11 21st Lit: Q2L1-2

F. Sionil Jose

Dr. Jose P. Rizal influenced his life and most of his works

F. Sionil Jose

Most widely read Filipino writer in English whose novels and short stories depict a wide scope of social underpinnings and struggles of the Filipino masses 

F. Sionil Jose

The country’s most influential living writer employing realism through narrative techniques and styles

Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communications

Pablo Neruda Centennial Award

Accomplishments of F Sionil Jose

F Sionil Jose

He was conferred a National Artist for Literature in 2001

F Sionil Jose

Founded the Philippine PEN

Philippine PEN

an organization of poets, playwrights, and novelists

F Sionil Jose

He opened Solidaridad Publishing House (1965), founded Solidarity (1966)

Solidarity

a magazine that produces content mainly focused on "current affairs, ideas, and the arts"

F Sionil Jose

Officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters (2014)

Rosales Saga

The God Stealer

Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short Stories

Literary works of F Sionil Jose

Rosales Saga

• A series of novels set from the Spanish colonial period to the proclamation of Martial Law (1970s)

• includes the following novels: Po-on, Tree, The Pretenders, Mass, and My Brother, My Executioner.

The God Stealer

• A short story about the friendship of Philip Latak, an Ifugao, and Sam Christie, an American who wanted to buy bulol, a sculpture of an Ifugao god.

The God Stealer

Depicts the relationship and truths about the colonizer and the colony.

Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short Stories

A compilation of short stories about pre-Hispanic Philippine society

Virgilio S. Almario

a Filipino artist known for his poetry and literary criticism

Rio Alma

Virgilio Almario’s pen name

Virgilio S Almario

He was proclaimed National Artist for Literature in 2003

Virgilio S. Almario

He defines modernist poetry as sparing, suggestive, and restrained in emotion; its vocabulary and subject are immersed in the now

Virgilio S. Almario

He founded the Galian sa Arte at Tula (GAT) with Teo Antonio and Mike Bigornia (1970), and the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA)

Anyo (LIRA)

an organization of poets who write in Filipino (1985)

Virgilio S Almario

Chairman of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) (1986-1982)

Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL)

the biggest umbrella organization of writers

Virgilio S Almario

Executive Director of the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) (1998-2001)

Virgilio S Almario

Chairman of the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF) in 2013

Makinasyon at Ilang Tula

Peregrinasyon at Iba Pang Tula

Doktrinang Anakpawis

Mga Retraro at Rekwerdo

Muli sa Kandungan ng Lupa

Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina

Taludtod at Talinghaga

Balagtasismo Versus Modernismo

Literary Works of Almario

Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina

The first book of literary criticism in Filipino

Taludtod at Talinghaga

Critical work that tackles the traditional Tagalog prosody

Balagtasismo Versus Modernismo

Presents the two main directions of Tagalog Poetry

The Dawn

weekly organ of the University of the East.