21ST LIT - CANONICAL WRITERS

Lazaro Francisco

Jose Garcia Villa

Amado Hernandez

Nick Joaquin

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez

Edith Tiempo

Francisco Sionil Jose

Virgilio Almario

Bienvenido Lumbera

Magdalena Jalandoni

Lazaro Francisco

Master of Tagalog Novel

2009

Lazaro Francisco Nartional Artist

1970

Lazaro Francisco Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature

Lazaro Francisco

masterful handling of Tagalog language and supple prose style

1973

Jose Garcia Villa National Artist

Jose Garcia Villa

reversed consocnance rhyme scheme, use of punctuations in poetry - a.k.a Comma Poet

Amado Vera Hernandez

known for criticism of social injustices i PH, imprisoned (communist)

Amado Vera Hernandez

husband of Atang de la Rama

Nick Joaquin

bets knwn for short stories and novels in English

Quijano de Manila

Nick Joaquin pen name

NVM Gonzalez

member of Board of Advisers of Likhaan, UP Creative Writing Center, founding editor of The Diliman Review

Philippine Writer’s Association

association, first president, NVM Gonzalez

1997

NVM Gonzalez Narional Artist

Edith Tiempo

fictionist, descriptive but urberdenes bu scrupuous detailing language

1999

Edith Tiempo National Artist

Francisco Sionil Jose

novels and short stories depic social underpinning of class struggles and clonialism

Rio Alma

Virgilio Almario pne name

2003

Virgilio Almario National Artist

Jan 5 2017

Virgilio Almario Chairman f National Comission for Culture and the Arts

Binevenido Lumbera

recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award for Jounalism, Literature, Creative Communicartion

Magdalena Jalandoni

most prolific writer in Hiligaynon, from Western Vis.