GENERAL EDUCATION

1. He is the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize.

— Rabindranath Tagore

2. He is considered as the greatest English writer and also known as the “Bard of Avon”.

— William Shakespeare

3. He is known as the father of horror stories.

— Edgar Allan Poe

4. He is known as the Father of Essays.

— Francis Bacon

5. He is a Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and traditions.

— Nick Joaquin

6. He was the first Filipino National Artist for Literature awarded in 1973.

— Jose Garcia Villa

7. He is a Filipino migrant whose fiction stories reflect the Filipino’s concept of American culture.

— Bienvenido Santos

8. He is known as the greatest Indian writer of all time.”

— Kalidasa

9. He is called the “Morning Star” of English literature.

— Geoffrey Chaucer
10. He is the first man to replace myth with natural laws.

— Thales of Melitus

11. He is regarded as the greatest haiku poet.

— Matsuo Basho

12. He is recognized as the father of American literature.

— Washington Irving

13. He was the first mythical geographer who was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and
people encountered by his hero, Ulysses.

— Homer

14. He is a famous composer from Angono, Rizal, and was given a National Artist Award.

— Luis San Pedro

15. He is known as the master of “local color” because of his Pickwick Papers.

— Charles Dickens

16. He is a Philippine National Artist awardee for Literature, and used free verse and espoused the
dictum, "Art for art's sake“.

— Jose Garcia Villa

17. She wrote the most exquisite love poems of her time in “Sonnets from the Portuguese”.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

18. He is a Japanese poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968.

— Yasunari Kawabata
19. He is known as the Father of Tragedy.

— Christopher Marlowe

20. He is the first black Nigerian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986.

— Wole Soyinka