RENOWNED

FILIPINO
WRITERS
POETRY
Paolo Manalo
teaches at College of Art and Letters,
University of the Philippines

served as Literary Editor of Philippine

Free Press
 Paolo Manalo
A filipino poet, journalist, and graphic
designer

his works are known for its earthy,

playful and sometimes reckless nature,
able to capture the essence of the Filipino
Society .
Virgilio Almario
also known as Rio Alma (pen name)

poet, literary historian and critic, who has

revived and reinvented traditional
Filipino poetic forms, even as he
championed modernist poetics.
Danton Remoto
- Filipino writer, essayist, reporter, editor,
columnist, and professor.

- Chairman Emeritus of Ang Ladlad, a

lesbian, gay, bisexual, andvv transgender
(LGBT) political party in the Philippines.
FICTION
Jose Rizal
A Filipino nationalist, writer active at the
end of the Spanish Colonnial Period
Nick Joaqin
- Filipino writer and journalist best
known for his short stories and novels in
the English language.
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Carlos Bulosan
Filipino-Amerocan author, poet, and activist.
He is best remembered for his semi-fiction,
semi- autobiographical novel “ America in
the Heart”
Lualhati Bautista
A writer who became known or her
honest realism, courageous of Philippine
Women’s Issues, and compelling female
protagonists.
NON-FICTION
Juan Flavier
Former Senator, former Department of
Health secretary, and former chairman of the
Dangerous Drugs Board

Rembered for his compelling auto-

biographical works on his experiences as a
‘Doctor to the Barrios”
Maria Ressa
Filipino writer, journalist,

Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino and

American journalist. She is the co-
founder and CEO of Rappler. She
previously spent nearly two decades
working as a lead investigative reporter
in Southeast Asia for CNN.
J. Neil Garcia
Garcia is a poet and essayist. He is the
author of numerous poetry collections and
works in literary and cultural criticism,
including Our Lady of the Carnival (1996),
The Sorrows of Water (2000), Kaluluwa
(2001), Philippine Gay Culture: The Last
Thirty Years (1996), Slip/pages: Essays in
Philippine Gay Criticism (1998),
Rosa Henson
María Rosa Luna Henson or "Lola
Rosa" was the first Filipina who
made public in 1992 her story as a
comfort woman for the Imperial
Japanese Army during the Second
World War