CEBUANO WRITERS

ANTONIO ABAD

• -ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ ABAD (ANTONIO M. ABAD)

(1894-1970) WAS A POET, FICTIONIST, PLAYWRIGHT
AND ESSAYIST FROM CEBU, PHILIPPINES, WHO
WROTE IN SPANISH WHEN SUCH WAS THE
LANGUAGE OF THE FILIPINO SOCIETY. HE WAS
CALLED AS EL GRAN NOVELISTA DE LA
LITERATURA FIL-HISPANA DESPUÉS DE RIZAL. HE
WAS A MASTER OF COSTUMBRISMO (LOCAL
COLOR), IN A PERSONAL FORM OF ANECDOTE
KNOWN AS INSTANTÁNEA OR RÁFAGA. HE WON
• NOVELS
BAKAS NG HIMAGSIKAN. MAYNILA: LIMBAGANG
MAGITING NI HONORIO LOPEZ, 1910.
•EL ÚLTIMO ROMÁNTICO, 1929, PREMIO ZOBEL.
•LA OVEJA DE NATHÁN, 1929, PREMIO ZOBEL.
•DAGOHOY, 1939, PREMIO CONCURSO LITERARIO DE
LA MANCOMUNIDAD FILIPINA.
•EL CAMPEÓN, 1939, PREMIO CONCURSO LITERARIO
DE LA MANCOMUNIDAD FILIPINA.
•LA VIDA SECRETA DE DANIEL ESPEÑA, 1960 (ONE OF
THE LAST FILIPINO NOVELS WRITTEN IN SPANISH).
• MARTIN ABELLANA
• MARTIN ABELLANA (1904–1989) WAS A FILIPINO
VISAYAN WRITER. HE WAS A TEACHER BY
PROFESSION. IN THE YEARS 1956 TO 1958, HE
WAS PRESIDENT OF THE LUDABI, A GROUP OF
WRITERS IN CEBUANO. HIS NOVELS ARE
CHARACTERIZED BY A CONCERN FOR THE
WORKING CLASS. ABELLANA IS ONE OF THE
CEBUANO WRITERS FEATURED BY NATIONAL
ARTIST RESIL MOJARES IN HIS 1975 BOOK
“CEBUANO LITERATURE.”
 NOVELS

•KAULIT SA KALIPAY
•ANG KALAYO SA SULAD
•TULISOK SA TANLAG
•BASUNI SA KATINGALA
•AWIT SA GUGMA
•KINABUHI
ONOFRE ABELLANOSA

• ONOFRE ABELLANOSA JUNE 12

1913 (1913 – 1974) WAS A
FILIPINO VISAYAN WRITER OF
SHORT STORIES AND PLAYS.
 HIS WORKS

ANG KAGABHION (SHORT STORY), PUBLISHED

IN BISAYA, 1946.
•FLORIKI (PLAY), 1930.
• •GAHOM SA LATIGO (PLAY), 1965.
 RAMON D. ABELLANOSA
• RAMÓN D. ABELLANOSA BORN AS RAMÓN
ABASOLO ABELLANOSA, (1907 – DECEMBER 2,
1983) WAS A FILIPINO VISAYAN POLITICAL
JOURNALIST, MINOR POLITICIAN,
BUSINESSMAN, AND WRITER. HE WAS BEST
KNOWN FOR HIS PLAYS. HE WAS THE SON OF
BALDOMERO ABELLANOSA AND BROTHER OF
ONOFRE. HE WAS JOURNALIST AT THE
PHILIPPINE ADVERTISER AND ANG
TIGMANTALA.
 HIS PLAYS

GANGHAAN SA LUBONG, 1926.

•BINUNO SA PALAD, 1926.
• •DORING
TOMISTOKLES ADLAWAN

Temistokles Adlawan was a

contemporary Cebuano poet and
short story writer who often writes
with irreverent humor usually
associated with Cebuano folk. Some
of his writings expresses a greater
sensitivity to gender issues.
POETRY

LILI (PEEP), 1987.

• MAMAMASOL
SHORT STORY

• ANG GIDAK-ON SA DAGAT, 1966.

 AWARD AND RECOGNITION

•Posthumous award, Bathalan-ong Halad sa

Dagang (Bathalad) Sugbo, August 24, 2019
•Taboan literary award, National Committee on
Literary Arts, February 12, 2010
•2nd CCP Literature grant for the short story
entitled Tingog sa Kitarang Bagol and Program,
Cultural Center of the Philippines, February
28, 1989