NICANOR ABELARDO

Life
Nicanor Abelardo was born in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan to Valentin
Abelardo and Placida Santa Ana.[1] His mother belonged to a family of artists in
Guagua, the Henson. He was introduced to music when he was five years old
when his father taught him the solfeggio and the banduria. Abelardo completed
his first composition, a waltz entitled "Ang Unang Buko" dedicated to his
grandmother, at the age of eight. By the age of thirteen, he was playing at saloons
and cabarets in Manila, and by fifteen, he was teaching at barrio schools in San
Ildefonso and San Miguel in Bulacan.

N. Abelardo Hall (UP Diliman).

In 1916, Abelardo entered the University of the Philippines Conservatory of
Music, taking courses under Guy F. Harrison and Robert Scholfield. During his
studies, he composed the melody of the university's official anthem, U.P. Naming
Mahal. After earning a teacher's certificate in science and composition in 1921, he
was appointed head of the composition department at the Conservatory in 1924.
Years later, he ran a boarding school for young musicians, among which were
Antonino Buenaventura, Alfredo Lozano, and Lucino Sacramento.
In the 1930s he traveled to Chicago to study at the Chicago Musical College under
Wesley LaViolette. There he was influenced by the modern composers of the
time, such as Hindemith and Schoenberg, and this affected his compositional style
drastically - from the romantic sounding style of his kundiman to a dissonant
sounding modernist style as evident in his works he produced there such as the
Cinderella Overture and the Violin Sonata. His work "Cinderella Overture" earned
him the Wesley LaViolette Scholarship Award worth $1,000 in 1931.
However, Abelardo returned to Manila in 1932 and died there a few years later in
1934 at the age of 41, leaving behind a collection of roughly 140 compositions.[2]

Legacy
Nicanor Abelardo, along with Francisco Santiago, is known for redefining the
kundiman, bringing the form to art-song status. Abelardo's kundiman songs, such
as "Mutya ng Pasig", "Nasaan ka, Irog?", and "Bituing Marikit" proved to be
popular among the Filipino people, and his compositions are regularly played in
concerts in the Philippines.

Nicanor's relative Richard Abelardo made a film in 1950 called "Mutya ng Pasig"
which is based on Nicanor's kundiman of the same name.[3]

The main theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the building
housing the College of Music in UP Diliman (Abelardo Hall) were named in his
honor and memory.[4]

Selected Works[5][6][7]
Kundiman
Mutya ng Pasig
Nasaan Ka Irog?
Bituing Marikit
Kundiman ng Luha
Himutok
Pahimakas
Kung hindi man
Magbalik ka, Hirang.
Ikaw rin
Nassan ang aking puso?
Sa' yong Kandungan
Other Vocal works
Requiem Mass (1934)
U.P. Naming Mahal (U.P. Beloved)
Mi Ultimo Adios, for chorus and orchestra
Ang Aking Bayan
Naku... Kenkoy!, foxtrot
Amorosa, foxtrot
Ave maria, for soprano
Salve regina, for Soprano and Baritone (1932)
Stabat Mater, for soprano (1924)
Opera, sarswelas, and other works for stage
Florante at Laura, opera (1934) unfinished
Akibat, operetta (1913)
Kawanggawa, sarswela (1918)
Lucila, sarswela (1911)
Tayo'y Pakasal na, sarswela (1930)
Dakilang Punglo, sarswela
Orchestral Works
Cinderella Overture (1931)
Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1931)
Academic Overture (1921)
Mountain Suite (1921)
Symphony (1934) unfinished
Concertos
Piano Concerto in B-flat minor (1923)
Chamber and Solo music
Cavatina, for violin and piano, Op. 7 (1921)
Sonata for violin and piano (1931)
Panoramas, for Flute, Violin, Viola, Celesta, and Piano (1932)
Flower and the Bird: Caprice for Flute, Violin, and Piano
String Quartet no. 1 in F Major, Op. 1 no. 1 (1921)
Sonata for String Quartet (1931)
Piano Sonata in G Major (1921)
Nocturne no. 1 for solo piano (1921)
Romanza, for violin and piano (1921)
Ang unang buko, Waltz for piano (1901)
Visayan Caprice, for Violin, Cello, and Piano
Discography
1937 - Nasaan ka, Irog (music)
1937 - Bituing Marikit (Sampaguita) (music)
2013 - The Songs of Nicanor Abelardo,[8] featuring baritone Joseph Legaspi, tenor
William Lim, soprano Katrina Saporsantos, and pianist Benjamin Dia.
Further reading
E. Epistola, Nicanor Abelardo, The Man and the Artist, 1996.
A. Ocampo, The life and music of Maestro Nicanor Abelardo, 1989
Notes
"Nicanor Avelardo Baptism (Registros parroquiales, 1821-1946)". FamilySearch.
12 February 1893. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
"Nicanor Abelardo". Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 1
February 2013.
"Mutya ng Pasig (1950)". IMDB.
"MISSION OF THE COLLEGE". Archived from the original on 2010-12-15. Retrieved
1 February 2013.
Abelardo, Nicanor. (2015). In V. Almario (Ed.), Sagisag Kultura (Vol 1). Manila:
National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Retrieved from
https://philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/abelardo-nicanor/
"Nicanor Santa Ana Abelardo".
(2019). CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (Vol. 7: Music). Manila: Cultural Center
of the Philippines.
"The Songs of Nicanor Abelardo". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014.
Retrieved 1 February 2013.
External links
First Nocturne - on YouTube [1]
Nicanor Abelardo bio
Language Poetry and Drama in the Art Music of Nicanor Abelardo

