THE NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE PHILLIPINES FOR LITERATURE Flashcards
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1916-2002
- Year of Conferment: 1990
- studied in Tondo Intermediate School.
- it was at the Manila West High School (presently Florentino Torres High School) that he took up his writing seriously.
FRANCISCIO ARCELLANA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- became a staff member of the Torres Torch (the school organ)
- as a student, he wrote “The Man Who Would Be Poe”.
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Considered as ONE of the PIONEERS of MODERN FILIPINO SHORT STORY in ENGLISH.
- His short stories are written in LYRICAL PROSE - POETIC FORM?
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Exceptional works in fiction include
+ Death in a Factory
+ A Clown Remembers
+ Divided by Two - Some poems include:
+ The Other Woman
+ To Touch You
+ I Touch Her
(these are among other that are now part of the secondary and tertiary-level syllabi in the country)
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1915-1999
- Year of Conferment: 1997
- is a FICTIONIST, ESSAYISY, POET, and TEACHER
NESTOR VICENTE MADALI GONZALES (N.V.M. GONZALEZ)
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- ARTICULATED the FILIPINO SPIRIT in RURAL and URBAN LANDSCAPES.
- Among the many recognitions:
+ he won the FIRST COMMONWEALTH LITERARY CONTEST (1940)
+ Received the REPUBLIC CULTURAL HERITAGE AWARD (1960)
+ Gawad CCP Para sa Sining (1990)
NESTOR VICENTE MADALI GONZALES (N.V.M. GONZALEZ)
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- The awards attest to his TRIUMPH in APPROPRIATING the ENGLISH LANGUAGE to express, reflect and shape PHILIPPINE CULTURE and PHILIPPINE SENSIBILITY.
NESTOR VICENTE MADALI GONZALEZ (N.V.M. GONZALEZ)
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- UP’s INTERANTIONAL-WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
- Member of the BOARD OF ADVISER of the UP Creative Writing Center.
- UP conferred on him the DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTER, honoris causa, its HIGHEST ACADEMIC RECOGNITION (1987)
NESTOR VICENTE MADALI GONZALEZ (N.V.M. GONZALEZ)
Who is this Nat. Artist?
Major Works of this Nat. Artist are the following:
1. The Winds of April
2. Seven Hills Away
3. Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories
4. The Bamboo Dancers
5. Look Stranger, on this island now
6. Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-One Stories
7. The Bread of Salt and Other Stories
8. Work on the Mountain
9. The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994
10. A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories
NESTOR VICENTE MADALI GONZALEZ (N.V.M. GONZALEZ)
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1917-2004
- Year of Conferment: 1976
- regarded as the MOST DISTINGUISHED FILIPINO WRITER in ENGLISH WRITING.
NICK JOAQUIN
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Enriched the English language with critics coining “Joaquinesque” to describe their BAROQUE SPANISH-FLAVORED ENGLISH or their REINVENTIONS of ENGLISH BASED on FILIPINISMS.
NICK JOAQUIN
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Has written PLAYS, NOVELS, POEMS, SHORT STORIES, and ESSAYS including REPORTAGE and JOURNALISM.
- Uses the nom de plume “QUIJANO de MANILA” as a journalist.
- Francisco Arcellana: whether they are writing journalism or literature, “it is always of the highest skill and quality”
NICK JOAQUIN
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Voluminous works are:
1) The Woman Who Had Two Navels
2) A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
3) Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young
4) The Ballad of the Five Battles
5) Rizal in Saga
6) Almanac for Manilenos
7) Cave and Shadows
NICK JOAQUIN
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1924-2022
- Year of Conferment: 2001
- Their writings since the late 60s, when taken collectively can BEST DESCRIBED as EPIC.
FRANCISCO SIONIL JOSE
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- It’s sheer volume puts them on the FOREFRONT of PHILIPPINE WRITING in ENGLISH.
- But ultimately, it is the CONSISTENT ESPOUSAL of the ASPIRATIONS OF THE FILIPINO-FOR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE that guarantees the value of their OEUVRE.
FRANCISCO SIONIL JOSE
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- In the five-novel masterpiece, the ROSALES SAGA, consisting of the:
- The Pretenders
- Tree
- My Brother, My Executioner
- Mass
- Po-on
- Captures the SWEEP of PHILIPPINE HISTORY while simultaneously NARRATING the lives of generations of the Samsons whose personal lives intertwine with the SOCIAL STRUGGLES OF THE NATION.
- Because of their international appeal, their works, including their many short stories, have been PUBLISHED AND TRANSLATED INTO VARIOUS LANGUAGES.
FRANCISCO SIONIL JOSE
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Also a PUBLISHER, LECTURER on CULTURAL ISSUES, and the FOUNDER of the PHILIPPINE CHPATER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (PEN).
- Was bestowed the CCP CENTENNIAL HONORS FOR THE ARTS (1999)
- OUTSTANDING FULBRIGHTERS AWARD FOR LITERATURE (1988)
- RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD FOR JOURNALISM, LITERATURE, AND CREATIVE OMMUNICATION ARTS (1980)
FRANCISCO SIONIL JOSE
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1908-1997
- Year of Conferment: 1973
- is considered as ONE OF THE FINEST CONTEMPORARY POETS regardless of race or language.
