Authors and Creation

José Rizal

Author of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo

Francisco Balagtas

Father of Tagalog poetry; author of Florante at Laura

Lualhati Bautista

Contemporary Filipino novelist; wrote Dekada '70 and Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?

Nick Joaquin

National Artist for Literature; author of The Woman Who Had Two Navels

F. Sionil José

Filipino novelist known for social realism; author of the Rosales Saga

Homer

Ancient Greek poet; author of Iliad and Odyssey

William Shakespeare

English playwright; wrote Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

Leo Tolstoy

Russian novelist; author of War and Peace

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian author; pioneer of magical realism; wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude

George Orwell

British writer; wrote political satire including 1984 and Animal Farm

Lao Tzu

Ancient Chinese philosopher; author of Tao Te Ching

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese author; wrote The Tale of Genji, considered the world's first novel