21ST CENTURY LITERATURE AUTHORS Flashcards
● was a poet, fictionist and essayist from Quezon City,
- died in pneumonia at 76.
Cirilo F. Bautista
○“Sunlight on Broken Stones (2000)”
○ “Tinik sa Dila: Isang Katipunan Ng Mga Tula (2003)”
○ “The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus (2001)
Cirilo F. Bautista
○ Palanca Awards Hall of Famer for winning (9) times for
poetry, fiction and essay.
○ National Artist for Literature in 2014
Cirilo F. Bautista
● PHANTOM OF FILIPINO LITERATURE
● web developer and contemporary novelist known for
his conversational writing technique which creates a
comical and reflective descriptions
Roberto “Bob” Ong
○ “Stainless Longganisa (2005)”
○ “Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas (2003)”
○ “ABNKKBSNPLAKO (2001)”
○ “Kapitan Sino (2009)”
Roberto “Bob” Ong
● writer, Indie filmmaker, author, and pride of Pampanga
Jason Paul Laxamana
○ Gawad Urian Award for Best Screenplay nominee for “Babagwa” (2014)
○ Gawad Urian Award for Best Screenplay and Best Direction
nominee for “The Coffin Maker (2015).
Jason Paul Laxamana
● a Cebuana movie and television writer and a melodrama novelist
● her well-known novels in pocketbooks have been turned into live-action movies by film industries in this country, and were also made into a telenovela.
Gilda Olvidado
○“Saan Nagtatago ang Pag-ibig (1987)
○ The “Temptation of Wife (2012)”
○ “The Half Sisters (2014)”
Gilda Olvidado
○ FAMAS Awardee for Best Story for the film (“Saan Nagtatago ang Pag-ibig”
Gilda Olvidado
● COUNTRY’S FIRST AND FOREMOST CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
● an Ilonggo educator and an author from Cabatuan
● known for his significant body of work in the field of Philippine cultural anthropology for documenting and translating the famous Western Visayan folk epic, “Hinilawod.”
Felipe Landa Jocano
○ Slum as a Way of Life
○ Folk Medicine in a Philippine Municipality
○ Growing Up in a Philippine Barrio
Felipe Landa Jocano
● THE FATHER OF CONTEMPORARY WEST VISAYAN LITERATURE
● an Ilonggo multilingual writer, multi-awarded novelist, playwright, and poet whose works became a Palanca Hall of Fame in 2001 after winning 15 prizes, five of which are first prizes in various categories.
Leoncio P. Deriada
○ The Road to Mawab and Other Stories (1984)
○ The Dog Eaters (1986)
○ The Week of the Whales and Other Stories (1994)
Leoncio P. Deriada
○ Palanca Hall of Fame in 2001 after winning 15 prizes, five of
which are first prizes in various categories.
Leoncio P. Deriada
● a native of Bacolod City, whose specialization and expertise is in Creative Writing in Hiligaynon.
● she was a Carlos Palanca Hall of Fame Awardee for winning five first places in the Hiligaynon Category for Maikling Kwento
Alicia Tan Gonzalez
○ Istoryahan Ta Ka Uli (2016)
○ Ilongga: Madamo nga Guya (2014)
○ May Isa ka Kuring nga Hari kag Iban pa nga (2010)
○ Sa Taguangkan sang Duta kag Iban pa nga Sugilanon (2009)
Alicia Tan Gonzalez
○ Carlos Palanca Hall of Fame Awardee for winning five first places in the Hiligaynon Category for Maikling Kwento.
Alicia Tan Gonzalez
● a creative writer and a librarian from Aklan
● received different awards in literature like the “Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas Award” in 2001.
● is also known as the “Father of Aklanon Literature”
Melchor F. Cichon
○ Ham-at Madoeom Ro Gabii (1999)
○ Philippine Oddities, Love Can Find a Way and Other
Proverbs on Love (2005)
○ The Whisper
Melchor F. Cichon
○ received different awards in literature like the “Gawad
Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas Award” in 2001.
Melchor F. Cichon
● a multi-award-winning Filipino poet, fictionist, and playwright from Dumangas, Iloilo.
● his poetry and short stories made him the Hall of Fame awardee of Palanca Awards in 2012.
● screenplays have also won the Philippine Centennial
Literary Prize, 2001 Cinemanila International Film
Festival and other national film competitions.
Peter Solis Nery
○ Love in the Time of Bakunawa (2012)
○ Cory, Full of Grace (2012)
Peter Solis Nery
Hall of Fame awardee of Palanca Awards in 2012.
○ screenplays have also won the Philippine Centennial
Literary Prize, 2001 Cinemanila International Film
Festival and other national film competitions
Peter Solis Nery
- A multilingual writer, university professor and freelance journalist from Antique who poineered the Philippine gay literature
- multi-awarded poet and playwright author of Kinaray-a literary works, and a 5 time awardee of Palanca Awards
John Iremil E. Teodoro
- “Kung ang Tla ay Pwedeng Pambili ng Lalaki: Mga Tula” (2006)
- “Hasang: Mga Kwento ng Pag-ibig” (2016)
John Iremil E. Teodoro
5 time awardee of the Palanca Awards
John Iremil E. Teodoro
