LESSON 3-CANONICAL AUTHORS

Canonical

collection of works considered representative of a certain genre and period.

Canonical Authors

writers whose works have been well appreciated and considered representatives of certain genres of literature.

Francisco Balagtas

He was a prominent Filipino poet during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on Filipino literature.

Lualhati Bautista

She wrote about strong female characters who questioned male authority and patriarchal values in society.

Edith L. Tiempo

She was one of the finest Filipino writers in English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight.

Rolando S. Tinio

He was the sole inventor of "Taglish" in Philippine poetry.

Lualhati Bautista

She also criticized in her works the atrocities committed during the martial law regime of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

Edith L. Tiempo

she founded and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the country’s best writers.

Rolando S. Tinio

He revived traditional Filipino drama, re-staging old theater forms like the ‘Sarsuwela’ and opening a treasure-house of contemporary Western drama.

Nicomedes “Nick” Joaquin

He was a Filipino writer and journalist best known for his short stories and novels in the English language.

Nicomedes “Nick” Joaquin

He has also enriched the English language with critics coining “Joaquinesque” to describe his baroque Spanish-flavored English or his reinventions of English based on Filipinisms.

Quijano de Manila

Nicomedes “Nick” Joaquin also wrote using the pen name:

Francisco Sionil Jose

He was a publisher, lecturer on cultural issues, and the founder of the Philippine chapter of the international organization PEN(Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists)"

Francisco Sionil Jose

He has been on the forefront of Philippine literature, with his works having been translated into 22 languages, including Korean, Indonesian, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch.

Jose Protacio Mercado Y Alonso Realonda

He became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.

Jose Garcia Villa

He was considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language.

Doveglion

Pen name used by Jose Garcia Villa which was a combination of the words “dove,”“eagle,” and “lion”.

Jose Garcia Villa

He introduced the reversed consonance rhyme scheme, including the comma poems that made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way.

Amado V. Hernandez

He was a poet, playwright, and novelist, and is among the Filipino writers who practiced “committed art”.

Amado V. Hernandez

In his view, the function of the writer is to act as the conscience of society and to affirm the greatness of the human spirit in the face of inequity and oppression.

Amado V. Hernandez

One of his contribution was the development of Tagalog prose is considerable — he stripped Tagalog of its ornate character and wrote in prose closer to the colloquial than the “official” style permitted.

Bienvenido Lumbera

He introduced to Tagalog literature what is now known as “Bagay poetry”, a landmark aesthetic tendency that has helped to change the vernacular poetic tradition.

Bienvenido Lumbera

He pioneered the creative fusion of fine arts and popular imagination. The RMAF (Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation) Board of Trustees recognizes him in asserting the central place of the vernacular tradition in framing a national identity for modern Filipinos.

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzales

a fictionist, essayist, poet, and teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in rural, urban landscapes

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzales

He became U.P.’s International-Writer-In-Residence and a member of the Board of Advisers of the U.P. Creative Writing Center. In 1987, U.P. conferred on him the Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, its highest academic recognition.

Virgilio S. Almario

He also known as “Rio Alma”, a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manage.

Virgilio S. Almario

He spearheaded the second successful modernist movement in Filipino poetry.

Virgilio S. Almario

Many Filipino writers have come under his wing in the literary workshops that he founded: Galian sa Arte at Tula (GAT) and Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA).

Virgilio S. Almario

He became the Chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.

Francisco Arcellana Gagalangin

He was a writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist, and teacher, and one of the most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English.

Francisco Arcellana Gagalangin

The first award in art criticism from the Art Association of the Philippines in 1954. The Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award from the city government of Manila in 1981. The Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for English fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipino (UMPIL).