ang Kabayong Daldalera,
 Sindak!,
 Suicide Susy,
 Taong Tuod,
 Teksas, Ang Manok na Nagsasalita,
 Three Sisters,
 Thunderstar,
 Tiny Tony,
 Torpe (Inferiority Complex),
 Trudis Liit,
 Tubog sa Ginto,
 Tumbando Cana,
 Varga,
 Via Dolorosa,
 Vicky,
 Wander Ella,
 Zorina,
Chris Jay Medinilla*,

 Espira,

Gerry Alanguilan

Alanguilan created comics such as Wasted, Johnny Balbona, Humanis

Rex!, ELMER, Timawa and Where Bold Stars go to Die. He also contributed
to anthologies likeSiglo: Freedom, Siglo: Passion and Filipino Komiks, all
published in the Philippines.

HaveYouSeenThisGirL

Works[edit]
Denny began writing stories at the age of 13.[8] Her book, Diary ng Panget (Diary
of an Ugly) has been a commercial success[9] and widely followed in Wattpad.
[10]
 The book has been adapted into a film. She also wrote She Died, a manga
series that also has been published on Wattpad. Her other works
include Voiceless, that became popular because of the book's theme song "Hear
Me", Waiting for the Train (under the GOLD Manga Series), Steps to You, That
Girl, One Bad Move, I Met A Jerk Whose Name Is Seven and 10 Signatures To
Bargain With God.

Frank G. Rivera
Works[edit]
1. Tuhog-tuhog (2005)
2. Jose Rizal: iba’t ibang Pananaw (2005)
3. Halik sa Kampilan (2005)
4. Makata sa Cellphone (2005)
5. TAO: Isang Tagulaylay Sa Ikadalawampu’t Isang Siglo (2004)
6. Oyayi, Ang Zarzuela (2004)
7. Darna, Etc. (2003)
8. Sining Kambayoka's Mga Kuwentong Maranao (2003)
9. Ambon, Ulan, Baha: Sarsuwelang Pinoy (2003)
10. Gothic Telemovies (2002)
11. MULAT: Mga Isyung Panlipunan sa mga Dulang
Pantelebisyon (2002)
12. Mga Dula sa Magkakaibang Midyum (1982)
13. Ama at iba pa, Sari-saring Dula (1982)

José Rizal
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda,[7] widely known as José
Rizal

Works and writings

Rizal wrote mostly in Spanish, the lingua franca of the Spanish Philippines,
though some of his letters (for example Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos)
were written in Tagalog. His works have since been translated into a number of
languages including Tagalog and English.
Novels and essays

 Noli Me Tángere, novel, 1887 (literally Latin for 'touch me not', from John

20:17)[51]
 El Filibusterismo, (novel, 1891), sequel to Noli Me Tángere
 Alin Mang Lahi ("Whate'er the Race"), a Kundiman attributed to Dr. José
Rizal[52]
 The Friars and the Filipinos (Unfinished)
 Toast to Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo (Speech, 1884), given at Restaurante
Ingles, Madrid
 The Diaries of José Rizal
 Rizal's Letters is a compendium of Dr. Jose Rizal's letters to his family
members, Blumentritt, Fr. Pablo Pastells and other reformers
 "Come se gobiernan las Filipinas" (Governing the Philippine islands)
 Filipinas dentro de cien años essay, 1889–90 (The Philippines a Century
Hence)
 La Indolencia de los Filipinos, essay, 1890 (The indolence of Filipinos)[53]
 Makamisa unfinished novel
 Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos, essay, 1889, To the Young Women of
Malolos
 Annotations to Antonio de Moragas, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (essay,
1889, Events in the Philippine Islands)

The Triumph of Science over Death, by Rizal.

Poetry

 A La Juventud Filipina (To The Philippine Youth)

 El Canto Del Viajero
 Briayle Crismarl
 Canto de María Clara
 Himno Al Trabajo (Dalit sa Paggawa)
 Felicitación
 Kundiman (Tagalog)
 Me Piden Versos
 Mi primera inspiracion
 Mi Retiro
 Mi Ultimo Adiós
 Por La Educación (Recibe Lustre La Patria)
 Sa Sanggol na si Jesus
 A Mi Musa (To My Muse)
 Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo
 A Man in Dapitan
Plays

 El Consejo de los Dioses (The council of Gods)

 Junto Al Pasig (Along the Pasig)[54]:381
 San Euistaquio, Mártyr (Saint Eustache, the martyr)[55]
Other works
Rizal also tried his hand at painting and sculpture. His most famous sculptural
work was "The Triumph of Science over Death", a clay sculpture of a naked
young woman with overflowing hair, standing on a skull while bearing a torch
held high. The woman symbolized the ignorance of humankind during the Dark
Ages, while the torch she bore symbolized the enlightenment science brings over
the whole world. He sent the sculpture as a gift to his dear friend Ferdinand
Blumentritt, together with another one named "The Triumph of Death over Life".
The woman is shown trampling the skull, a symbol of death, to signify the victory
the humankind achieved by conquering the bane of death through their scientific
advancements. The original sculpture is now displayed at the Rizal Shrine
Museum at Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila. A large replica, made of
concrete, stands in front of Fernando Calderón Hall, the building which houses
the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines Manila along Pedro
Gil Street in Ermita, Manila.

