SAN MIGUEL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

San Miguel, Leyte

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

S.Y. 2020-2021

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS IN 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

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LESSON REPRESENTATIVE TEXTS AND AUTHORS FROM ASIA, NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE,
1 LATIN AMERICA, AND AFRICA
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Learning Competency: Identify representative texts and authors from Asia, North America, Europe, Latin America, and Africa,
EN12Lit-IIa-22.

SOME NOTABLE WRITERS IN ASIA

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. He studied
law at the University of London and later worked as lawyer in one of

Kuala Lumpur’s most reputable law firms; in 2016, he was an International Writer-in-Residence at
Nanyang

Technological University in Singapore. Tan's first novel, The Gift of Rain (2007), was longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech and
Serbian. The Garden of Evening Mists (2011), his second novel, won the Man Asian Literary Prize
and Walter Scott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a critically acclaimed Pakistani author, novelist and translator.
His novel "Between Clay and Dust" was shortlisted for The Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and
longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Farooqi's second novel "The Story of a
Widow" was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2011, and longlisted for the
2010 IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award.
His most recent children's fiction is the novel "Tik-Tik, The Master of Time" Pakistan's first English
language novel for children. His other works for children includes the picture book "The Cobbler's
Holiday or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes" and the collection "The Amazing Moustaches of
Mocchhander the Iron Man and Other Stories" which was shortlisted for the India ComicCon
award in the Best Publication for Children category.
He is also the author of the critically acclaimed translations of Urdu classics "The Adventures of
Amir Hamza" and the first book of a projected 24-volume magical fantasy epic "Hoshruba".

Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil (born 1959 in Kerala) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is best
known as a poet and is the author of four collections: These Errors Are Correct (Tranquebar,
2008), English (2004, Penguin India, Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004), Apocalypso (Ark, 1997)
and Gemini (Viking Penguin, 1992). His first novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), was
shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize 2013
 Kim Thúy
Kim Thúy arrived in Canada in 1979, at the age of ten. She has worked as a seamstress,
interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes
herself to writing.
Her debut novel Ru won the Governor General's Award for French language fiction at the 2010
Governor General's Awards. An English edition, translated by Sheila Fischman, was published
in 2012 and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Thúy spent her early childhood in Vietnam before fleeing with her parents as boat people and
settling in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil. She has degrees in law, linguistics and translation
from the Université de Montréal.

Nayomi Munaweera
Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, “Island of a Thousand Mirror” was long-listed for the Man
Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the Commonwealth
Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the Northern California Book Award. Publishers
Weekly wrote, Munaweeras lyrical debut novel is worthy of shelving alongside her countryman
Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience, Jhumpa
Lahiri. The New York Times Book review called the novel, incandescent.
Nayomi’s second novel, “What Lies Between Us” was released in February 2016 and had
received accolades as one of 2016s most anticipated books.

NORTH AMERICA

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two bestselling, award-winning novels, “Everything Is
Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, and a bestselling work of nonfiction,
“Eating Animals”. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of five novels: “At The
Water’s Edge”, “Ape House”, “Water for Elephants”, “Riding Lessons”, and “Flying Changes”.
Her works have been translated into forty-three languages, and have sold more than ten million
copies worldwide. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS was adapted into a major motion picture starring
Reese Witherspoon, Rob Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz in 2011.

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has numerous critically acclaimed novels to her credit. Some
of her best-selling titles are "Oryx and Crake" (2003), "The Handmaid's Tale" (1986), and "The
Blind Assassin" (2000). She is best known for her feminist and dystopian political themes, and her
prolific output of work spans multiple genres, including poetry, short stories, and essays. She
distinguishes her "speculative fiction" from science fiction because "science fiction has monsters
and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen."

EUROPE
Carmen Boullosa

Poet, playwright, and novelist, Carmen Boullosa’s thoughtful and eclectic works such as “Leaving
Tabasco” (2001), and “Texas: The Great Theft” (2014), have cemented the reputation of a writer
considered to be reaching the height of her powers. Weaving through a wide range of topics, and
eras, Boullosa’s imaginative power and craft have allowed her to jump from one project to
another, without being typecast or pigeon holed.

Valeria Luiselli

Award winning, translated into numerous languages, Luiselli’s playful, mesmeric novels, have
pushed the boundaries of distortion between the real and the imagined. Works such as “Faces In
The Crowd” (2012) and “The Story Of My Teeth” (2015) have seen her cast as one of the bright
lights of contemporary Mexican fiction, and her collection of non-fiction essays, “Sidewalks”
(2013), demonstrates the versatility and deft touch of an interesting new literary talent.
Ian McEwan

British writer Ian McEwan started winning literary awards with his first book, a collection of
short stories, "First Love, Last Rites" (1976) and never stopped. "Atonement" (2001), a family
drama focused on repentance, won several awards and was made into a movie directed by Joe
Wright (2007). "Saturday" (2005) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His work often
focuses on closely observed personal lives in a politically fraught world.
David Mitchell

English novelist is known for his frequent use of intricate and complex experimental structure in
his work. In his first novel, "Ghostwritten" (1999), he uses nine narrators to tell the story, and
2004's "Cloud Atlas" is a novel comprising six interconnected stories. Mitchell won the John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize for "Ghostwritten," was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for
"number9dream" (2001), and was on the Booker longlist for "The Bone Clocks" (2014).

