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- 1. Philippine National Artists for Literature MISSPAULENE GALIMBA GACUSAN
- 2. What is aNational Artist? • A national artist is a Filipino citizen who has been given the rank and title of National artist in recognition of his or her significant contributions to the developmen t of Philippine Arts and Letters.
- 3. What is theOrder of National Artists • Orden ng Gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining • A rank, title, and a wearable award that represents the highest national recognition given to Filipinos who have distinct contributions in the field of arts and letters
- 4. The Insignia ofthe Order of National Artists • Composed of a Grand Collar featuring circular links portraying the arts, and eight- pointed conventionalized sunburst suspended from a sampaguita wreath in green and white enamel.
- 5. The Insignia ofthe Order of National Artists • Medallion divided into three equal portions, red, blue and white , recalling the Philippine flag.
- 6. The Insignia ofthe Order of National Artists • Three stylized letter Ks – the KKK stands for the CPP’smotto: Katotohanan, Kabutihan, kagandahan. – First Lady Imelda Marcos,
- 7. Honors and Privileges 1. Therank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the President of the Philippines.
- 8. Honors and Privileges 2. Theinsigniaof a National Artist and a citation
- 9. Honors and Privileges 3. Lifetimeemolument and material and physical benefits comparable in value to those received by the highest officers of the land such as:
- 10. Honors and Privileges a. Cashaward of 100, 000 pesos for living awardees of 75,00 0 awardees, pesos for payable to b. Cash award posthumou s legal heirs
- 11. Honors and Privileges c.A monthlylife pension, medical and hospitalization benefits d.Life insurancecoveragefor Awardees who are still insurable
- 12. Honors and Privileges e. Astate funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani f. A place of honor
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- 15. AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ • September13, 1903 – May 24, 1970 • “Makata ng Mangagawa” • Amado V. Hernandez, poet, playwright, and novelist, is among the Filipino writers who practiced “committedart”.
- 16. AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ • Inhis 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.
- 17. AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ • Hernandez’scontribution to 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” stylepermitted.
- 18. AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ • Hisnovel Mga Ibong Mandaragit, first written by Hernandez while in prison, is the first Filipino socio- political novel that exposes the ills of the society as evident in the agrarian problems of the 50s.
- 19. • Hernandez’s otherworks include: • Bayang Malaya • Isang Dipang Langit • Luha ng Buwaya • Amado V. Hernandez: Tudla at Tudling: Katipunan ng mga Nalathalang Tula 1921-1970 • Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas at Iba Pang Kuwento ni Amado V. Hernandez • Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol at Iba Pang Akda ni Amado V. Hernandez.
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- 21. JOSE GARCIA VILLA “Art isa miraculous flirtation with Nothing! Aiming for nothing, and landing on the Sun.” ―Doveglion: Collected Poems
- 22. JOSE GARCIA VILLA • August5, 1908 – February 7, 1997 • He is considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language. • Lived in Singalong, Manila
- 23. JOSE GARCIA VILLA • Introducedthe reversed consonance rhyme scheme, including the comma poems that made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way.
- 24. JOSE GARCIA VILLA • Thefirstof his poems “Have Come,Am Here” received critical recognition when it appeared in New York in 1942 that, soon enough honors and fellowships were heaped on him: Guggenheim, Bollingen, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards.
- 25. JOSE GARCIA VILLA • Heused Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as penname, the very characters he attributed to himself
- 26. JOSE GARCIA VILLA • Heused Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as penname, the very characters he attributed to himself
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- 28. NICK JOAQUIN “Before 1521 wecould havebeen anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.” ―Culture and History, 1988
- 29. NICK JOAQUIN • May 4,1917 – April 29, 2004 • Regarded by many as the most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino.
- 30. NICK JOAQUIN • Enriched theEnglish language with critics coining “Joaquinesque” to describe his baroque Spanish-flavored English or his reinventions of English based on Filipinisms.
- 31. NICK JOAQUIN • Aside fromhis handling of language, Bienvenido Lumbera writes that Nick Joaquin’s significance in Philippine literature involves his exploration of the Philippine colonial past under Spain and his probing into the psychology of social changes as seen by the young, as exemplified in stories such as Doña Jeronima, Candido’s Apocalypse and The Order of Melchizedek.