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Lived in Singalong, Manila.
- introduced he REVERSED CONSONANCE RIME SCHEME.
- Including the COMMA POEMS - made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way.
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- The first of this artist’s poems “Have Come, Am Here” received CRITICAL RECOGNITION when it appeared in NEW YORK (1942) that, soon enough, honors and fellowships were heaped on them:
1. Guggenheim
2. Bollingen
3. American Academy of Arts
4. Letters Awards
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Used DOVEGLION (DOVE, EAGLE, LION) as a pen name, the very characters they used for themself, and the same one explored by E.E. Cummings in the poem they wrote for this Nat. Artist (DOVEGLION, ADVENTURES IN VALUE).
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Is known for the TARTNESS OF THEIR TONGUE
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Their works have been collected into the following books:
1. Footnote to Youth
2. Many Voices, Poems by Doveglion
3. Poems 55
4. Poems in Praise of Love: The Best Love Poems by Jose Garcia Villa as chosen by himself
5. Selected Stories
6. The Portable Villa
7. The Essential Villa
8. Mir-i-nisa
9. Storymasters 3: Selected Stories from Footnote to Youth
10. 55 Poems: Selected and Transalated into Tagalog by Hilario S. Francio.
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1919-2011
- Year of Conferment: 1999
- A POET, FICTIONIST, TEACHER and LITERARY CRITIC.
- ONE of the FINEST FILIPINO WRITERS in ENGLISH
EDITH L. TIEMPO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Works are characterized by a REMARKABLE FUSION of STYLE and SUBSTANCE, of CRAFTSMANSHIP and INSIGHT.
EDITH L. TIEMPO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Born on April 22, 1919, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.
- Their poems are INTRICATE VERBAL TRANSFIGURATIONS of SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES as revealed, in two of their MUCH ANTHOLOGIZED pieces “THE LITTLE MARMOSET” and “BONSAI”.
EDITH L. TIEMPO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- As a FICTIONIST, they are MORALLY PROFOUND.- Their language has been marked as “DESCRIPTIVE but UNBURDENED by SCRUPULOUS DETAILING.”
- They are an IUNFLUENTIAL TRADITION in Philippine literature in English,
- Together with their late spouse, EDILBERTO K. TIEMPO, they founded and directed the SILLIMAN NATIONAL WRITERS WORKSHOP in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the country’s best writers.
EDITH L. TIEMPO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1944-
- Year of Conferment: 2003
- Known as RIO ALMA.
- a POET, LITERARY HISTORIAN and CRITIC, who has REVIVED and REINVENTED, TRADITIONAL FILIPINO POETIC FORMS, even as they championed MODERNIST POETICS.
VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- In 34 years, they have published 12 BOOKS of POETRY, which include the seminal MAKINASYON and PEREGRINASYON, and the landmark trilogy:
I. Doktrinang Anakpawis
II. Mga Retrato at Rekwerdo
III. Muli, Sa Kandungan ng Lupa.
VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- In their works, their poetic voice soared from the LYRICAL to the SATIRICAL to the EPIC.
- From the DRAMATIC to the INCANTORY, in their often SEVERE EXAMINATION of the SELF AND THE SOCIETY.
VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- They have REDEFINED how the FILIPINO POETRY is VIEWED and paved the way for the discussion of the same in their 10 books of criticisms and anthologies, among which are:
1. Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina
2. Balagtasismo versus Modernismo
3. Walong Dekada ng Makabagong Tula Pilipino
4. Mutyang Dilim
5. Barlaan at Josaphat
VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Many Filipino writers have come under their wing in the literary workshops they founded:
1. Galian sa Arte at Tula (GAT)
2. Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA) - They have also long been involved with children’s literature through Aklat Adarna series, published by their CHILDREN COMMUNICATION CENTER,.
VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Constant presence as well in national writing workshops and galvanizes member writers as CHAIRMAN EMERITUS of the UNTON NG MGA MANUNULAT SA PILIPINAS (UMPIL).
- Accomplished that they PUT A FACE to the FILIPINO WRITER IN THE COUNTRY, one STRING FACE determinedly wielding a pen into UNTRUTHS, HYPOCRISY, INJUSTICE, among others.
VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- 1903-1970
- Year of Conferment: 1973
- This COURAGEOUS Filipino writer was well-known for their DISAPPROVAL OF SOCIAL INJUSTICES in the country.
AMADO V. HERNANDEZ
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Was later imprisoned for their participation to the communist movement.
- Firmly believed that writers play an important role in society acting “AS THE CONSCIENCE OF SOCIETY AND TO AFFIRM THE GREATNESS OF HUMAN SPIRIT IN THE FACE OF INEQUITIES AND OPPRESSION.”
AMADO V. HERNANDEZ
Who is this Nat. Artist?
- Wrote the novel “MGA IBONG MANDARAGIT” while IN PRISON.
- Notable works:
1. Bayang Malaya
2. Isang Dipang Langit
3. Luha ng Buwaya
4. Tudla at Tudling: Katipunan ng mga Nalthalang Tula 1921-1970
5. Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas at Iba Pang Kwento
6. Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol at Iba Pang Akda
AMADO V. HERNANDEZ