•Born on 1974

•grew up in Cebu City, Philippines

•Youngest of four children to concepcion
cuenco manguerra and mariano f.
Manguerra
•She co-founded PAWWA; Philippine
American Women Writers and Artists;and
also Philippine American Literary House.
•Brainard is an author and editor of 20
books including magdalena
 Cecilia Manguerra Brainard has
written an ambitious novel of
forbidden love. Set against the
turbulent history of East Asia in the
twentieth century and by turns
erotic and tragic,
• Magdalena vividly depicts three
generations of strong Filipino
women.
 With Magdalena, Brainard uses a
nonlinear narrative and multiple
points of view
 to describe the history of the
Philippines that roughly
corresponds to its contact with the
United States from the Spanish-
American War to the war in
• novel brings into focus not only
the romantic and social conflicts
of different generations of
women but also economic and
racial divisions in the
Philippines.
• that remind the reader that while
the characters are fictional, the
backdrop is historical reality.
• The novel brings into focus not only
the romantic and social conflicts
• Interspersed throughout the novel are
archival photographs of places and
people,
• Despite many tragic turns, Magdalena
carries a hopeful message drawn from
a naked, full-bodied and emboldened
depiction of the strong and resilient
Filipina.
•was born on May 4, 1917 in Pacó, Manila
•was the fifth out of the ten children of
Don Leocadio Joaquín and Salomé
Márquez.
•Joaquín was already exploring his
literary voice. At age 17,
• published his first English poem about
Don Quixote a National Artist for
Literature and leading English-language
writer from the Philippines.
• Very early on, The woman who
had two navels is a 1961
historical novel by Nick Joaquin,
• This novel by Joaquin is a
literary assessment of the
influence of the past to the time
encompassing events in the
Philippines after World War II,
• an examination of an assortment of
legacy and heritage and the questions of
how can an individual exercise free will
and how to deal with the “shock” after
experiencing “epiphanic recognition”
• This book is a fictional story of a Filipina
woman who believes she has two navels.
• It is widely considered as a classic in
Philippine literature.
• Jessica Hagedorn born on 1941
• is a Filipino playwright, writer, poet,
and multimedia performance
artist.which illuminates many
different aspects of Filipino
experience, focusing on the influence
of America through radio, television,
and movie theaters.
• In 1985, 1986, and 1988, she received
MacDowell Colony fellowships, which
helped enable her to write the novel
Dogeaters, written by Jessica Hagedorn
• The title is a common derogatory term
referring to Filipino natives who supposedly
eat dogs instead of pork or chicken.
• Dogeaters, set in the late 1950s in Manila
addresses several social, political and
cultural issues present in the Philippines
during the 1950s.
• The term reflects attitudes
within Filipino culture and
attempts to become more
westernized.
• Dogeaters was first
published in 1990,
• When the novel Dogeaters won an
American Book Award in 1990 and
was nominated for the National
Book Award in 1991.
• The New York Times said that it
was written with "wit and
originality“ Another critic argued
that the novel is based on Filipino
nationalism.
•Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in the Philippines in
Binalonan, Pangasinan. 
•Born on November 13, 1913, There is considerable debat
around his actual birth date, as he himself used several
dates.
•1911 is generally considered to be the most reliable
answer, based on his baptismal records
•His home town is also the starting point of his famous
semi-autobiographical novel, America is in the Heart.
•He left for America on July 22, 1930 at age 17, in the hope
of finding salvation from the economic depression of his
home. Following the pattern of many Filipinos during the
American colonial period,
• sometimes subtitled A Personal
History, is a 1946 semi-
autobiographical novel written by
Filipino American immigrant poet,
fiction writer, short story teller, an
activist, Carlos Bulosan.
• The novel was one of The earliest
published books that presented
• the experiences of the
immigrant and working class
based on an Asian American
point of view and has been
regarded as "The premier
text of the Filipino-American
experience.“
• He is celebrated for giving a post-colonial,
Asian immigrant perspective to the labor
movement in America and for telling the
experience of Filipinos working in the U.S.
during the 1930s and '40s.
• In the 1970s, with a resurgence in
Asian/Pacific Islander American activism
• leading to posthumous releases of
several unfinished works and anthologies
of his poetry.
• journalist Carey McWilliams,[1] who
wrote a 1939 study about migrant
farm labor in California described
America Is in the Heart as a “social
classic” that reflected on the
experiences of Filipino immigrants in
America who were searching for the
“promises of a better life”.
•born 2 January 1969
•is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer
of speculative fiction. 
•His plays have been performed in venues
across the country, Such as in
Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit,
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the
Exotic Gothic series.
•He was a fellow at the 1992 Dumaguete
National Writers Workshop as well as the
• His plays have been performed in
venues across the country,
• as well as the 20th and 48th UP
National Writers Workshop.
• His literary awards include ten Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature (Palanca Awards) —
including the Grand Prize for Novel
SALAMANCA
•He is the author of the novel Salamanca
(Ateneo Press, 2006)
•first novel is about the sorcery wrought
by love, lust, and literature, by
friendship, family, and the Filipino
nation.
•Salamanca streaks across decades and
spaces, while his articles and fiction
have been published both in his native
Philippines and abroad,
•Tracing the arc of an imperfect marriage
sundered by acts of nature (not least human)
and sutured by acts of will (not least
nonhuman), and vividly peopled by a
multigenerational and multinational cast of kith
and kin, tracking the stormy relationship
between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio
Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious feats
of writing and wandering, and Palawena beauty
Jacinta Cordova, whose perfection transmutes
walls into glass and adoration into art.
• this work of imagination
takes the reader on a
magical excursion into
Philippine life and history
while setting new standards
for the Filipino novel along
the way.