- 32. NICK JOAQUIN • Written plays,novels, poems, short stories and essays including reportage and journalism. • As a journalist, Nick Joaquin uses the name de guerre Quijano de Manila but whether he is writing literature or journalism, fellow National Artist Francisco Arcellana opines that “it isalways of the highest skill and
- 33. • Among hisvoluminous works are: • The Woman Who Had Two Navels • A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino • Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young • The Ballad of the Five Battles • Rizal in Saga • Almanac for Manileños
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- 35. CARLOS P. ROMULO • January14, 1899 – December 15, 1985 • Multifaceted career spanned 50 years of public service as educator, soldier, university president, journalist and diplomat. It is common knowledge that he was the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, then Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later
- 36. CARLOS P. ROMULO • Essentiallythough, Romulo was very much into writing: he was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. • Hewasthe only Asianto win America’s coveted Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for a series of articles predicting the outbreak of World War II.
- 37. CARLOS P. ROMULO • Romulo,in all, wrote and published 18 books, a range of literary works which included The United (novel), I Walked with Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother America, I See the Philippines Rise (war-time memoirs).
- 38. CARLOS P. ROMULO • Hisother books include his memoirs of his many years’affiliations with United Nations (UN): –Forty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN –The Philippine Presidents - his oral history of his experiences serving all the Philippine presidents.
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- 40. FRANCISCO ARCELLANA •“The names whichwere with infinite slowness revealed, seemed strange and stranger still; the colors not bright but deathly dull; the separate letters spelling out the names of the dead among them, did not seem to glow or shine with a festive sheen as did the other living names.”(from “The Mats”, Philippine Contemporary Literature, 1963)
- 41. FRANCISCO ARCELLANA • September 6,1916 – August 1, 2002 • Writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher, and one of the most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English.
- 42. FRANCISCO ARCELLANA • He pioneeredthe development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form. • For Arcellana, the pride of fiction is “that it is able to render truth, that is able to present reality”. • A brilliant craftsman, his works are now an indispensable part of a tertiary-level- syllabi all over the country.
- 43. FRANCISCO ARCELLANA • Arcellana’s publishedbooks are Selected Stories (1962), Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977), The Francisco Arcellana Sampler(1990).
- 44. Some of hisshort stories are: • Frankie • The Man Who Would Be Poe • Death in a Factory • Lina • A Clown Remembers • Divided by Two
- 45. • His poemsbeing: • The Other Woman • This Being the Third Poem This Poem is for Mathilda • To Touch You and I Touched Her
- 46. ROLANDO S. TINIO National Artist for Theatreand Literature (1997)
- 47. ROLANDO S. TINIO • March5, 1937 – July 7, 1997 • Playwright, thespian, poet, teacher, critic and translator
- 48. ROLANDO S. TINIO • Tinio’schief distinction is as a stage director whose original insights into the scripts he handled brought forth productions notable for their visual impact and intellectual cogency. • Subsequently, after staging productions for the Ateneo Experimental Theater (its organizer and administrator as well), he took on Teatro Pilipino.
- 49. ROLANDO S. TINIO • Itwas to Teatro Pilipino which he left a considerable amount of work reviving traditional Filipino drama by re-staging old theater forms like the sarswela and opening a treasure-house of contemporary Western drama. • It was the excellence and beauty of his practice that claimed for theater a place
- 50. ROLANDO S. TINIO • Hiscollections of poetry: • Sitsit sa Kuliglig • Dunung – Dunungan • Kristal na Uniberso
- 51. ROLANDO S. TINIO • Filmscripts: • Now and Forever • Gamitin Mo Ako
- 52. ROLANDO S. TINIO • Sarswelas: •Ang Mestisa • Ako • Ang Kiri • Ana
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- 54. N.V.M. GONZALES • September 8,1915 – November 28, 1999 • Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez, better known as N.V.M. Gonzalez, fictionist, essayist, poet, and teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in rural, urban landscapes.
- 55. N.V.M. GONZALES • Among themany recognitions, he won the First Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940, received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1960 and the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in 1990. The awards attest to his triumph in appropriating the English language to express, reflect and shape Philippine
- 56. N.V.M. GONZALES • Hebecame U.P .’sInternational-Writer-In- Residenceand 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
- 57. • Major worksof N.V.M Gonzalez include the following: • The Winds of April • Seven Hills Away • Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories • The Bamboo Dancers • Look Stranger, on this Island Now • Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty -One Stories • The Bread of Salt and Other Stories • Work on the Mountain • The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-
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- 59. LEVI CELERIO • April 30,1910 – April 2, 2002 • Levi Celerio is a prolific lyricist and composer for decades.
