21st CLPW

National Artist
(Para sa Panitikan)

Reiyah Ysabelle I. Inserto

Grade 11 STEM 3
 Francisco
Arcellana
One of the most prominent
fathers of the modern Filipino
short story in English is writer,
a poet, essayist, critic, journalist,
and teacher. He paved the way for
the short story's evolution as a lyrical
prose-poetic genre.
The pride of fiction, according to Arcellana, is "that it is able to convey
truth, that it is able to present reality." Arcellana was a pioneer in the
experimental fiction movement, and he was fearless in experimenting with
new literary genres to reflect the Filipino sensibility.
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1990 *Mga naiambag na panitikan:
Selected Stories (1963)
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: Poetry and Politics: The State of
Tondo Intermediate School Original Writing in English in the
Manila West School Philippines Today (1979)
UP, Bachelor of Science & Philosophy The Francisco Arcellana Sampler
(1991).
*Mga natamong karangalan: The Man who would be Poe
Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Death in a Factory
Literature Lina
Jose Garcia Villa's Honor Roll Joya
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan The Mats
award etc.
etc.
 Virgilio S.
Almario

Rio Alma (Virgilio S. Almario) is a

poet, literary historian, and critic
who has restored and reinterpreted
old Filipino poetic forms while
championing modernist poetics. He has
produced 12 collections of poetry in 34 years,
including the classics Makinasyon and
Peregrinasyon, as well as the groundbreaking
trilogy Doktrinang Anakpawis, Mga Retrato at
Rekwerdo, and Muli, Sa Kandungan ng Lupa.
In his often harsh assessment of the self and society, his poetic voice ascended from
the lyrical to the satirical to the epic, from the dramatic to the incantatory, in these
works. In his ten works of critique and anthologies, he has also revolutionized how
Filipino poetry is perceived and cleared the ground for debate of the subject.

*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 2003 *Mga naiambag na panitikan:

Palipad-Hangin. (1985)
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: Katon Para sa Limang Pandama.
University of the Philippines Diliman Sentimental. (2004)
(A.B Political Science) (Master of Arts in
Estremelenggoles. (2004)
Filipino)
University of the East Memo Mulang Gimokudan. (2005)
Dust Devils. (2005)
Mga natamong karangalan: Sonetos Postumos (2006)
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Tatlong Pasyon sa Ating
Essay in Filipino
Panahon(2006)
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Poetry in Filipino
Buwan, Buwang, Bulawan. (2009)
Manila Critics Circle UP Diksyunaryong Filipino
SE Asia Write Award for Bankok Kulo at Kolorum
Gawad Patnubay ng Sining of Manila Baklang Kolorum
etc. etc
 Cirilo F.
Bautista
is an extraordinary poet, fictionist,
and essayist who has made
important contributions to the
development of the country's
creative arts. He is widely regarded as
the most important writer of his
generation by colleagues, critics, and the
general public.
As a literature instructor, Bautista recognized the importance of the classroom in the
development of Filipino writers. He was influential in the founding of the Bienvenido
Santos Creative Writing Center at De La Salle University. He also inspired the
establishment of the Philippine Literary Arts Council in 1981, the Iligan National
Writers Workshop in 1993, and the Baguio Writers Group in 1994.

As a writer, Bautista contributed to the development of Philippine literature through

his substantial body of work; as a teacher, through his discovery and encouragement
of young writers in workshops and lectures; and as a critic, through his essays that
provided insights into the craft of writing and corrected misconceptions about art.
 Cirilo F.
Bautista
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist:
2014

*Maikling kasaysayan ng
edukasyon:
Legarda Elementary School
Victorino Mapa High School
University of Santo Tomas, AB
literature Mga naiambag na panitikan:
St. Louis University, MA literature Summer suns (with Albert Casuga,
De La Salle University, Manila 1963)
University of Iowa The Cave and Other Poems (1968)
The Archipelago (1970)
Mga natamong karangalan: Charts (1973)
Hall of Fame of the Palanca Telex (1981)
Awards Foundation for Sugat ng Salita (1985)
achievements in the field of Stories (1990)
literature Galaw ng Asoge (2004)
Diwa ng Lahi, Gawad Antonio Breaking Signs (1990)
Villegas at Patnubay ng Sining at Words And Battlefields: A Theoria On
Kalinangan in the field of The Poem (1998)
literature, Manila The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus (2001)
Gawad Balagtas Galaw ng Asoge (2003)
Most Outstanding Achievement etc.
Award in Literature by the
Philets-Artlets Centennial Alumni
Association of the UST
etc
 N. V. M.
Gonzalez