Edgar Calabia Samar

Published works[edit]
Books[edit]

 "Si Janus Sílang at ang Tiyanak ng Tábon" (Adarna House, 2014)

 "Eight Muses of the Fall" (Anvil Publishing, 2013)
 "Halos Isang Búhay: Ang Manananggal sa Pagsusulat ng Nobela" (UST
Publishing House, 2012)
 "Sa Kasunod ng 909" (UST Publishing House, 2012)
 Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog (Anvil Publishing, 2009)
 Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay (ADMU Office of Research and
Publications, 2006)
 Isa na Namang Pagtingala sa Buwan (National Commission for Culture and
the Arts, 2005)
 Uuwi na ang Nanay Kong si Darna! (Adarna House, 2002)
Poetry[edit]

 "Kuwentong-Bayan"[dead link] in Literatura 8: Tha Palanca 2004 Issue

 "Walang Diwata ng Apoy" in Literatura 8: The Palanca 2004 Issue
 "2000" in High Chair Issue # 5 (July–December 2005)
 "Gnosis" in Tinig Volume 35
Essay[edit]

 "Si Big Brother, Si Boy Bastos, at ang Pagsasalba ng Katawan sa Textong

Popular Ayon Kay Antonio Pigafetta" in Malay 20, No. 1 (2007)
 "Paghawak sa Panahon: Ang Salaysay Bilang Talinghaga sa Tula" in Loyola
Schools Review 6 (2007)

Gregorio F. Zaide
Major works[edit]
Zaide was a prolific writer and historian writing about 67 books, which were
adopted as textbooks for high schools and colleges.[8] He also authored more
than 500 articles in history published in both national and international
newspapers and academic journals.
Among his contributions to Philippine history are the following books:[9]

 A Documentary History of the Katipunan

 History of the Katipunan
 Philippine Political and Cultural History
 Great Events in Philippine History
 History of the Filipino People
 History of Asian Nations
 Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings
 The Philippine Revolution
 Riquezas Filipinas en los Archivos de Mexico (Titled in Spanish language)
 Great Filipinos in History
 The Pageant of Philippine History.
 World History

Salvador Barros
Salvador Rico Barros (February 21, 1910 – May 24, 1940) was a Filipino poet
and fictionist. He used the pen name Rodavlas. Barros wrote about 50 poems
and 40 short stories in his lifetime. He won a gold medal award for best author in
1937. He died in 1940.[1]

Published works[edit]
 Sampung Tula (Ten Poems)[2]
 Mga Tinig ng Puso (Sonnets, Voices from the Heart) [3]

Horacio de la Costa
De la Costa was the author of a number of books, particularly on Philippine
culture and history, which revealed his nationalistic bent, among which are:

 The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581–1768

 The Trial of Dr. Rizal, an edited translation of W.E. Retana’s transcription of
the official Spanish documents
 Recent Oriental History
 Readings in Philippines History
 The Background of Nationalism, and Other Essays
 Asia and the Philippines

Paz Márquez-Benítez
Although she only had one more published short story after "Dead Stars" entitled
"A Night in the Hills," she made her mark in Philippine literature because the
former is considered the first modern Philippine short story.
For Marquez-Benitez, writing was a lifelong occupation. In 1919, she founded
"Woman's Home Journal," the first women's magazine in the country. Also in the
same year, she and other six women who were prominent members of Manila's
social elites, namely, Clara Aragon, Concepcion Aragon, Francisca Tirona
Benitez, Carolina Ocampo Palma, Mercedes Rivera and Socorro Marquez
Zaballero, founded the Philippine Women's College now Philippine Women's
University. "Filipino Love Stories," reportedly the first anthology of Philippine
stories in English by Filipinos, was compiled in 1928 by Marquez-Benitez from
the works of her students.
Orlando Nadres
His Works[edit]
Films[edit]

 Stardom (1970)
 Happy Hippie Holiday (1971)
 Villa Miranda (1972)
 Till Death Do Us Part (1973)
 Ang Tatay kong Nanay (1978)
 Immortal (1989)
 Bakit Kay Tagal ng Sandali (1992)
 Una kang Naging Akin (1991)
Movie Appearances[edit]

 Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (1974)

 Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag (1977)
 Tahan na Empoy Tahan Na (1977)
Films Directed[edit]

 Nora, Mahal Kita (1972)

 Lupang Hinirang (1973)
 Pahiram ng Pag-ibig (1975)
 Malamig Miinit ang Magdamag (1976)
 Gisingin mo ang Umaga (1976)
For Television[edit]