Estrella Alfon
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Estrella Alfon
Born July 18, 1917
Cebu, Philippine Islands
Died December 28, 1983 (aged 66)
Estrella D. Alfon (July 18, 1917 – December 28, 1983) was a well-known prolific
Filipina author who wrote in English. Because of continued poor health, she could
manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then
became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the
privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing
Center. She died in the year 1983 at the age of 66.

Personal
Estrella Alfon was born in Cebu City in 1917. Unlike other writers of her time, she
did not come from the intelligentsia. Her parents were shopkeepers in Cebu.[1]
She attended college, and studied medicine. When she was mistakenly diagnosed
with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, she resigned from her pre-medical
education, and left with an Associate of Arts degree.

Alfon has several children: Alan Rivera, Esmeralda "Mimi" Rivera, Brian Alfon,
Estrella "Twinkie" Alfon, and Rita "Daday" Alfon (deceased). She has 10
grandchildren.

Her youngest daughter, was a stewardess for Saudi Arabian Airlines, and was part
of the Flight 163 crew on August 19, 1980, when an in-flight fire forced the
aircraft to land in Riyadh. A delayed evacuation resulted in the death of everyone
aboard the flight.

Alfon died on December 28, 1983, following a heart attack suffered on-stage
during Awards night of the Manila Film Festival.

Professional
She was a student in Cebu when she first published her short stories, in
periodicals such as Graphic Weekly Magazine, Philippine Magazine, and the
Sunday Tribune.[2]

She was a storywriter, playwright, and journalist. In spite of being a proud

Cebuana, she wrote almost exclusively in English. She published her first story,
“Grey Confetti”, in the Graphic in 1935.[3]

She was the only female member of the Veronicans, an avant garde group of
writers in the 1930s led by Francisco Arcellana and H.R. Ocampo, she was also
regarded as their muse. The Veronicans are recognized as the first group of
Filipino writers to write almost exclusively in English and were formed prior to the
World War II. She is also reportedly the most prolific Filipina writer prior to World
War II. She was a regular contributor to Manila-based national magazines, she
had several stories cited in Jose Garcia Villa’s annual honor rolls.

