JAN ALBERT P.

RELOZA

LITERATURE IN THE PHILIPPINES WAS

DEVELOPED AND PRESERVED BY NATIVE
FILIPINO.
ISIDRO MARFORI
•  SIYA AY NAPABANTOG DAHIL SA APAT NA AKLAT NG TULA NA KANYANG
NAISULAT: AROMAS DE ENSUEÑO (1915); CADENCIAS (1917); BAJO EL
YUGO AT EL DOLOR DE AMOR (1933).
ENRIQUE FERNÁNDEZ LUMBA
• ONE OF THESE WRITERS WAS ENRIQUE FERNÁNDEZ LUMBA. HE WAS BORN
IN 1899 IN INTRAMUROS, MANILA. HE WON THE PREMIO ZÓBEL IN 1954 FOR
HIS WORK HISPANOFILIA FILIPINA, AN ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS AND POEMS
THAT HE HAD WRITTEN AND COLLECTED IN THE COURSE OF OVER THREE
DECADES.
CECELIO APOSTOL FERNANDO
• CECILIO APOSTOL WROTE POEMS DEDICATED TO RIZAL, JACINTO, MABINI
AND ALL OTHER HEROES BUT HIS POEM DEDICATED TO RIZAL IS
CONSIDERED THE BEST POEM IN PRAISE OF THE HERO OF BAGUMBAYAN.
GUERERO JESUS BALMORI
• BALMORI, WHO PUBLISHED HIS FIRST POETRY ANTHOLOGY, “RIMAS
MALAYAS” [BALTORI 1904] (“MALAY VERSES”) DURING HIS LATE TEENS,
AMAZED THE FIL-HISPANIC LITERARY WORLD WITH A “GRAND SLAM” IN
1908 WHEN HE WON ALL THREE PRIZES — FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD.
FLAVIO ZARAGOZA CANO AND FRANCISCO ZARAGOZA
ANG SAYA THANKYOUU FOR LISTENING
MWAMWA.