 Balintataw (1970–72)
 Hilda (1972)
 Babae (1974)
 Atin ang Daigdig (1974)
 Tanghalan (1975)
 Lino Brocka Presents (1977)
 Flordeluna (1979)
Teleplay Appearances[edit]

 Mang Nano (1975)

 Alindog (1977)
Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin
Published works[edit]
Biography[edit]

 Angono, Rizal 4 : Sa Mata ng mga Iskolar ng Bayan (In the Eyes of Nation's

Scholars)
 Angono, Rizal 5 : Persona at Pamumuhay (Persons and Living)
History[edit]

 Angono, Rizal 3 : Mga Talang Wika at Pangkasaysayan (Language and

Historical Writings)
Literature[edit]

 Paano Nagsusulat ang Isang Ina? (How a Mother Write a Poem?)—

1981 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Third Place
 Turning Back and Moving Back— 1980 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature Third Place
 Persona (Person)
 Sagradong Abo (Sacred Ashes)

Jose Antonio Vargas

Journalism[edit]
Work for The Washington Post[edit]
In 2004, immediately after graduation from San Francisco State, he was hired by
the Style section of The Washington Post to cover the video game boom.[7] He
became known for his anecdotal coverage of the HIV epidemic in Washington.
[11]
 His coverage was adapted into a 2010 documentary entitled, The Other City.
[7]
 In 2007, he was part of the Washington Post team covering the shootings at
Virginia Tech, whose work earned a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. [2]
When Vargas made a pitch for an assignment as a politics reporter for the Post,
he told his editor, "You need someone to cover the presidential campaign who
has a Facebookaccount and who looks at YouTube every day." Vargas went on
to cover the 2008 presidential campaign,[11] including a front-page article in 2007
about Wikipedia's impact on the 2008 election.[12]
He also wrote an online column entitled "The Clickocracy" on the Post's website.
[13]

Pulitzer Prize[edit]
Vargas authored or contributed to three Washington Post articles about
the Virginia Tech shootings that were awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for
Breaking News Reporting.[2]
In "Students Make Connections at a Time of Total Disconnect" on April 17, 2007,
Vargas reported on the role of technology in student experiences during the
Virginia Tech shootings.[14] He described graduate student Jamal Albarghouti
running toward the gunshots when he heard them, taking out his cell phone to
take a shaky, one-minute video that later was aired on CNN.com. "This is what
this YouTube-Facebook-instant messaging generation does," Vargas wrote.
"Witness. Record. Share." The article also discussed the role of Facebook, which
students used to keep in touch during the event. Albarghouti returned to his
apartment to find 279 new Facebook messages, Vargas recounted, and another
student, Trey Perkins, faced a similar inundation.
Vargas contributed to the article "'Pop, Pop, Pop': Students Down, Doors Barred,
Leaps to Safety," which was published on April 17, 2007.[15] Through interviews
with eyewitnesses, the story recounted the events of the Virginia Tech shootings.
He also contributed to the article "That Was the Desk I Chose to Die Under,"
which ran in The Washington Post on April 19, 2007.[16] Vargas gained an
interview with an eyewitness to the shootings by approaching him through
Facebook, he explained to GMA News. "I got him on the phone, we talked for
about 25 minutes, and he was the only eyewitness we had on the story, so it was
a critical part of it," Vargas explained.[6]
Work for The Huffington Post[edit]
In July 2009, Vargas left the Post to join The Huffington Post, part of an exodus
of young talent from the paper.[17] Arianna Huffington introduced herself to Vargas
at a Washington Press Club Foundation dinner after overhearing someone
mistake him for a busboy.
Vargas joined Huffington Post as technology and innovations editor, where he
then created a "Technology as Anthropology" blog and launched the Technology
vertical in September 2009 and the College vertical in February 2010.[18]
Other work[edit]
Vargas's articles on the AIDS epidemic in Washington, D.C., inspired a feature-
length documentary, The Other City, which he co-produced and wrote. Directed
by Susan Koch and co-produced by Sheila Johnson, the documentary premiered
at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival[19] and aired on Showtime.[20]
In September 2010, Vargas profiled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in an
article for The New Yorker.[21][22]
In February 2015, Vargas launched a venture called #EmergingUS that will use
video and commentary to explore race and the "evolving American identity."[23]
In July 2015, Vargas directed and starred in a new documentary, White People,
about the concept of white privilege.[24] The film debuted on MTV.[24]

Awards and Recognitions[edit]

In 2015, Vargas was named one of Out Magazine's "Out100", which celebrates
100 compelling people who have had a hand in moving forward LGBTQ rights. [25]
In 2016, Vargas received the José Esteban Muñoz award from CLAGS: The
Center for LGBTQ Studies which is an award given to an individual who for
promotes Queer Studies in their work or activism.[26]
In 2017, Vargas received an honorary doctorate degree from John Jay College of
Criminal Justice.[2