Filipino Authors

NAME YEARS ACTIVE NOTABLE WORK THEME/STYLE

The Francisco lyrical prose-poetic

Francisco Arcellana September 6, 1916 –
August 1, 2002
Francisco Balagtas April 2, 1788 –
February 20, 1862
form. tertiary-level-
Arcellana Sampler
syllabi in the
(1991)
Philippines
Florante at Laura patriot to his country
and nationalism. he
uses Ladino style of
poems.

Lualhati Bautista exposing injustices

1962 Dekada '70

and chronicling
women activism
during the Marcos era.

He likes to write
Louis Bulaong july 26, 2020 Escapist Dream science fiction and

stories related to
principles of mental
health.
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NAME YEARS ACTIVE WORKS THEME/STYLE

The Freedom from His works are more

Carlos Bulosan
1943 Want. about nationalism,

American activism and

his experience in other
country.
Cecilia Manguerra
1956 World War II novel nationalism and
Brainard
women power.

liberal and
José Rizal October 1887 Noli Me Tángere
progressive ideas of

individual rights and

freedom

Luis G. Dato 1926 Manila, A Collection history and glory of

of Verse. modern-day Portugal.

Guillermo Gómez 1973 Quis ut Deus (Who Is spanish language

Rivera Like God),

The Sorrows of
1937 God and humanity
Nick Joaquin

Vaudeville

Foreign Authors
NAME YEARS ACTIVE WORKS THEME/STYLE

Poor Folk evocative of the

Fyodor Dostoevsky 1845
darkest aspects of a

society. Often themes

such as poverty,
prison, humanity, and
self-psychological
morality

Dante Alighieri June 1, 1265 Commedia writing style of rhyme

known was terza Rima,

meaning triple rhyme.
theme divine comedy

Lev Tolstoy 1852 Childhood ethical principles and

values by which every

person should live

Victor Hugo 1843 Les Misérables about shaping

democracy and the

Third Republic

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writing style was to

William 1592 Romeo and Juliet make his heroes talk
Shakespeare in the natural

language while being

quite poetic
Johann Wolfgang
1774 The Sorrows of Young aesthetic criticism as
von Goethe
Werther well as treatises on

botany, anatomy, and

colour.

.Giovanni Boccaccio 1971 The Decameron correspondent of

Petrarch, and an

important Renaissance

humanist

His works are a blend of

Franz
Kafka 1908 Meditation
elements of fantasy

and realism.

invisibility of those
Anton Chekhov 1879 Ivanov

who are poor,

oppressed, and

suffering
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the Hobbit elegant, unique,

J.R.R. Tolkien 1937
graceful, and old-

fashioned.

William
Faulkner 1949 He used baroque
The Sound and the

Fury" style

Arthur
Rimbaud 1970 A Big Grey-Blue Bird transgressive and

surreal themes

Molière
1654 comedy plays

"L'Ecole des maris

prolific linguistic

Charles

Dickens 1836 The Pickwick Papers creativity. He uses


satire in his work to


criticize the follies of

society.

"Tamerlane and Gothic and dealt with

Edgar Allan

Poe May of 1827 Other Poems" themes like the effects

of decomposition,

concerns of premature

burial.
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NAME YEARS ACTIVE WORKS THEME/STYLE

evil and morbidity.

1854 Ravenna The reality of
Oscar Wilde

human nature.

1654 His theme was folly

Jean de La

Fontaine l'Eunuque
of human vanity.

exploration of the
Rainer Maria Rilke 1900

Malte Laurids Brigge

Christian faith is a

major theme.

. Hans Christian

1828 The little mermaid fairytales
Andersen

his writing was

1904 A Portrait of the Artist attacked as
James
Joyce

as a Young Man

‘subversive’

Louis-Ferdinand

a black pessimism
Céline
1979 A Die Nacht about humanity, violent

diatribes, and an

increasingly hysterical

desperation.
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NAME YEARS ACTIVE WORKS THEME/STYLE

Boris Pasternak 1914 My Sister - Life nature, life,

humanity, and love.

Federico García Lorca a preoccupation with

1898 Blood Wedding

sexual identity.

Pablo
Neruda 1971 A song of Despair themes like love and

patriotism with raw

emotion

Ursula K.
Le Guin 1980

Tales from Earthsea science fiction and

fantasy genres

Nikolay

Gogol The Inspector General Romanticism and

1836

realism

Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the

1916

Sea modernist style

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November 10, 1960 Stardust He is like a

Neil Gaiman
chameleon, his

writing style adhering

to whatever story

he’s trying to tell

Albert Camus 1942

The stranger is idea that human

life is, objectively

speaking,

meaningless.

Sartre
Jean-Paul 1938 Nausea existentialism and

humanist Marxism

1926 Cup of Gold ethics and dignity
John Steinbeck

influence the human

race

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Milan Kundera April 1st 1929 Laughable Loves ten tial ism his style

Extraordinary
Jules Verne science fiction

1828-1905 Journeys

his writing style is
Mark
Twain

November 30, 1835 by the mark, twain Southwestern humor.

works are famous for

Francois Rabelais

February 4, 1494 Gargantua

their bawdy, satirical

nature

George Bernard a rationalist, anti-

1893 The Apple Cart
Shaw
romantic, and a realist

writer.

Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 Sherlock Holmes His writing style is

modern. He focuses on

horror, detective

stories, science fiction,

and historical fiction.

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NAME YEARS ACTIVE WORKS THEME/STYLE

1801 Persuasion mix of neoclassicism

Jane Austen
and romanticism.

Geoffrey 1343
The canterbury Tales his word order for the

Chaucer
sake of his rhymes,

which can make his

tales a bit tricky for

modern readers.

The Catcher in the

J.D. Salinger 1948 the concept of mental

Rye
illness.

Virginia
Woolf 1922 Between the Acts style of Indirect

Interior Monologue

Louis Aragon Manifeste du

1924 themes of love and

Surréalisme

death

Louis Aragon
1846 His Style as a Dark

Moby-Dick

Romantic,