This document provides information about several canonical authors of Philippine literature who have been recognized as National Artists, including Edith Tiempo, Bienvinido Lumbera, and Nick Joaquin. It discusses their backgrounds, major works, and honors received. Edith Tiempo is recognized as an influential writer in English who founded the Silliman Writers Workshop. Bienvinido Lumbera introduced Bagay poetry to Tagalog literature and taught at UP Diliman. Nick Joaquin was conferred as a National Artist for Literature in 1997.

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5. CANONICAL AUTHORS AND WORKS OF
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ARTISTS IN
LITERATURE
By: Ms. Irine Bonane

6. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. To know the various canonical authors in the Philippine artist
literature.
2. To appreciate the contributions of the canonical Filipino writers to
the development of national literature.
3. To create an infographic about the different canonical authors in the
Philippine Literature.

7. She was conferred the National Artist Award for
Literature in 1999.

8. EDITH L. TIEMPO
• She is a poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic.
• Born on April 22, 1919, in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, her poems are intricate verbal
transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized
pieces, “The Little Marmoset” and “Bonsai”
• She is an influential tradition in Philippine literature in English.
• she founded and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City,
which has produced some of the country’s best writers.

9. TIEMPO’S WORK
(NOVELS)
• A Blade of Fern (1978)
• His Native Coast (1979)
• The Alien Corn (1992)
• One, Tilting Leaves (1995)
• The Builder (2004)
• The Jumong (2006)

10. TIEMPO’S WORK
(SHORT STORY AND POETRY)
SHORT STORY
• Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)
POETRY
• The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)
• The Charmer's Box and Other Poet (1993)
• Marginal Annotations and Other Poems
• Commend Contend. Beyond Extensions (2010)

11. TIEMPO’S HONORS AND AWARDS
• National Artist Award for Literature (1999)
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature
• Cultural Center of the Philippines (1979, First Prize in Novel)
• Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (1988)

12. He was a National Artist of the Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon
Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications

13. BIENVENIDO LUMBERA
• is a poet, librettist, and scholar. As a poet, 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.
• Lumbera was born in Lipa on April 11, 1932.
• Lumbera received his Litt.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Santo Tomas,
Manila in 1950, and then his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University in
1968

14. LUMBERA DURING MARTIAL LAW
• Lumbera was arrested by the Philippine military in January 1974.
• Cynthia Nograles, his former student at the Ateneo de Manila University, wrote to
Gen. Fidel Ramos for his release
• Lumbera married Cynthia a few months later. In 1976, Lumbera began teaching at the
Department of Filipino and Philippine Literatures, U.P. College of Arts and Letters

15. LUMBERA’S WORKS
• An author of
Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa (poems in Filipino and English), 1993;
 Balaybay, Mga Tulang Lunot at Manibalang, 2002;
Sa Sariling Bayan, Apat na Dulang May Musika, 2004;
“Agunyas sa Hacienda Luisita,” Pakikiramay, 2004.

16. LUMBERA’S WORK
• TEXTBOOKS
Pedagogy
Philippine Literature: A History and Anthology

17. LUMBERA’S AWARDS
• National Artist, April, 2006
•Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative
Communication Arts, 1993
•Pambansang Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas, Unyon ng mga
Manunulat ng Pilipinas (UMPIL)
•National Book Awards from the Manila Critics' Circle
•Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature

18. • Conferred as the
National Artist of the
Philippines for
Literature in 1997.

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