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● SPIRITUAL VALUE
- Literature elevates the spirit and the
soul and thus has the power to
motivate and to inspire
Reviewer ! zbrei.ync ● STYLE
- Presents ways how man sees life
WHAT MAKES LITERATURE LITERATURE? - Presents unusual ways on how
- Quality man sees life as evidence by the
- Experiences formation of his ideas, form,
- Life structures, and expressions which
- Artistry are marked by their memorable
- Intellectual value substance.
- Permanence
! Timeliness WEEK 2 - The 21st century filipino authors
! Timelessness
- Universality FROM OTHER REGIONS:
- Suggestiveness - The oral literature of the early Filipinos were
- Spiritual Value overpowered by the wide range impact of
different regimes.
QUALITIES OF LITERATURE
CIRILO F. BUSTISTA
● ARTISTRY - a poet, fictionist and essayist from Quezon
- Literature has an aesthetic appeal City
and thus possesses a sense of - died in pneumonia at 76
beauty - poetry and fiction, lectures and creative
writing workshops, inspired young writers
● INTELLECTUAL VALUE to develop their creative talents
- Stimulates critical thinking that - One of his works, “The Trilogy of Saint
enriches mental processes of Lazarus (2001)”
abstract and reasoning, making -
man realize the fundamental of ROBERTO ONG
truths of life and its nature - known for his pseudonym “Bob Ong.”
- web developer and contemporary novelist
● PERMANENCE from Quezon City
- Literature endures across time and - known for his conversational writing
draws out the time factor technique
! TIMELINESS - creates a comical and reflective
- Occurs at a particular time descriptions of Philippine life
! TIMELESSNESS - books with an element of comedy
- Remains invariable throughout time replicates the manner of Filipino culture
and traditions, it is also the reason why
● UNIVERSALITY Pinoys patronized his work
- Literature appeals to everyone, - He became the “Phantom of Filipino
regardless of culture, race, sex, and Literature.” because of his book
time, which are all considered - One of his work is the “Kapitan Sino
significant. (2009)”

● SUGGESTIVENESS
- Unravels man’s emotional power to
define symbolism, implied meaning,
images and messages, giving and
evoking visions above and beyond
the plane of ordinary life and
experience.

Jason Paul Laxamana
- a writer, Indie filmmaker, book author and a
pride of Pampanga.
- He wrote his own scripts and used this as
a medium of communication to the
viewers
- He believes that a good communicator
would make people pay attention.
- He also believe that “without an audience,
a film is just a light projected on a
screen”
- Best Screenplay and Best Direction nominee
for “The Coffin Maker (2015).
Gilda Olvidado
- A Cebuana movie and television writer and
a melodrama novelist
- well-known novels in pocketbooks turned
into live-action movies, also made into a
telenovela.
- FAMAS Awardee for Best Story for the film
(“Saan Natatago ang Pab-ibig”)
Felipe Landa Jocano
- Ilonggo educator and an author from
Cabatuan
- known for documenting and translating the
folk epic, “Hinilawod.”
- “the country’s first and foremost cultural
anthropologist”
- a proponent of the Core Population Theory
of peopling of Southeast Asia.
- One of his work, Slum as a Way of Life
NOTABLE AUTHORS FROM WESTERN VISAYAS
- Hiligaynon is the Lingua Franca of
Western Visayas
- Composed of provinces of Iloilo, Capiz,
Antique and Aklan on the Island of Panay;
Negros Occidental and Guimaras.
- Kinaray-a or Hiraya is the mother
language in Central and Southern towns
of Iloilo, Province of Antique and Capiz.
Folk literature includes:
● riddles (paktakon)
● proverbs (hurubaton)
● ritual chants, songs and poems (binalaybay)
● tale (sugilanon)
- Spaniards came, the production of new
forms of folk literature started and were
translated in Spanish text of prayers and
lives of the saints
- Religious literature indeed flourished
during the Spanish era.
- Americans came, the golden age of
Hiligaynon literature took place. English
literature had a great influence on
Hiligaynon writers.
- The creation of the Presidential
Commission for Culture and Arts (PCCA)
and new management of the Cultural
Center of the Philippines during the Cory
Revolution of 1986 gave birth to new
writers and new writings in Hiligaynon.
Leoncio P. Deriada
- known as the “Father of Contemporary West
Visayan literature,”
- an Ilonggo multilingual writer,
multi-awarded novelist, playwright, and poet
- His works became a Palanca Hall of Fame
in 2001 after winning 15 prizes
Alicia Tan Gonzalez
- a native of Bacolod City
- Creative Writing in Hiligaynon
- Carlos Palanca Hall of Fame Awardee for
winning five first places in the Hiligaynon
Category for Maikling Kwento
Melchor F. Cichon
- A creative writer and a librarian from Aklan
- “Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas
Award” in 2001
- also known as the “Father of Aklanon
Literature.”
PETER SOLIS NERY
- 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.
JOHN IREMIL E. TEODORO

- a multilingual writer, university professor

and freelance journalist from Antique who
pioneered Philippine gay literature.
- a multi awarded poet and playwright author
of Kiniray-a literary works
- One of his famous poems is “Ang Baboy.”
- One of his works, “Hasang: Mga Kwento
ng Pag-Ibig (2016)”.
- A multilingual creative writer
- Five-time awardee of the Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards
- Published countless books of fiction and
poetry in 2008
- His essay collection entitled
Pagmumuni-muni at Pagtatalak ng Sirenang
Nagpapanggap na Prinsesa
- recipient of “Bugal kang Antique”