21ST CENTURY

Question 1

full names of “Dead Stars” main characters

Answer 1

Alfredo Salazar
Julia Salas

Question 2

J. Neil Garcia

Answer 2

Neil Carmelo Garcia

• 1969 (age 55 years),
• He finished his undergraduate studies in UST in 1990.
• Graduated magna cum laude in AB Journalism
• He continued his education in UP Diliman
  In 1995, he finished his M.A. Comparative Literature
• In 2003, he finished his Ph.d. in English Studies: Creative writing
• He is currently working in UP Diliman as a Creative writing and Comparative Literature professor
• Associate for Poetry at Likhaan: UP Institute of Creative Writing

Question 3

Famous Works of J. Neil Garcia

Answer 3

• Our Lady of the Carnival (1996)
• Philippine Gay Culture: The Last
  Thirty Years (1996)
• Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism (1998)
• The Sorrows of Water (2000)
• Kaluluwa (2001)
• Performing the Self: Occasional Prose (2003)
• The Garden of Wordlessness (2005)
• Misterios and Other Poems (2005)

Question 4

ALBERTO S.
FLRENTINO

Answer 4

• Author and playwright
  of the famed “The World
  is an Apple.”
• He usually portrays the
  struggles of Filipinos.
• Born on July 28, 1931
• Florentino had his first familiarity probably during the
  time when his father, a teacher, was active on school
  activities such as directing plays, opted to get
  assistance from his son to do copies of the plays that
  he is directing.
• It is said that Florentino got his technique in playwriting with the experiences he got due to the fact that while typing multiple copies of his father’s plays, he needed to read the manuscript over and over again.

Question 5

ALBERTO S.
FLRENTINO EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Answer 5

• He attended U.S. Information Service and then
  at the University of the East.
• He also attended the University of the
  Philippines and the Far Eastern University.
• Alberto Florentino was 23 when, as an accounting student at the University of the East, he won a Palanca award for his play,

Question 6

“THE WORLD IS AN APPLE.”

Answer 6

• a play in one act
• It was first presented on television by the
  Caltex Star Caravan on the 24th of July
• It won the first prize in the one act category of
  the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
  Literature in 1953 and 1954.
• This play depicts social realities, particularly of
  the problems of the urban poor.
• This success at his first serious attempt at
  playwriting made him abandon his accounting
  studies to become a writer.
• He has since written more than 50 plays for stage
  and more than 100 for television, besides having
  published seven collections of his own plays and
  more than 70 titles by other Filipino authors.
• He is today considered one of the foremost Filipino
  playwrights in English.

Question 7

Jose Garcia Villa

Answer 7

• born in Manila in 1908
• he attended the University of the Philippines, but he was suspended in 1929 after publishing a series of erotic poems titled “Man-Songs” in the Philippine Herald Magazine.
• That same year, he won a short story contest through the Philippines Free Press and used the prize money to travel to the United States, where he studied at the University of New Mexico.
• From New Mexico, Villa moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. There, he became the only Asian poet in a community that also consisted of E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, and other modernist poets.
• In 1933, his Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (Charles Scribner’s Sons) became the first book of fiction by a Filipino author published by a major United States-based press.