Magallanes National Vocational High School

Magallanes, Sorsogon
SY: 2019 – 2020

Authors
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(Region VI: Western Visayas) (Hiligaynon: Kabisay-an Nakatundan; Tagalog: Kanlurang
Kabisayaan or Kanlurang Visayas) is an administrative region in the
Philippines, numerically designated as Region VI. It consists of six provinces
(Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo, and Negros Occidental) and two
Prepared by: highly urbanized cities (Bacolod City, and Iloilo City). The regional center is
Paul Bryan B. Camacho Iloilo City. The region is dominated by the native speakers of four Visayan
Markbernie G. Ocampo languages: Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon, Aklanon, and Capiznon. The land area
G11 – EIM region is 20, 794.18 km2 and with a population of 7,536,383 inhabitants – most
populous region in Visayas.

Municipalities: 117
Barangays: 4,051
MRS. LOUELLA JANE R. LAURA Cong. Districts: 16
Languages: Hiligaynon, Aklanon/Malaynon, Capiznon, Kinaray-a,
Subject Teacher
Filipino, English

On May 29, 2015, the region was realigned, when Western Visayas
(Region VI) lost both the province of Negros Occidental and the highly
urbanized city of Bacolod to the newly formed Negros Island Region.
However, the region was dissolved, resulting in the return of Negros Occidental
and Bacolod to Western Visayas Region on August 9, 2017.
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Letter
May Isa ka Kuring nga Hari kag Iban pa nga Sugilanon,
Translation by
Kasingkasing Leoncio
Press, P. Deriada
Iloilo, 2010, a collection of seven stories for

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2001
children
Little Lessons, Little Lectures, Seguiban Printers and Publishing House,
Mother,  Sa Taguangkan sang Duta kag Iban pa nga Sugilanon,
The Week of the Whales and Other Stories, New Day Publishers, 1994
Seguiban Press, Iloilo, 2009 – a collection of short stories in
I dropped your letter when the postman handed it.

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Hiligaynon.
The Dog Eaters and Other Plays, New Day Publishers, 1986

T It was very heavy even if it was only a page.

The Road to Mawab and Other Stories, New Day Publishers, 1984
The charcoal-black ink was too concentrated.
 Leoncio P. Deriada
Selected Works
Maybe it seeped through the paper and stained your
(Born:kitchen
Jan. 13,table

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1938, Died: Apr. 4, 2019)

H But at the bottom of the paper,

The other words changed color,
of the UP Institute of Creative Writing.
Like islands when beheld.

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he was the head of the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino. He was also an associate

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He is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Philippines Visayas, where
I looked which part was antique.
Mother, I could not read your letter anymore.
Outstanding Teachers.
Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas, etc. In 2002, he was one of Metrobank’s

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Many more islands appeared.
& I
prestigious awards such as the Gawad CCP para sa Sining, Gawad
The page was filled.
-ber 1, 2001. Aside from his Palanca Awards, he has garnered other
Whatever you said about father, and my younger brothers and sisters,
Palanca Hall of Famer on Septem

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May God have pity on them.
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are first-prized winners. He became a
Mother, don’t write to me anymore. and Hiligaynon. Of these seventeen, five
Awards include works in English, Filipino,
Let us not overwork the postman some more.

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a, and Cebuano. His seventeen Palanca
Save on ink, in English, Filipino, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-
So that your kitchen table will not stain. multilingual writer having produced works
And the islands,
spent most of his life in Davao. He is a

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Leoncio P. Deriada was born on Iloilo but
I don’t want to see them again.
Lovingly,
Your child.