Gonzalez,
Nestor Vicente Madali
often known as N.V.M. Gonzalez, was
a fiction writer, essayist, poet, and
teacher who captured the Filipino
spirit in both rural and urban settings. He
won the First Commonwealth Literary
Contest in 1940, the Republic Cultural
Heritage Award in 1960, and the Gawad
CCP Para sa Sining in 1990, among many other honors. The prizes recognize his
success in using the English language to communicate, reflect, and create Philippine
culture and sensibility. He joined the University of Pennsylvania's Board of Advisers
as an International Writer-in-Residence. Center for Creative Writing In 1987, U.P.
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was bestowed upon him by the university.

*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1997 *Mga naiambag na panitikan:

The Winds of April,
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon:
Mindoro High School Seven Hills Away,
Natl. University Manila Children of the Ash-Covered Loam
Stanford University and Other Stories,
UP, Degree of Doctors of Humane Letters, The Bamboo Dancers,
honoris causa
Look Stranger,
Mga natamong karangalan:
on this Island Now,
Philippines Centennial Award for Literature, Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty -One
1998 Stories,
National Artist Award for Literature The Bread of Salt and Other Stories,
The Asian Catholic Publishers Award, 1993 Work on the Mountain,
The Filipino Community of California
The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays
Proclamation
Writers Union of the Philippines award, 1968-1994,
Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtás, 1989 A Grammar of Dreams and Other
etc. Stories
 Amado V.
Hernández
In his opinion, the job of the writer is
to act as the conscience of society
and to assert the greatness of the
human spirit in the face of unfairness and
oppression. He is a poet, playwright, and
novelist who is one of the Filipino writers
who performed "committed art." Hernandez
made a significant contribution to the development of Tagalog prose by stripping
Tagalog of its ornate nature and writing in a more colloquial language than the
"official" style allowed. Mga Ibong Mandaragit, the first Filipino socio-political novel,
was written while Hernandez was in prison and exposes the faults of society as seen
in the agrarian crises of the 1950s.

*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1973 *Mga naiambag na panitikan:

Bayang Malaya
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon:
Isang Dipang Langit,
Manila High School
American Correspondence School Luha ng Buwaya,
University of the Philippines Diliman, Degree Amado V. Hernandez: Tudla at
of Doctor of Humanities honoris causa Tudling: Katipunan ng mga
Nalathalang Tula 1921-1970,
Mga natamong karangalan:
Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas at Iba
Commonwealth Literary Contest (1938)
Palanca Awards (1958), (1959)
Pang Kuwento ni Amado V. Hernandez
Republic Culture Heritage Award (1962) Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol at
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan ng Maynila Iba Pang Akda ni Amado V.
(1964) Hernandez.
Tanglaw ng Lahi ng Ateneo de Manila
University (1970)
 Nick
Joaquín
well-known Filipino
writer in English,
Many consider him to be the most

having written on so many different

parts of the Filipino culture. Nick Joaquin
has also improved the English language,
with reviewers coining the term
"Joaquinesque" to designate his baroque
Spanish-flavored English or his Filipinism-based reinventions of English. Apart from
his linguistic skills, Bienvenido Lumbera claims that Nick Joaquin's importance in
Philippine literature stems from his exploration of the Philippines' colonial past
under Spanish rule, as well as his probing into the psychology of social change as
seen by the young, as seen in stories like Doa Jeronima, Candido's Apocalypse, and
The Order of Melchizedek.
*Mga naiambag na panitikan:
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1976
The Woman Who Had Two Navels
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon:
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino,
Paco Elementary School Manila,
Mapa High School My Manila: A History for the
Young,
*Mga natamong karangalan The Ballad of the Five Battles,
José Garcia Villa's Honor Roll (1940)
Rizal in Saga,
TOYM Awardee for Literature (1955)
Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards Almanac for Manileños,
Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1961) Cave and Shadows.
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award
National Artist Award (1976).
S.E.A. Write Award (1980)
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature (1996)
Tanglaw ng Lahi Award (1997)
etc.
 F. Sioníl
José
F. Sionil Jose's writings from the late
1960s can best be regarded as epic
in scope. Its sheer size places him in
the forefront of Philippine English-language
writing. But, in the end, it is his unwavering
support for Filipino aspirations–for national
sovereignty and social justice–that ensures
the worth of his work.
He portrays the sweep of Philippine history while concurrently describing the lives
of generations of the Samsons whose personal lives interweave with the nation's
social conflicts in the Rosales saga, which consists of The Pretenders, Tree, My
Brother, My Executioner, Mass, and Po-on. His writings, especially his many short
stories, have been published and translated into many languages due to their
universal appeal.
*Mga naiambag na panitikan:
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 2001
Po-on
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon:
The Pretenders
Far Eastern University My Brother, My Executioner
dropped out of University of Santo Tomas Mass
Tree
Mga natamong karangalan: Don Vicente
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for “The God
The Samsons
Stealer”, “Waywaya”, “Arbol de Fuego”, “Tree”,
and “A Scenario for Philippine Resistance,”. Gagamba
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Viajero
Literature, and Creative Communication Arts in Ben Singkol
1980 Three Filipino Women
the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
Two Filipino Women
Centennial Honors for the Arts in 1999.
etc.
etc.

