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The Summer Solstice. "The Summer Solstice", also known as "Tatarin" or "Tadtarin", [1] is a short story written by Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin. [2][3] In addition to being regarded as one of Joaquin's most acclaimed literary works, the tale is considered to be controversial. [2][3] The story narrates a ritual performed ...
Rotor was an internationally respected writer of fiction and non-fiction in English. He is widely considered among the best Filipino short story writers of the twentieth century. He was a charter member of the Philippine Book Guild; the guild's initial publication (1937) was Rotor's The Wound and the Scar, despite Rotor's protests that someone ...
Francisco Sionil José (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2022) was a Filipino writer who was one of the most widely read in the English language. [1] [2] A National Artist of the Philippines for Literature, which was bestowed upon him in 2001, José's novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. [3]
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (PhD) Genre. Fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and screenwriting. Website. penmanila.ph. Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (born January 15, 1954) is a Filipino writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and screenwriting, including 16 Palanca Awards.
Amado Angelo "Sarge" Rodriguez Lacuesta [1] (born April 11, 1970) is a renowned Filipino writer celebrated for his short stories, novels, and screenplays.He has won many awards for his writing, among them National Book Awards, the NVM Gonzalez Award, numerous Palanca Memorial Awards [2] and Philippine Graphic Awards, and the inaugural Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award.
Reyes wrote 26 zarzuelas and 22 dramas in his career. [4] He is known as the "Father of Tagalog Plays" and as the "Father of the Tagalog Zarzuela". [5]He took a clerical job at the Tesoreria General de Hacienda as a means to avoid getting enlisted into the Spanish Army to fight against the Moros in Mindanao and Sulu.
Philippines. Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? (lit. Child, Child... how Were You Made?, [1] also known as Lea's Story) [2][3][4][5] is a novel written in Filipino by the female writer, Lualhati Bautista, released in 1988. Lea's Story centers around the life of Lea, a women's rights activist who struggles to raise her children as a single mother ...
Genre. Fiction. Poetry. Literary movement. Realism. Marcelino M. Navarra (June 2, 1914 – March 28, 1984) was a Filipino Visayan editor, poet, and writer from Cebu, Philippines. He was regarded as the father of modern Cebuano short story for his use of realism and depictions of fictionalized version of his hometown, barrio Tuyom in Carcar, Cebu.