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in Philippine literature.
permanent and significant milestones Alain Russ Dimzon was the first
fellow for Hiligaynon Poetry of the
works are said to have left
UP National Writers Workshop. As
a poet, fictionist, lyricist, and
Hailing from Western Visayas, her
writers in the Hiligaynon language. songwriter, his works in Hiligaynon,
one of the most prolific Filipino Filipino, and English have appeared
writer. She is now remembered as in newspapers, magazine, and
Jalandoni was a Filipino feminist organizations, namely Home Life,
Magdalena Gonzaga National Midweek, Sunday Inquirer
Magazine, Philippine Free Press,
Philippine Graphic, The Sunday
Her works span from the coming of Malay settlers in the Middle Times, etc. His awards come from
Ages up to the Spanish and American colonial eras as well as the Hi
Japanese occupation of World War II, all portraying the history of
Panay and the evolution of the Ilonggo culture. -ligaynon Magasin, Home Life, National Commission for the Culture
Her famous poem “Ang Gitara” (The Guitar) is read in classrooms and the Arts, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,etc.
all over the country today. He has authored and co-authored scientific and policy papers which
Throughout her turbulent and displaced life, she still managed to passed the screening, were invited, presented, or published by the
publish 36 novels, 122 short stories, 7 novelettes, 7 long plays, 24 University of Florida, American Academy of Sciences, Widner
short plays, and dialogos in verse compiled in two volumes of University of Pennsylvania, Amsterdam and Berlin Conferences on the
personally compiled essay, including some translations from Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, and the
Spanish and two autobiographies. International Society on Equity on Health – Canada.
She has been displaced from her hometown twice and has survived Recently, he received the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from
the Philippine Revolution, the Filipino-American War, and the UMPIL.
Japanese Occupation
In 1977, she received the prestigious Republic Cultural Heritage
Award for her literary achievements from the government, about
one year before her death on September 14, 1978 at the age of 85.
Some of his works include:
Her family’s ancestral house still stands as a historical landmark Repentances and Rehabilitations, Earliest Published Poems, ©2016,
and museum not far from the cathedral of Jaro. Kasingkasing Press, Guimaras, Philippines
Walo Kag Dose Na, Contemporary Hiligaynon Songs in the Folk Style
Her Other Famous Works Include: Tradition, ©2015, Kasingkasing Press
Anabella Ang Manunulat Kag Pendulum, Hiligaynon Poems with English
Sa Kapaaang Sang Inaway (In the Heat of War) Translation & Notes on the Author’s Philological Theory, ©2008,
Ang Dalaga sa Tindahan (The Young Woman in the Store) University of San Agustin Publishing House
Ang Kahapon ng Panay (The Past of Panay)
Place of Birth: Jaro, Iloilo City Place of Birth: Jaro, Iloilo CIty
 Magdalena G. Jalandoni (May 27, 1893 – September 14, 1978)  Alain Russ Dimzon (Born: October 31, 1963)
 authored at least 20 books, and has written screenplays. He wrote
 Peter Solis newspapers
and edited Nery (Born:
in January 6, 1969)
Iloilo City before becoming a nurse in
the of
Place United States.
Birth: Iloilo, Philippines
References
Some Popular Works:
 I Flew a Kite for Pepe (New Day Publishers. Quezon
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Visayas
City: 1993)
 https://nnc.gov.ph/index.php/regional-offices/region-vi-western-visayas/  The Essential Thoughts of a Purple Cat (Giraffe Books.
50-region-6-profile/290-region-vi-profile-western-visayas-2.html Quezon City: 1996)
 Rated R (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997)
 https://panitikan.ph/2018/07/30/alice-tan-gonzales-2/  Fantasia (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000)
 The Prince of Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing.
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoncio_P._Deriada Iloilo: 2001)
 Love in the Time of the Bakunawa (CreateSpace.
U.S.A.: 2012)
 http://leonciopderiada.blogspot.com/2012/10/letter.html?m=1
 Welcome to Grindr (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2016)
 Funny, Sad, and Dangerous (KDP. U.S.A.: 2019)
 https://panitikan.ph/2018/05/31/alain-russ-dimzon/

 https://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/national-artists-
of-the-philippines/ramon-muzones/

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Jalandoni

authore
 https://m.facebook.com/notes/komisyon-sa-wikang-filipino/daniw- Filipino, and Hiligaynon, he has
filipinas-magdalena-jalandoni/634197890084646/ (NCCA) Winner.Writing in English,
Western Visayas Literary Contest
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Solis_Nery
CCP Literary Grant, and the All-
Literature Hall of Fame Awardee, the
Palanca Memorial Awards for
Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos
fictionist, author, and filmmaker.
Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet,