Literary Forms in the

Philippines
Ma. Leticia Jose C. Basilan, PhD.
The Contemporary
Period
•  Filipino writers continue to write poetry,
short stories, novellas, novels and essays
whether these are socially committed,
gender/ethnic related or are personal in
intention or not.
• Of course the Filipino writer has become more
conscious of his art with the proliferation of writers
workshops here and abroad and the bulk of literature
available to him via the mass media including the
internet. The various literary awards such as the Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the
Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Home Life
and Panorama literary awards encourage him to
compete with his peers and hope that his creative
efforts will be rewarded in the long run.
•  With the new requirement by the Commission
on Higher Education of teaching of Philippine
Literature in all tertiary schools in the country
emphasizing the teaching of the vernacular
literature or literatures of the regions, the
audience for Filipino writers is virtually assured.
And, perhaps, a national literature finding its
niche among the literatures of the world will
not be far behind.
Philippine Literature: 2000
& Up

The famous Writers

and their work from
the year
2000 & up
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 2000 2003 2006
2002 2007
2001 2005

Poems Children’s Story 2008

Essays Fiction & non-fiction
Modernization
Poems 2009

articles Notable Authors and

Drama their Literary
Plays 2010

Contribution During
Comedy
the
books 2011
2013 2012
Horror stories
 • 2010 Ani ng Dangal Award by Her
Excellency Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo,
• 2009 South East Asian Writers
Award by the Crown Prince of
Thailand,
• 2009 Bikol Regional Artist Award
for Literary Arts by Hon. Jesse
Robredo
• Lifetime Achievement Award in
Literature by the Arejola
Foundation.
Abdon M. Balde Jr. • Three of his books won the
Chairman - Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas
National Book Award.
(Writers Union of the Philippines), • He also won the Palanca
a Founding Board Member of the Filipinas Memorial Award for Literature in
Copyright Licensing Society, Board Member of 2003.
the Wika ng Kultura at Agham, a member of the
Kabulig Bikol Writers Organization and the Albay
• He was a civil engineer by
Writers Group, and a consultant of the National profession and a self trained
Bookstore. painter.
 • published writer of all sorts of genres (from serious poetry
to horror stories for adolescents to humorous essays to
erotic novel.)
• She did the writing, lay outing and publishing of the spoof of
her school's campus paper. She sold each copy for P2.00 or $
0.05 to her classmates.
• She took up BA Creative Writing (Filipino) in the University
of the Philippines while she worked as a waitress at night.
She graduated cum laude in 2002. She immediately signed
up for MA Filipino, major in Literature. She is very optimistic
that she will finish the course soon.
• She is the youngest member of UMPIL or Unyon ng mga
Manunulat sa Pilipinas' Board of Directors in 2004-2010.
Beverly Siy or • president of Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA) in
2007-2009. LIRA is the premiere and the oldest organization
Bebang of Filipino poets who write primarily in the national
language.
• She is the Executive Officer for Membership and
Documentation of Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society
(FILCOLS), an organization of authors and publishers that
helps fight for the economic rights of copyright holders.
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 l s o n O n g
Cha r
• written 3 collections of short
fiction: Men of the East and
other Stories, Woman of
AmKaw and other stories.
Conversion and other fictions
as well as three novels An
Embarrassment of Riches,
Banyaga, A Song of War, and
Blue Angel, White Shadow
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• a renowned teacher, editor, writer, and pioneer of creative nonfiction.

Garnering honors since her colegiala days, Dr. Hidalgo has also received
such prestigious awards as Gawad Balagtas, Graphic, Free Press, Focus,
Manila Critics' Circle, British Council Grant to Cambridge, and the U.P.
President's Award for Outstanding Publication. She has been recognized
as Outstanding Thomasian Writer, Hall of Famer for the International
Publication Award, and Grand Prize winner for the Novel in the Palanca
Awards. She was Vice President for Public Affairs of the University of the
Philippines and at present is the director of the University of Sto. Tomas
Publishing House, and an associate of the UP Institute of Creative Writing.
 • has written nine books and edited
eight other titles, including the
landmark Ladlad series of gay
literature.
• He taught English and Literature at
Ateneo de Manila University before
taking early retirement to work as a
Communications Analyst at the
United Nations Development
Programme.
• He is now the Head of Research and
Desk Manager of TV5, where he also
co-hosts a weekly TV show and a
daily radio show.
•
Danton Remoto He studied at Ateneo de Manila
University, University of the
Philippines, University of Stirling
(U.K.) and Rutgers University (U.S.A.)
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Dean Francis Alfar
• a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of
speculative fiction. His work has published
both in his native Philippines and abroad,
such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Apex Book
of World SF and the Exotic Gothic series.

His literary awards include ten Don Carlos

Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature-
including the Grand Prize for Novel for
Salamanca - as well as the Manila Critics'
Circle National Book Awards for the graphic
novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion, and
the Philippines Free Press Literary Award.

