CANONICAL AUTHORS & THE WORKS

OF PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ARTISTS IN

 
LITERATURE
CANON ( in literature )

• It is the collection of works considered representative

of a certain genre and period.
Criteria for being a National Artist
 
1. Living artist who are Filipino citizens at the time of nomination, and died after the establishment of the
award in 1972 but were Filipino citizens at the time of their death;
2. Artist who through the consent and form of their works, have contributed in building a Filipino sense of
nationhood;
3. Artist who have pioneered in a mode of creative expression or style, thus earning distinction and making an
impact on succeeding generations of artists;
4. Artists who have created a substantial and significant body of work or consistently displayed excellence in the
practice of their art form thus enriching artistic expression or style, and;
5. Artists who enjoy broad acceptance through:
 Prestigious national and/or international recognition, such as the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, CCP Thirteen
Artist Award, and NCCA Alab ng Haraya;
 Critical acclaim and reviews of their works; and
 Respect and esteem from their peers.
List of Philippine National
Artists in Literature
Amado V. Hernandez (1973)

Famous works: Bayang Malaya, Isang

Dipang Langit, Luha ng Buwaya
 •Jose Garcia-Villa (1973)

Famous work: The Anchored Angel,

The Emperor's New Sonnet,
Footnote to Youth
 Nick Joaquin (1976)

Famous works: May Day Eve (1947) Prose and Poems

(1952) The House On Zapote Street (1960) The Woman Who
had Two Navels (1961) La Naval de Manila and Other Essays
(1964) A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966)
Tropical Gothic (1972) A Question of Heroes (1977)
 Carlos P. Romulo (1982)

Famous works: The United (novel), I Walked with

Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines,
Mother America, I See the Philippines Rise (war-time
memoirs)
 Francisco Arcellana (1990)

Famous works: Selected Stories (1963), Poetry and

Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the
Philippines Today (1979), The Francisco Arcellana
Sampler (1991)
 N.V.M. Gonzales (1997)

Famous works: Short fiction. "The Tomato Game".1992. A Grammar of

Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997. The Bread
of Salt and Other Stories. Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Selected
Stories. Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Children of the Ash-Covered Loam
and Other Stories
 Levi Celerio (1997)

Famous work: Pasko na Naman

 Edith L. Tiempo (1999)

Famous works: novel A Blade of Fern (1978), The Native Coast

(1979), and The Alien Corn (1992); the poetry collections, The
Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966), and The Charmer's Box
and Other Poems(1993); and the short story collection Abide, Joshua,
and Other Stories (1964)
 F. Sionil Jose (2001)

Famous work: The "Rosales Saga" Novels (1962–1984)

 Virgilio Almario (2003)

Famous works: Makinasyon and Peregrinasyon, and the landmark

trilogy Doktrinang Anakpawis, Mga Retrato at
Rekwerdo and Muli, Sa Kandungan ng Lupa