 Bienvenido
Lumbera

As a poet, he brought what is now

known as Bagay poetry to Tagalog
literature, a significant aesthetic
trend that has influenced the vernacular
poetic tradition.

*Mga naiambag na panitikan:

*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 2006 Likhang Dila,
Likhang Diwa (poems in Filipino
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon:
University of Santo Tomas, Manila
and English),
Indiana University, Master's Degree in 1993; Balaybay,
comparative literature Mga Tulang Lunot at Manibalang,
2002; Sa Sariling Bayan,
Apat na Dulang May Musika,
Mga natamong karangalan:
2004; “Agunyas sa Hacienda
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism,
Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, Luisita,”
1993 Pakikiramay,
Pambansang Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni 2004.
Balagtas, (UMPIL) Tagalog Poetry,
National Book Awards from the Manila Critics'
1570-1898: Tradition and
Circle
Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature
Influences in its Development;
Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for Drama Philippine Literature: A History
Cultural Center of the Philippines Centennial and Anthology,
Honors for the Arts Revaluation: Essays on Philippine
etc. Literature,
Writing the Nation/Pag-akda ng
Bansa.
 Resil
Mojares
Resil Mojares is a key figure in the
development of regional literature
and history as a teacher and scholar,
essayist and fictionist, and cultural and
literary historian. He pioneered Cebuano
and national identity creation as the
founding director of the Cebuano Studies
Center, an important academic organization that put Cebu on the study and
documentation map. He was active in various organizations as a significant figure in
cultural and literary history. Mojares has published in a wide range of disciplines for
over 50 years in various genres (fiction, essay, journalism, scholarly articles, and
books) (literature, history, biography, cultural studies, and others).

*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 2014 *Mga naiambag na panitikan:

Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: Generic Study of the Novel Until 1940
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: The Man Who Would Be President:
University of San Carlos, Bachelor's Degree in Serging Osmeña and Philippine Politics
English, Master's Degree in Literature Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on
University of the Philippines Diliman Philippine Cultural History
Theater in Society, Society in Theater:
Mga natamong karangalan: Social History of a Cebuano Village,
Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Award 1840-1940
Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi Award, Ateneo de Manila The War Against the Americans:
University Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu,
Fok Ying Tung South East Asia Prize 1899-1906
Grant Goodman Prize for History House of Memory: Essays
Centennial Award for Cultural Research Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H.
etc. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes
and the Production of Modern
Knowledge
Isabelo’s Archive
 Alejándro
R. Roces
is a short story writer and essayist
widely regarded as the best comic
short story writer in the country. He is
well known for his extensively anthologized
"My Brother's Peculiar Chicken," and his countless
newspaper editorials have always concentrated
on the Filipino cultural heritage's overlooked
features. His work has been featured in a number
of international publications and has won national and international accolades.He helped to
popularize various local fiestas, including Moriones and Ati-atihan. He personally led the effort to
shift the country's Independence Day from July 4 to June 12, as well as the conversion of the
country's stamps, coinage, and passports from English to Filipino, and the recovery of Jose Rizal's
manuscripts stolen from the National Archives.