“ Alfon was one writer who unashamedly drew from her own real-life
experiences. In some stories, the first-person narrator is “Estrella” or “Esther.”
She is not just a writer, but one who consciously refers to her act of writing the
stories. In other stories, Alfon is still easily identifiable in her first-person
reminiscences of the past: evacuation during the Japanese occupation;
estrangement from a husband; life after the war. In the Espeleta stories, Alfon
uses the editorial “we” to indicate that as a member of that community, she
shares their feelings and responses towards the incidents in the story. But she
sometimes slips back to being a first-person narrator. The impression is that
although she shares the sentiments of her neighbors, she is still a distinct
personality who detaches herself from the scene in order to understand it better.
This device of separating herself as narrator from the other characters is
contained within the larger strategy of ?distantiation? that of the writer from her
strongly autobiographical material. - Thelma E. Arambulo[4] ”
In the 1950s, her short story, "Fairy Tale for the City", was condemned by the
Catholic League of the Philippines as being "obscene".[3] She was even brought to
court on these charges. While many of her fellow writers did stand by her, many
did not. These events hurt her deeply.[1]

In spite of having only an A.A. degree, she was eventually appointed as a

professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, Manila. She was
a member of the U.P. Writers Club, she held the National Fellowship in Fiction
post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center in 1979.[5]

She would also serve on the Philippine Board of Tourism in the 1970s.

Achievements
1940: A collection of her early short stories, “Dear Esmeralda,” won Honorable
Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award.
1961-1962: Four of her one-act plays won all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play
Writing Contest: “Losers Keepers” (first prize), “Strangers” (second prize), “Rice”
(third prize), and “Beggar” (fourth prize).
1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for “With Patches of Many
Hues.”
1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress".[6]
1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center.
Palanca Awards
Estrella Alfon has won the Palanca Awards a number of times:[7]

Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place, 1960)

With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962)
Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963)
The Knitting Straw, One-act Play, (Third place, 1968)
The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)
Stories
Magnificence and Other Stories (1960)
Stories of Estrella Alfon (1994) (published posthumously)
Servant Girl (short story)
Influence
“ Estrella Alfon writes about everyday life, but she captures the details in this
dazzling, intense light. She could write about the ordinary and make it
extraordinary. She could write about a day on the farm or a picnic with friends or
a poor laundry woman wishing that her life were different because she was being
abused by her mistress. They were very simple stories about ordinary people,
whose lives we don't know until she uncovers them in the stories. I was just
hooked. Whatever designs my mother may have had, they worked. I feel so much
more fulfilled because I had that early gift. - Luisa Igloria interview[8] ”
Criticisms
Alfon was at times charged with sloppy writing and suspected of writing for
money.[3]

Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet,
essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 6, 1916. Arcellana already had
ambitions of becoming a writer early in his childhood. His actual writing, however, started when he
became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. Arcellana
continued writing in various school papers at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Later on he
received a Rockefeller Grant and became a fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and
at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference from 1956– 1957.[2][3]
He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino short story in English. Arcellana
pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form within Filipino literature.
His works are now often taught in tertiary-level syllabi in the Philippines. Many of his works were
translated into Tagalog, Malaysian, Russian, Italian, and German. Arcellana won 2nd place in the
1951 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with his short story, The Flowers of May.
Fourteen of his short stories were also included in Jose Garcia Villa's Honor Roll from 1928 to 1939.
His major achievements included 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, and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for English fiction from the Unyon ng mga
Manunulat sa Pilipino (UMPIL) in 1988.
The University of the Philippines conferred upon Arcellana a doctorate in humane letters, honoris
causa in 1989. Francisco Arcellana was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines in Literature on
June 23, 1990 by then Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino.[4]
In 2009, or seven years after his death, his family came out with a book to pay tribute to National
Artist for Literature Arcellana. The book entitled Franz is a collection of essays gathered by the
Arcellana family from colleagues, friends, students and family members, including fellow National
Artist Nick Joaquin, Butch Dalisay, Recah Trinidad, Jing Hidalgo, Gemino Abad, Romina
Gonzalez, Edwin Cordevilla, Divina Aromin, Doreen Yu, Danton Remoto, Jose Esteban Arcellana
and others.[5]

Arcellana is buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

Arcellana died in 2002. As a National Artist, he received a state funeral at the Libingan ng mga
Bayani.
His grandson Liam Hertzsprung performed a piano concert in 2006 dedicated to him.
Arcellana's published books include:

 Selected Stories (1962)

 Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977)
 The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990).