- 60. LEVI CELERIO • He effortlessly translated/wroteanew the lyrics to traditional melodies: “O Maliwanag Na Buwan” (Iloko), “Ako ay May Singsing” (Pampango),
- 61. LEVI CELERIO • Born inTondo, Celerio received his scholarship at the Academy of Music in Manila that made it possible for him to join the Manila Symphony Orchestra, becoming its youngest member.
- 62. LEVI CELERIO • He madeit to the Guinness Book of World Records as the only person able to make music using just a leaf.
- 63. LEVI CELERIO • A greatnumber of his songs have been written for the local movies, which earned for him the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines.
- 64. LEVI CELERIO • Levi Celerio,more importantly, has enriched the Philippine music for no less than two generations with a treasury of more than 4,000 songs in an idiom that has proven to appeal
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- 66. EDITH TIEMPO • April 22,1919 – August 21, 2011 • Edith L. Tiempo, poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic is one of the finest Filipino writers in English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight.
- 67. EDITH TIEMPO • Born onApril 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”.
- 68. EDITH TIEMPO • As fictionist,Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language hasbeen marked as“descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing.” She is an influential tradition in Philippine literature in English. Together with her late husband, Edilberto K. Tiempo, she founded and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in
- 69. EDITH TIEMPO • Tiempo’s publishedworks include the novel A Blade of Fern (1978), The Native Coast (1979), and The Alien Corn(1992); the poetry collections, The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966), and TheCharmer’sBoxand Other Poems(1993); and the short story collection Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964).
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- 71. F. SIONIL JOSE • F.Sionil Jose’s writings since the late 60s, when taken collectively can best be described as epic.
- 72. F. SIONIL JOSE • Itssheer volume puts him on the forefront of Philippine writing in English. But ultimately, it is the consistent espousal of the aspirations of the Filipino–for national sovereignty and social justice–that guarantees the value of his oeuvre.
- 73. F. SIONIL JOSE • Inthe five-novel masterpiece, the Rosales saga, consisting of The Pretenders, Tree, My Brother, My Executioner, Mass, and Po-on, he captures the sweep of Philippine history while simultaneously narrating the lives of generations of the Samsons whose personal lives intertwine with the social
- 74. F. SIONIL JOSE • Becauseof their international appeal, his works, including his many short stories, have been published and translated into various languages. • F. Sionil Jose is also a publisher, lecturer on cultural issues, and the founder of the Philippine chapter of the international organization PEN.
- 75. F. SIONIL JOSE • Hewas bestowed the CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts in 1999; the Outstanding Fulbrighters Award for Literature in 1988; and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts in 1980.
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- 77. VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO • VirgilioS. Almario, also known as Rio Alma, is a poet, literary historian and critic, who has revived and reinvented traditional Filipino poetic forms, even as he championed modernist poetics.
- 78. VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO • In34 years, he has published 12 books of poetry, which include the seminal Makinasyon and Peregrinasyon , and the landmark trilogy Doktrinang Anakpawis, Mga Retrato at
- 79. VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO • Inthese works, his poetic voice soared from the lyrical to the satirical to the epic, from the dramatic to the incantatory, in his often severe examination of the self, and the society
- 80. VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO • ManyFilipino writers have come under his wing in the literary workshops he founded – the Galian sa Arte at Tula (GAT) and the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA). • Hehasalso long been involved with children’s literature through the Aklat Adarna series, published by his Children’s Communication Center
- 81. VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO • Hehas been a constant presence as well in national writing workshops and galvanizes member writers as chairman emeritus of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL).
- 82. VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO • Butmore than anything else, what Almario accomplished was that he put a face to the Filipino writer in the country, one strong face determinedly wielding a pen into untruths, hypocrisy, injustice, among others.
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- 84. ALEJANDRO ROCES “You cannotbe a great writer; first, you have to be a good person”
- 85. ALEJANDRO ROCES • July 13,1924 – May 23, 2011 • Alejandro Roces, is a short story writer and essayist, and considered asthe country’s best writer ofcomic short stories.
- 86. ALEJANDRO ROCES • He isknown for his widely anthologized “My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken.” • In his innumerable newspaper columns, he has always focused on the neglected aspects of the Filipino cultural heritage.