*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 2003 *Mga naiambag na panitikan:

We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: My Brother's Peculiar Chicken
Ateneo De Manila University Of Cocks and Kites
Arizona State University Fiesta
Far Eastern University Something to Crow about
Toyo University etc
Baguio's St. Louis' University

Mga natamong karangalan:

Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award
Diwa ng Lahi Award
Tanging Parangal of the Gawad CCP Para sa
Sining
Rizal Pro Patria Award
etc.
 Carlos P.
Rómulo
At 16, he was a reporter, at 20, he was
a newspaper editor, and by 32, he was a
publisher. For a series of articles
anticipating the onset of World War I, he was
the only Asian to win America's prestigious
Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

His other publications include Forty Years: A

Third World Soldier at the UN, a memoir of his many years working for the United Nations,
and The Philippine Presidents, an oral history of his experiences serving all of the
Philippine presidents.
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1982

*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon:

University of Manila *Mga naiambag na panitikan:
Columbia University I Saw the Fall of the Philippines.
Notre Dame University My Brother Americans
Georgetown University I See The Philippines Rise
Harvard University I am a Filipino
The United
Mga natamong karangalan: Crusade in Asia (The John Day Company,
Nobel Peace Prize nomination (1952) 1955; about the 1953 presidential
United States Presidential Medal of Freedom election campaign of Ramón Magsaysay)
(1984) The Meaning of Bandung
Philippine Gold Cross etc.
Presidential Unit Citation with Two Oak Leaf
Clusters
Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix from the
Greek Government
Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Manuel do
Cespedes from the Republic of Cuba
Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence, 1942
etc.
 Edith L.
Tiempo

Edith L. Tiempo is a poet, fictionist, teacher,

and literary critic who is considered one of
the best Filipino authors in English. Her
work is distinguished by an extraordinary
fusion of style and substance, of skill and
intelligence. Her poems, "The Little Marmoset" and
"Bonsai," both widely anthologized, are intricate
verbal transfigurations of major experiences, as
demonstrated in two of her widely anthologized
pieces. Tiempo is a morally profound fictionist. Her style has been described as "descriptive but
devoid of meticulous detail," and she represents an important tradition in Philippine English
writing. She organized and supervised the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City
with her late husband, Edilberto K. Tiempo, which has produced some of the country's top writers.

*Mga naiambag na panitikan:

*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1999 A Blade of Fern (1978)
His Native Coast (1979)
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: The Alien Corn (1992)
Siliman University One, Tilting Leaves (1995)
Universit;y of Iowa The Builder (2004)
University of the Philippines The Jumong (2006)
Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories
Mga natamong karangalan: The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems
National Artist Award for Literature (1999) (1966)
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature The Charmer's Box and Other Poet
Cultural Center of the Philippines (1979, First Marginal Annotations and Other Poems
Prize in Novel) etc.
Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (1988)
José García
Villa
Regardless of race or language, he is
regarded as one of the best modern poets.
Villa, who lived in Singalong, Manila,
popularized the reversed consonance rime
scheme, which included comma poetry that were
unique and artistic in their use of the punctuation
mark. When his debut poem, "Have Come, Am
Here," was published in New York in 1942, it won
critical acclaim, and he was quickly showered
with prizes and fellowships: Guggenheim, Bollingen, and the American Academy of Arts and
Letters Awards.
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1973
*Mga naiambag na panitikan:
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: Philippine Short Stories: Best 25 Short
UP Integrated School Stories of 1928 (1929)
UP, Pre-Law - Pre-Med Footnote to Youth: Tales of the
University of New Mexico Philippines and Others (1933)
Columbia University Many Voices
Far Eastern University, Poems by Doveglion (1941)
Have Come, Am Here (1942)
Mga natamong karangalan: Poems in praise of love : the best love
Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing poems of Jose Garcia Villa (1973)
Academy Award for Literature (1943) Charlie Chan Is Dead (1993)
First prize in the Poetry Category of UP Golden
Jubilee Literary Contests (1958)
Pro Patria Award for literature (1961)
Heritage Award for poetry and short stories
(1962)
 Lázaro
Francisco
Lazaro A. Francisco, a prize winning writer,
established the social realist tradition in
Philippine fiction. His eleven works, which
are now considered Philippine classics,
exemplify the author's commitment to nationalism.
Francisco rose to fame as a writer thanks to his
"masterful use of the Tagalog language" and
"supple prose style," as well as his social
consciousness. He contributed to the richness of
the Filipino language and literature with his literary production in Tagalog, for which he is a
strong advocate. In 1958, he established the Kapatiran ng mga Alagad ng Wikang Pilipino
(KAWIKA) to further his support for Tagalog as a national language.

