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    This document summarizes information about several prominent Filipino authors from the contemporary era, including Francisco Balagtas, Francisco Arcellana, Lualhati Bautista, Carlos Bulosan, and Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. It provides biographical details and highlights major works for each author, such as Balagtas' Florante at Laura, Arcellana's Through a Glass, Darkly, Bautista's Bata, Bata... Paano ka ginawa?, Bulosan's America is in the Heart, and Brainard's Cecilia's Diary.

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    Contemporary Era

    • History
    • Filipino Authors
    Contemporary History
    Contemporary history, in English-language historiography,
    is a subset of modern history which describes the historical
    period from approximately 1945 to the present. The term
    "contemporary history" has been in use at least since the
    early 19th century.
    Francisco Balagtas
    • Francisco Baltazar y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 –
    February 20, 1862)
    • A prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered
    one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his
    impact on Filipino literature.
    • Work: Florante at Laura
     Full title: Pinagdaanang Buhay nina Florante
    at Laura sa Kahariang Albanya Kinuha sa
    madlang "cuadro histórico" o pinturang
    nagsasabi sa mga nangyari nang unang
    panahon sa Imperyo ng Gresya.
     The story is about the love and determination
    of the Duke Florante and the Princess Laura of
    Albania while being pursued by the usurper
    Count Adolfo.
     Balagtas wrote the epic during his
    imprisonment.
     He dedicated it to his sweetheart María
    Asuncion Rivera.
    Francisco Arcellana
    • September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002
    • He became a member of The Torres Torch
    Organization during his high school years.
    • He received a Rockefeller Grant and became a
    fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and
    at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference from 1956– 1957.
    • Work: Through a Glass, Darkly
     This book compiles prose works of National Artist
    Francisco Arcellana.
     Comprising of columns written just after the
    Pacific War, introductions to books of fellow
    writers, commencement speeches, interviews
    with students, and papers delivered on the
    sidelines of a workshop.
     It presents another side of the writer, whose
    centennial was celebrated in 2016.
    Lualhati Bautista
    • Born December 2, 1945
    • One of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the
    history of contemporary Philippine literature.
    • Bautista was born in Tondo, Manila, Philippines on
    December 2, 1945, to Esteban Bautista and Gloria
    Torres.
    • She was a journalism student at the Lyceum of the
    Philippines, but dropped out because she had
    always wanted to be a writer and schoolwork was
    taking too much time.
    • Work: Bata, Bata… Paano ka ginawa?
     A novel written in Tagalog by the Filipino female
    writer, Lualhati Bautista.
     The novel is about the role of a woman, like its
    author, with Filipino society wherein the males
    were, in the past, assuming more dominant
    roles in society.
    Carlos Bulosan
    • November 24, 1913 – September 11, 1956
    • Was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet
    who immigrated to America on July 1, 1930.
    • He never returned to the Philippines and he spent
    most of his life in the United States.
    • He first gained fame for his 1943 essay on The
    Freedom from Want.
    • Work: America is in the Heart
     A 1946 semi-autobiographical novel.
     Presented the experiences of the immigrant
    and working class based on an Asian
    American point of view and has been
    regarded as the “premier text of the Filipino-
    American experience."
    Cecilia Manguerra
    Brainard
    • Born 1947
    • Grew up in Cebu City, Philippines, the youngest of four
    children to Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra and
    Mariano F. Manguerra.
    • An author and editor of 20 books.
    • She co-founded PAWWA or Philippine American Women
    Writers and Artists; and also founded Philippine
    American Literary House.
    • Work: Cecilia’s Diary
     Set in the early 1960s, these are recollections set in
    an idyllic time, as seen from the eyes of a playful
    and innocent young girl who discovers solace and
    self in the blank pages of a diary.
     Cecilia’s Diary traces the author’s own experiences
    as a young woman of religious and privileged
    upbringing.

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