- 87. ALEJANDRO ROCES • His workshave been published in various international magazines and has received national and international awards. • Ever the champion of Filipino culture, Roces brought to public attention the aesthetics of the country’sfiestas.
- 88. ALEJANDRO ROCES • He wasinstrumental in popularizing several local fiestas, notably, Moriones and Ati- atihan. • He personally led the campaign to change the country’s Independence Dayfrom July4 to June 12, and caused the change of language from English to Filipino in the country’sstamps, currency and passports, and recovered JoseRizal’s
- 89. ALEJANDRO ROCES • His unflinchinglove of country led him to become a guerilla during the Second World War, to defy martial law and to found the major opposition party under the dictatorship. • His works have been published in various international magazines and received numerous national and international awards, including several decorations from various governments.
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- 91. BIENVENIDO LUMBERA • 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.
- 92. BIENVENIDO LUMBERA • He isthe author of the following works: 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.
- 93. BIENVENIDO LUMBERA • As alibrettist for the Tales of the Manuvu and Rama Hari, he pioneered the creative fusion of fine arts and popular imagination.
- 94. BIENVENIDO LUMBERA • As ascholar, his major books include the following: Tagalog Poetry, 1570- 1898: Tradition and Influences in its Development; Philippine Literature: A History and Anthology, Revaluation: Essays on Philippine Literature, Writing the Nation/Pag-akda ng
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- 96. LAZARO FRANCISCO • February 22,1898 – June 17, 1980 • Prize-winning writer Lazaro A. Francisco developed the social realist tradition in Philippine fiction. • His eleven novels, now acknowledged classics of Philippine
- 97. LAZARO FRANCISCO • Francisco championedthe cause of the common man, specifically the oppressed peasants. His novels exposed the evils of the tenancy system, the exploitation of farmers by unscrupulous landlords, and foreign domination
- 98. LAZARO FRANCISCO • His pendignifies the Filipino and accents all the positives about the Filipino way of life. His writings have contributed much to the formation of a Filipino nationalism.
- 99. LAZARO FRANCISCO • When thehistory of the Filipino novel is written, Francisco is likely to occupy an eminent place in it. Already in Tagalog literature, he ranks among the finest novelists since the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to a deft hand at characterization, Francisco has a supple prose style responsive to the subtlest nuances of ideas and the sternest stuff of passions.
- 100. LAZARO FRANCISCO • Francisco gainedprominence as a writer not only for his social conscience but also for his “masterful handling of the Tagaloglanguage”and “supple prose style”. • With his literary output in Tagalog, he contributed to the enrichment of the Filipino language and literature for which he is a staunch advocate.
- 101. LAZARO FRANCISCO • He putup an arm to his advocacy of Tagalog as a national language by establishing the Kapatiran ng mga Alagad ng Wikang Pilipino (KAWIKA) in 1958. • Hisreputation asthe “Master of theTagalog Novel” is backed up by numerous awardshe received for his meritorious novels in particular and for his contribution to
- 102. LAZARO FRANCISCO • His masterpiecenovels—Ama, Bayang Nagpatiwakal, Maganda Pa Ang Daigdig and Daluyong—affirm his eminent place in Philippine literature. In 1997, he was honored by the University of the Philippines with a special convocation, where he wascited asthe “foremost Filipino novelist of his generation” and“champion of the Filipino
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- 104. CIRILO F. BAUTISTA • CiriloF. Bautista is a poet, fictionist and essayist with exceptional achievements and significant contributions to the development of the country’s literary arts. • He is acknowledged by peers and critics, and the nation at large as the foremost writer of his generation.
- 105. CIRILO F. BAUTISTA • Throughouthis career that spans more than four decades, he has established a reputation for fine and profound artistry; his books, lectures, poetry readings and creative writing workshops continue to influence his peers and generations of young writers.
- 106. CIRILO F. BAUTISTA • Bautistacontinues to contribute to the development of Philippine literature: as a writer, through his significant body of works; as a teacher, through his discovery and encouragement of young writers in workshops and lectures; and as a critic, through his essays that provide insights into the craft of writing and correctives to misconceptions about art.
- 107. CIRILO F. BAUTISTA • Majorworks: Summer Suns (1963), Words and Battlefields (1998), The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus (2001), Galaw ng Asoge (2003).