He is an advocate of the literature of the

fantastic, publishing the annual Philippine
Speculative Fiction series, as well as a comic
book creator and a blogger.
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• National Book Critics Circle Awardee
• International IMPAC Dublin and Lannan
Literary Awards for The Known World
• Received a MacArthur Fellowship in
2004.
– His first collection of stories, Lost in
the City, won the PEN/Hemingway
Award and was shortlisted for the
National Book Award.
– Most recent book is All Aunt Hagar's
Children.
Edgar Calabia Samar
 author of two books of poetry,
• Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay (2006) and
• Isa Na Namang Pagtingala sa Buwan (2005).
• His 2009 novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog
[Eight Muses of the Fall],
 longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the NCCA
Writer's Prize for the Novel.
His works have also received awards from the Palanca, PBBY Salanga
Writer's Prize, Gawad Surian sa Tula and Gantimpalang Collantes. His
second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909, which won the 2011 KAL Gawad
Antonio M. Abad for Best Dissertation in UP Diliman, will be
published soon. He was invited as writer in residence to the 2010
International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. Samar
teaches Philippine Literature and Creative Writing at Ateneo de
Manila University and is now the Director of the Ateneo Institute of
Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP).
•
Eros Atalia
Unang Gantimpala sa Don Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards for Literature (2006), Gawad Soc Rodrigo
(2007), Fellow sa UP-ICW Writers Workshop for Mid
Career Writers noong 2007.
• • Taguan Pung (kalipunan ng mga akdang di pambata)
at Manwal ng mga Napapagal (kopiteybol dedbol buk)
(UST 2005)
• Peksman (mamatay ka man) Nagsisinungaling Ako
(VPE 2007)
• Ligo na U, Lapit na Me (VPE 2009)
• Wag Lang di Makaraos: 100 Flash Fiction (VPE)
•"Its Not that Complicated: Bakit hindi pa sasakupin ng
mga alien ang daigdig sa 2012“
• Lecturer, panelist, resource person at speaker sa
mga local at nasyonal na kumperensya, seminar
at workshop sa wika, linggwistika, panitikan,
malikhaing pagsulat, peryodismo at pamamaraan
ng pagtuturo.
• Kasapi ng mga organisasyon ng mga propesyonal
na manunulat at peryodista.
 ISAGANI R. CRUZ
• Former Philippine Undersecretary of
Education .ISAGANI R. CRUZ (Ph.D., University
of Maryland) is the president of The Manila
Times College and a Governor of the National
Book Development Board. He is a consultant
to the presidents of De La Salle University and
Far Eastern University.
• He belongs to the Hall of Fame of the Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Literature
and is one of the 2010 Outstanding Filipinos
(TOFIL). He writes for Philippine Star.
 J. Neil C. Garcia
• He is the author of numerous poetry collections and
works in literary and cultural criticism, including Our Lady
of the Carnival (1996), The Sorrows of Water (2000),
Kaluluwa (2001), Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty
Years (1996), Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay
Criticism (1998), Performing the Self: Occasional Prose
(2003), The Garden of Wordlessness (2005), and
Misterios and Other Poems ( 2005)
• He is currently working on a full-length book, a
postcolonial survey and analysis of Philippine poetry in
English.
• He recently edited the anthology: Aura:
• The Gay Theme in Philippine
• Fiction in English.
JOSE DALISAY JR., PhD
• has published more than 25 books of fiction
and nonfiction, winning many awards for his
writing both in the Philippines and overseas.
He has been a Fulbright, Hawthornden,
British Council, David TK Wong, Rockefeller,
and Civitella Ranieri fellow. He has lectured
on Philippine culture and politics in the US,
the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Italy,
Singapore, Malaysia, and China, among
other places. His second novel, Soledad's
Sister, was shortlisted for the inaugural Man
Asian Literary Prize in 2007.
 •

l l afa n i a Pangasinan poet, is the author of

poetry collections Balikas na

o B. V i Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan)

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San
published by the National
Commission for the Culture and the
Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New
Authors Series (2005) and
Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles
(2007). Malagilion was recognized
by the National Book Development
Board and Manila Critics Circle as
Finalist for Best Book of Poetry in
the 27th National Book Award.
Villafania is one of the 11
outstanding Pangasinenses and
recipient of the 1st ASNA Award for
Arts and Culture (Literature) during
the first-ever Agew na Pangasinan
and 430th Foundation Day of
Pangasinan in 2010.
• His recent work is entitled Pinabli &
Other Poems released in 2012
Rosario Cruz-Lucero
• is an author of short stories, personal essays,
and scholarly articles.
• Her stories and essays have won the Carlos
Palanca Memorial Awards, the Philippines Free
Press Literary Award, the Nick Joaquin Literary
Award, and the CCP Gantimpalang Ani.
• She recently won the NCCA Writer's Prize for a
third collection of short stories, entitled ‘Island
of the Disappeared'.
• She has been Fulbright Visiting Professor
twice, a Ford Foundation Country Scholar for
Southeast Asian Literature, a British Council
Center scholar to Oxford University, and a
writer-in-residence in Lavigny, Switzerland.
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RESIL B. MOJARES
• Essayist and scholar, RESIL B. MOJARES
authored such award-winning books as
Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel
(1979), Theater in Society, Society in
Theater (1985), House of Memory (1997 ),
Waiting for Mariang Makiling (2002), and
Brains of the Nation (2006).
• Long-time member of the Manila Critics
Circle, he is currently general editor of the
Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation and
professor emeritus at the University of San
Carlos in Cebu City
•.
Neni Sta.Romana Cruz
• She won the Manila Critics Circle's National Book Award
for Children's Literature for Why the Piña Has a Hundred
Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folktales About Fruits.
Daughters True, a history book she co-edited for the
centennial of her alma mater, St. Scholastica's College
won the National Book Award for Education in 2007.
• She has also written a series on Philippine pop culture:
Don't Take a Bath on a Friday: Philippine Superstitions
and Folk Beliefs, and the bestsellers, You Know You're a
Filipino If...A Pinoy Primer, and the Ngalang Pinoy: A
Primer on Filipino Wordplay. Her work has been
anthologized in over 20 other books.
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