*Mga naiambag na panitikan:

Binhi at Bunga (Seed and Fruit), 1925
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 2009 Cesar, 1926
Ama (Father), 1929
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: Bayang Nagpatiwakal
He was not able to finish school at Central Luzon Sa Paanan ng Krus (At the Cross' Foot),
Agricultural Collage because of poverty 1934
Deo, 1927
Mga natamong karangalan: Ang Beterano (The Veteran), 1931
Balagtas Award Ang Idolo (The Idol), 1932
The Republic Cultural Heritage Award Ang Pagtitika (Persistence), 1932
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, Manila Ang Pamana ng Pulubi (Beggar's
etc. Heritage), 1935
Bago Lumubog ang Araw (Before the Sun
Sets), 1936
Singsing na Pangkasal (Wedding Ring),
1939-1940
etc.
 Carlos
Quirino
A biographer, he is well known for writing
The Great Malayan, one of the first
biographies of Jose Rizal. Quirino's books
and essays cover a wide range of topics in
Philippine history and culture, including everything
from Bonifacio's trial to Aguinaldo's biography,
Philippine mapping to culinary arts, cash crops to
tycoons and presidents' lives, and so on. President
Clinton was elected in 1997. Quirino was the first
recipient of Fidel Ramos' new category for historical literature in the National Artist Awards. He
set a record early in his career when he became the United Press Institute's first Filipino
correspondent.

*Mga naiambag na panitikan:

Man of Destiny (1935)
*Petsa ng pagiging Nat'l Artist: 1997 The Great Malayan (1940)
Magsaysay and the Philippines (1958)
*Maikling kasaysayan ng edukasyon: Philippine Cartography (1959)
De La Salle University Damian Domingo: First Eminent Filipino
University of Wisconsin at Madison Painter (1961)
Bar exams passer History of the Philippine Sugar Industry
(1974)
Mga natamong karangalan: Filipinos at War (1981)
a natamong karangalan: Amang, the Life and Times of Eulogio
Member of the Philippine National Artists' lineup Rodriguez, Sr. (1983)
Republic Cultural Heritage Award etc
 The Flowers of May
Francisco Arcellana
"The Flowers of May" is practically a Filipino adaptation of James Joyce's "The Dead." Many
Filipinos in 1951 had no memories of snow-covered countryside, but they did remember the
magnificent blossoms of May, May in the churches of Manila, and May in the old walled city. The
narrator recalls his sister Victoria's death in May, as well as his father's profound grief and his
mother's perhaps useless attempt to console him. He mentions several members of his family who
have died. The plot is well-crafted, but the worries are universal.

The month of May is the center of this short narrative. Coping with sadness with the loss of a
loved one. Victoria, Pepeng's daughter and the sister of the narrator, died in May. This narrative
describes a celebration in which young girls dress in white with blue girdles during the month of
May. This group of young girls would sing and throw flowers down the isle until it was completely
covered. The Blessed Virgin Mother is supposed to thread the route. May of last year was
Victoria's final May. It was also her last time taking part in the floral rites. She has been a singing
flower girl since she was six years old. Victoria's mother attempted to express and comprehend
her husband's sorrow. However, she was unaware of the intensity of her husband's concealed
emotion. She tried but failed to empathize with him.

His father's first real loss is Victoria. Pepeng's anguish is unbearable and profound. So this is the
end. So that's what it's like to die. And for the first time since Victoria died and was buried, they
finally come to terms with the fact that Victoria is dead—really and truly dead.

The celebration that the story is talking about is probably Flores de Mayo. A big celebration is
held in the month of May, one of the Philippines' reportedly 42,000 festivities. This is the Flores
de Mayo (Spanish for May Flowers), a month-long celebration dedicated to the Blessed Virgin
Mary. This is when the story happened. The story was first perplexing to me, possibly due to the
way he worded it. Though this structure helped it to stand out for me.

Finally, this narrative showed us that no matter how much you value your life, it can still be taken
away from you. I can tell how much effort the author put into this when reading it. The father's
emotion, his anguish, was oozing through the story's words and letters. I'd definitely start reading
his other stories as well.