Liwayway A. Arceo (1924–1999) was a multi-awarded Tagalog fictionist, journalist, radio

scriptwriter and editor from the Philippines.
Arceo authored a number of well-received novels, such as Canal de la Reina (1973)
and Titser (1995). She also published collections of short stories such as Ina, Maybahay, Anak at iba
pa, Mga Maria, Mga Eva, Ang Mag-anak na Cruz (1990), and Mga Kuwento ng Pag-ibig (1997).
Most of her books were published by Ateneo de Manila University Press and The University of the
Philippines Press. Arceo's story, Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa was placed second in the Japanese
Imperial Government-sanctioned Pinakamabuting Maikling Katha ng 1943 (The Best Short Stories of
1943).
Arceo made her mark as a lead actress in Tatlong Maria, a Japanese/Philippine film produced
during World War II. The film was produced by two movie companies; X'Otic Picturesof
the Philippines and Eiga Hekusa of Japan, in 1944. She also acted in Ilaw ng Tahanan, a long-
running radio serial. Ilaw ng Tahanan became a television soap opera aired on RPN 9, during the
late 1970s.
Arceo's short story Lumapit, Lumayo ang Umaga was later turned into an award-winning film by
National Artist Ishmael Bernal in 1975. Filipina thespian Elizabeth Oropesareceived a FAMAS Best
Actress Award in 1976 for her role in the film.
Arceo received a Carlos Palanca Award for Short Story in Filipino (Filipino (Tagalog) Division) in
1962; a Japan Foundation Visiting Fellowship in 1992; a Gawad CCP for Literature given by
the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1993; a Doctorate on Humane Letters, an honoris causa,
from the University of the Philippines in 1991; the Catholic Authors Award from the Asian Catholic
Publishers in 1990, and the Gawad Balagtas Life Achievement Award for Fiction from the Unyon ng
mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (Writers Union of the Philippines, or UMPIL) in 1988. In 1999, Liwayway
Arceo received a Philippine National Centennial Commission award for her pioneering and
exemplary contributions in the field of literature.
After her death, Filipino writers paid tribute to Liwayway A. Arceo during a memorial service held at
the Loyola Memorial Chapel in Guadalupe, Makati City, Philippines on December 3, 1999.

Filmography[edit]
 1944 - Tatlong Maria ("Three Sisters")
BOOKS
 TITSER
 CANAL DE REINA
 Francisco Balagtas
 Poet

 Description
 Francisco Balagtas, also known as Francisco Baltazar, was a prominent Filipino poet,
and is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on
Filipino literature. The famous epic Florante at Laura is regarded as his defining
work. Wikipedia
 Born: 2 April 1788, Balagtas
 Died: 20 February 1862, Orion
 Full name: Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz
 Books: Florante at Laura, Florante at Laura: Large Print
 Education: Colegio de San Jose (1812), Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Ateneo de
Manila University
 Children: Victor Baltazar y Tiambeng

 Lualhati Bautista
 Filipino novelist

 Description
 Lualhati Torres Bautista is one of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the history of
contemporary Philippine literature. Her novels include Dekada '70, Bata, Bata, Pa'no Ka
Ginawa?, and ‘GAPÔ. Wikipedia
 Born: 2 December 1945 (age 73 years), Tondo
 Awards: Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story in Filipino, Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards for Novel in Filipino
 Movies: Dekada '70, Lea's Story, Bulaklak sa City Jail, Maricris Sioson Story:
Japayuki, Rizal in Dapitan
 Education: Florentino Torres High School (1962), Lyceum of the Philippines University
 Parents: Gloria Torres, Esteban Bautista

BOOKS
 Dekada '70 (1983)
 ‘GAPÔ (1988)
  Bata, Bata… Pa'no Ka Ginawa? (1988)
 Desaparesidos (2007)
 Buwan, buwan, hulugan mo ako ng sundang: dalawang dekada ng maiikling kuwento
(1991)

 Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

 Author
 ceciliabrainard.com

 Description
 Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an author and editor of 20 books. She co-founded
PAWWA or Philippine American Women Writers and Artists; and also founded Philippine
American Literary House. Wikipedia
 Born: 1947 (age 72 years), Cebu City
 Spouse: Lauren Brainard
 Education: Saint Theresa's College of Cebu, Miriam College Higher Education Unit
 Organization founded: Philippine American Women Writers and Artists

Book:

