The Filipino

Literacy Authors
of Region III
Amado Vera Hernandez
(1903-1970)
• Also known as Amante Hernani, Herminia dela Riva and Julio
Abril in his some works.
• He also called “Makata ng mga Manggagawa.”
• Was born on September 13, 1903 in Hagonoy, Bulacan but
grew up in Tondo, Manila.
• He is the son of Juan Hernandez and Clara Vera.
• He studied in Gagalangin, Tondo, the Manila High School and
the American Correspondence School where he finished a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
• He married sarswela actor and and kundiman queen
Honorata “Atang dela Rama which also became a member of
Orden ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining.
• He began his writing career as a journalist and later editor of
various pre-WWII Tagalog newspaper like Watawat,
Pagkakaisa, Makabayan, Sampaguita, and Mabuhay Extra.
• He joined the Akademya ng Wikang Tagalog and the Manila
Press Club.
• During WWII, he served as an intelligence officer for the
resistance and after the war. He was appointed and elected as
councilor of Manila in 1945 and 1947 where he sponsored
ordinances aimed at promoting worker’s right and freedom.
• He immersed himself in the labor movement in the late 1940’s
and early 1950’s.
• He represented the Newspaper Guild of the Philippine in the
country’s biggest and most militant labor federation, the
Congress of Labor Organization (CLO).
• During the second decade, he was a member and vis president
of Aklatang Bayan and later he joined Ilaw and Panitik.
• Because of pursuing the worker’s cause, he was imprisoned in
1951 for alleged subversive activities. He was released on
parole in 1956 and was finally acquitted of charges in 1964.
• He returned to journalistic practice, writing as a columnist for
Taliba from 1962 to 1967, serving as a editor of the radical
newspaper, Ang Masa, until his death 1970.
• He died at the age of 67 on March 24, 1970.
Literary Works
Novel
• Mga Ibong Mandaragit
• Luha Ng Buwaya
Poem
• Isang Dipang Langit
• Kung Tuyo Ang Luha Mo Aking Bayan
• Aking Bayan
• Bayang Malaya
• Sariling Hardin
• Pangkasalukuyan
Short Story
• Wala Ng Lunas
• Kulang Sa Dilig
• Langaw Sa Isang Basong Gatas
• Dalawang Metro Ng Lupang ‘Di Malipad Ng Uwak
Play
• Muntinglupa
• Hagdan sa Bahaghari
• Ang Mga Kagalang-galang
Essay
• Si Atang atang Dulaan
• Si Jose Corazon de Jesus at ang Ating
Panulaan
Gregorio C. Brillantes
• A native of Camiling, Tarlac
• He obtained his Litt. B. degree in the Ateneo de Manila
University
• A Palanca Award Hall of Famer and multi-awarded fiction
writer.
• One of the Philippines’ most popular writers in English
• He often writes about individuals under thirty, adolescent or
post adolescent ones who struggle with alienation from family,
society and from themselves.
 Literary Works

Short Story
• The Distance to Andromeda and Other Stories
• The Apollo Centennial
• Help
• On a Clear Day in November Shortly Before the Millenium
• Stories for a Quarter Century
• Faith Love Time and Dr. Lazaro
Essay
• Looking for Rizal in Madrid
• Chronicles of Interesting Times
• The Cardinal’s Sins, the General’s Cross
Rogelio R. Sicat
(1940-1997)
• Was born on June 26, 1940 in the town of San Isidro in the
province of Neuva Ecijia, as the sixth of eight children of
Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez.
• He is sometimes referred to as “Rogelio Sikat”. He uses
“Sikat” as a pen name to reflect on his Filipino identity.
• He was a prolific Filipino novelist, playwright and short story
writer.
• Sikat was also a distinguished educator. He was a former
university professor and former college dean of the University
of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters.
• Sikat went to Manila to study in the University of Santo
Tomas, one of the premier universities in the Philippines.
• Sikat served as a writer for the university official newspaper.
The Varsitarian
• Sikat also worked in the newspaper and magazine industry,
serving as a feature writer for the long-running Liwayway
magazine.
• Sikat continued his love for writing After finishing his
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.
• In 1997, the distinguished writer and educator Sikat died of
cancer. He receive several posthumous awards including the
Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Award for translation, a
year after his death.
Literary Works
Play
• Moses, Moses
• Impeng Negro
Novel
• Dugo sa Bukang-Liwayway
Short story
• Tata Selo
• Sa Lupa ng Sariling Bayan
Short Stories & Essays
• Pagsalunga: Piniling Kuwento at Sanaysay