Zadie Smith

Literary critic James Wood coined the term "hysterical realism" in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's
hugely successful debut novel, "White Teeth," which Smith agreed was a "painfully accurate term
for the sort of overblown, manic prose to be found in novels like my own 'White Teeth.'" The
British novelist and essayist's third novel, "On Beauty," was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and
won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her 2012 novel "NW" was shortlisted for the Ondaatje
Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her works often deal with race and the immigrant's
postcolonial experience.

Delphine de Vigan
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for
adults. Her breakthrough work was the book “No et moi” (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix
des Libraires (The Booksellers' Prize) in France in 2008.
In 2011, she published a novel “Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit” (Nothing holds back the night) that
deals with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel
brought her a set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac
bookstores) and the prix Renaudot des lycéens.

Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial
and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary
provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a
peddler, who writes vulgar sleazy literature to shock. His works though, particularly Atomised,
have received high praise from the French literary intelligentsia, with generally positive
international critical response. Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P.
Lovecraft, he brought out his first novel “Extension du domaine de la lute” in 1994. “Les
particules élémentaires” followed in 1998 and “Plateforme”, in 2001. After a disastrous publicity
tour for this book, which led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he went to
Ireland to write. He currently resides in France, where he has been described as
"France’s biggest literary export and, some say, greatest living writer". In 2010 he published “La
Carte et le Territoire” (published the same year in English as The Map and the Territory) which
won the prestigious Prix Goncourt; and, in 2015 , Submission.
LATIN AMERICA
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism"
tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has
written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of
women, weaving myth and realism together. Her bestknown works include the novels “The
House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts”. She has written over 20 books that have been
translated into more than 35 languages and sold more than 67 million copies.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927 to 2014) was a Colombian writer, associated with the Magical
Realism genre of narrative fiction and credited with reinvigorating Latin American writing. He
won the Nobel prize for literature in 1982, for a body of work that included novels such as "100
Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera."
 Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in
Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most
distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the
Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include
“The Storyteller”, “The Feast of the Goat”, “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, “Death in the
Andes”, “In Praise of the Stepmother”, “The Bad Girl”, “Conversation in the Cathedral”, “The
Way to Paradise”, and “The War of the End of the World”. He lives in London.
National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner.

Patricio Pron
Patricio Pron, born in 1975, is the author of seven novels and six story collections, and he also
works as a translator and critic. His fiction has appeared in Granta, Zoetrope: AllStory, and The
Paris Review, and he has received numerous prizes, including the Alfaguara Prize, the Juan Rulfo
Prize, the Premio Literario Jaén de Novela award, and the 2008 José Manuel Lara Foundation
Award for one of the five best works published in Spain that year. He was named one of the best
young Spanish-language novelists by
Granta in 2010. His latest novel, “My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain”, was recently
published in Vintage paperback.

Rodrigo Hasbún
Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian novelist living and working in Houston, Texas. In 2007, he was
selected by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine
for Bogotá39, and in 2010 he was named one of Grantas Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists.
He is the author of three novels, a volume of personal essays, and three collections of short stories,
two of which have been made into films. His work has appeared in Granta, McSweeneys,
Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Affections received an English PEN
Award and has been published in twelve languages.

AFRICA
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.
Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various
publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times,
and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels “Purple Hibiscus”, which won the Commonwealth
Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; “Half of a Yellow Sun”, which won the
Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times
Notable Book; and “Americanah”, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was
named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Ms. Adichie is also the author of
the story collection “The Thing Around Your Neck”.
Aminatta Forna
Born in Glasgow but raised in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna first drew attention for her memoir
“The Devil That Danced on Water” (2003), an extraordinarily brave account of her family’s
experiences living in war-torn Sierra Leone, and in particular her father’s tragic fate as a political
dissident. Forna has gone on to write several novels, each of them critically acclaimed: her work
“The Memory of Love” (2010) juxtaposes personal stories of love and loss within the wider
context of the devastation of the Sierre Leone civil war,and was nominated for the Orange Prize
for Fiction.

Nadine Gordimer
One of the apartheid era’s most prolific writers, Nadine Gordimer’s works powerfully explore
social, moral, and racial issues in a South Africa under apartheid rule. Despite winning a Nobel
Prize in Literature for her prodigious skills in portraying a society interwoven with racial
tensions, Gordimer’s most famous and controversial works were banned from South Africa for
daring to speak out against the oppressive governmental structures of the time. Her novel
“Burger’s Daughter” follows the struggles of a group of anti-apartheid activists, and was read in
secret by Nelson Mandela during his time on Robben Island.

Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in
Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the
University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton
University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is
the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary
Prize in 1999 for his first novel, “Blue-White-Red”, “The Prize of the Five Francophone
Continents for Broken Glass”, and the “Prix Renaudot” in 2006 for “Memoirs of a Porcupine”.
He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch
out for in the coming century. His most recent book is “African Psycho”.
Ben Okri
Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, Northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and
Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much
of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil
war in Nigeria.
In 1991 Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel “The Famished Road”
(1991). Set in a Nigerian village, this is the first in a trilogy of novels which tell the story of Azaro,
a spirit child. Azaro's narrative is continued in “Songs of Enchantment” (1993) and “Infinite
Riches” (1998). Other recent fiction includes “Astonishing the Gods” (1995) and “Dangerous
Love” (1996), which was awarded the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000. His latest novels are “In
Arcadia” (2002) and “Starbook” (2007).