Carlos Bulosan
Novelist

Description
Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet who immigrated
to America on July 1, 1930. He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in
the United States.Wikipedia

Early life and immigration[edit]

Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in the Philippines in Binalonan, Pangasinan. There is
considerable debate around his actual birth date, as he himself used several dates, but 1911 is
generally considered the most reliable answer, based on his baptismalrecords, but according to the
late Lorenzo Duyanen Sampayan, his childhood playmate and nephew, Carlos was born on
November 2, 1913. Most of his youth was spent in the countryside as a farmer. It is during his youth
that he and his family were economically impoverished by the rich and political elite, which would
become one of the main themes of his writing. His home town is also the starting point of his famous
semi-autobiographical novel, America is in the Heart.
Following the pattern of many Filipinos during the American colonial period, he left for America on
July 22, 1930 at age 17, in the hope of finding salvation from the economic depression of his home.
He never again saw his Philippine homeland. Upon arriving in Seattle, he met with racism and was
forced to work in low paying jobs. He worked as a farmworker, harvesting grapes and asparagus,
and doing other types of hard work in the fields of California. He also worked as a dishwasher with
his brother and Lorenzo in the famous Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo.
In 1936, Bulosan suffered from tuberculosis and was taken to the Los Angeles County hospital.
There, he underwent three operations and spent two years mostly in the convalescent ward. During
his long stay in the hospital, Bulosan spent his time constantly reading and writing.[3]

Labor movement work[edit]

Bulosan was active in labour movement along the Pacific coast of the United States and edited the
1952 Yearbook for International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 37, a predominantly Filipino
American cannery trade union based in Seattle.

Writing[edit]
There is some controversy surrounding the accuracy of events recorded within America Is in the
Heart. He is celebrated for giving a post-colonial, Asian immigrant perspective to the labor
movement in America and for telling the experience of Filipinos working in the U.S. during the 1930s
and '40s. In the 1970s, with a resurgence in Asian/Pacific Islander American activism, his
unpublished writings were discovered in a library in the University of Washington leading to
posthumous releases of several unfinished works and anthologies of his poetry.
His other novels include The Laughter of My Father, which were originally published as short
sketches, and the posthumously published The Cry and the Dedication which detailed
the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines.
One of his most famous essays, published in March 1943, was chosen by The Saturday Evening
Post to accompany its publication of the Norman Rockwell painting Freedom from Want, part of a
series based on Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech.[4] Maxim Lieber was his literary
agent in 1944.

Death and legacy[edit]

As a labor organizer and socialist writer, he was blacklisted. Denied a means to provide for himself,
his later years were of flight and hardship, probably including alcoholism.[5] He died
in Seattle suffering from malnutrition[6] and an advanced stage of bronchopneumonia. He is buried
at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle.
Upon his death, union leader Chris Mensalvas, wrote the following obituary: "Carlos Bulosan, 30
years old (sic), died 11 September1956, Seattle. Birthplace: Philippines, Address: Unknown;
Occupation: Writer; Hobby: Famous for his jungle salad served during Foreign-Born Committee
dinners. Estate: One typewriter, a twenty-year old suit, unfinished manuscripts, worn out sock;
Finances: Zero. Beneficiary: His people."[7]
His works did not immediately garner widespread appreciation. For two decades after his death, his
work was largely forgotten,[8] until a group of young Asian Americans rediscovered his works and led
to the republication of America is in the Heart in 1973.[9]
Bulosan's works and legacy is heralded in a permanent exhibition, "The Carlos Bulosan Memorial
Exhibit," at the Eastern Hotel in Seattle's International District. Its centerpiece mural is titled "Secrets
of History"[10] and was created by Eliseo Art Silva.[11]

Works[edit]
 America Is in the Heart
 The Laughter of My Father
 The Cry and the Dedication
 My Father's Tragedy
 The Romance of Magno Rubio
 If You Want To Know What We Are
 My Father goes to Court

Philippine literature is literature associated with the Philippines from prehistory, through its colonial
legacies, and on to the present.
Pre-Hispanic Philippine literature was actually epics passed on from generation to generation,
originally through an oral tradition. However, wealthy families, especially in Mindanao, were able to
keep transcribed copies of these epics as family heirloom. One such was the Darangen, an epic of
the Maranaos.

Post-colonial literature[edit]
The post-colonial literature in the Philippines exhibited several characteristics. The first covered a
literary period typified by experimentation with a new language, particularly the forms and imagery
that are offered by English and American literature.[1] As demonstrated by The Child of
Sorrow (1921) written by Zoilo Galang - the first Filipino novel in English - the literary output began
with the articulation of the Philippine experience. The early writings in English were characterized by
melodrama, unreal language, and unsubtle emphasis on local color.[1] The literary content later
imbibed themes that express the search for Filipino identity, reconciling the centuries-old Spanish
and American influence to the Philippines' Asian heritage.[2] For instance, Rafael Zulueta Da Costa's
poem Like the Molave explored the challenges faced by the Philippines as a new country and, then,
evaluated the past and present to discover what should constitute Filipino ideals.[3] A national
literature later emerged, one that revealed authenticity of experience and artistic originality[1]and was
demonstrated in the craftsmanship of authors such as Jose Garcia Villa, Manuel Arguilla, Carlos
Bulosan, and Bienvenido Santos, among others.

Modern literature (20th and 21st century)[edit]

A portion of early modern Philippine literature was written during the American period, most often as
an expression of post-Hispanic nationalism by those who had either been uneducated in Spanish or
had lived in the Bisaya-speaking cities, and whose principles entered in conflict with American
cultural trends.[citation needed] Such period of Spanish literary production—i.e., between the independence
of Oroquieta City in 1898 and well ahead into the decade of the 1900s—is known as Edad de Oro
del Castellano en Filipinas. Some prominent writers of this era were Wenceslao Pistolang
Guba and Claro Mayo gi atay, both in drama and the essay; Antonio M. Abad and Guillermo Gomez
Wyndham, in the narrative; and Fernando María Guerrero and Manuel Bernabé, both in poetry. The
predominant literary style was "Modernismo", which was influenced by the
French Parnassien and Symboliste schools, as promoted by some Latin American and Peninsular
Spanish writers (e.g. the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, the Mexican Amado Putcha, the
Spaniard Franucisco Villaespesa, and the Peruvian José Santos Chocano as major model).

National Artists for Literature[edit]

The Order of National Artists of the Philippines is conferred to Filipinos with "exquisite contribution to
Philippine art". The artists are chosen by the National Commission for Culture and the
Arts (Philippines) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The Order is given by the President of
the Philippines.
Awardees of the National Artist of the Philippines Order, for Literature, include:

 1976 – Nick Joaquin, National Artist for Literature

 1982 – Carlos P. Romulo, National Artist for Literature
 1990 – Francisco Arcellana, National Artist for Literature
 1997 – Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez, National Artist for Literature
 1997 – Rolando S. Tinio, National Artist for Theater and Literature
 1997 – Levi Celerio, National Artist for Music and Literature
 1999 – Edith L. Tiempo, National Artist for Literature
 2001 - F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature
 2003 – Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature
 2003 – Alejandro Roces, National Artist for Literature
 2006 –*2009 – Lazaro A. Francisco, National Artist for Literature
 2014 – Cirilo F. Bautista, National Artist for Literature and Died in 2016

Notable Philippine literary authors[edit]

 Nicanor Abelardo (1893-1934)
 Estrella Alfon (1917-1983)
 Francisco Arcellana (1916-2002)
 Liwayway A. Arceo (1920-1999)
 Francisco Balagtas (1788-1862)
 Lualhati Bautista (b. 1945)
 Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (b. 1947)
 Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
 Gilda Cordero-Fernando (b. 1932)
 Genoveva Edroza-Matute (1915-2009)
 Zoilo Galang
 N. V. M. Gonzalez (1915-1999)
 Nick Joaquin (1917-2004)
 F. Sionil José (b. 1924)
 Peter Solis Nery (b. 1969)
 Ambeth R. Ocampo (b. 1961)
 José Rizal (1861-1896)
 Jose Garcia Villa (1908-1997)

Notable Hiligaynon and Ilonggo literary authors[edit]

 Stevan Javellana (1918-1977)
 Magdalena Jalandoni (1891-1978)
 Peter Solis Nery (b. 1969)
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