2000 and up philippine literature
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2000 and up Philippine Literature
Outstanding Authors and
writers of the Decades
Abdon M. Balde
Jr. Chairman of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (Writers Union of the Philippines), a Founding Board Member of the Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society, Board Member of the Wika ng Kultura at Agham, a member of the Kabulig Bikol Writers Organization and the Albay Writers Group, and a consultant of the National Bookstore.
He was confered the 2010 Ani ng Dangal Award by Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the 2009 South East Asian Writers Award by the Crown Prince of Thailand, the 2009 Bikol Regional Artist Award for Literary Arts by Hon. Jesse Robredo and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature by the Arejola Foundation. Three of his books won the National Book Award. He also won the Palanca Memorial Award for Literature in 2003. He was a civil engineer by profession and a self trained painter. He now lives in Las Piñas City with his one and only wife, two daughters, a son, four grandsons and many, many friends who refuse to grow old.
Allan Popa the author of seven collections of poetry, the most recent being Basta (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2009). He has received the Philippines Free Press Literary Award and the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award. He earned his MFA in poetry at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he won the Norma Lowry Prize and the Academy of American Poets Prize. He teaches at the Ateneo de Manila University and at De La Salle University-Manila.
Beverly Siy or Bebang
published writer of all sorts of genres (from serious poetry to horror stories for adolescents to humorous essays to erotic novel.) Her writing career started during her senior year in high school. She did the writing, lay outing and publishing of the spoof of her school's campus paper. She sold each copy for P2.00 or $ 0.05 to her classmates.
She took up BA Creative Writing (Filipino) in the University of the Philippines while she worked as a waitress at night. She graduated cum laude in 2002. She immediately signed up for MA Filipino, major in Literature. She is very optimistic that she will finish the course soon.
Bebang became the youngest member of UMPIL or Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas' Board of Directors in 2004-2010. She also served as the president of Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA) in 2007-2009. LIRA is the premiere and the oldest organization of Filipino poets who write primarily in the national language.
She is the Executive Officer for Membership and Documentation of Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society (FILCOLS), an organization of authors and publishers that helps fight for the economic rights of copyright holders.
Charlson Ong
written 3 collections of short
fiction: Men of the East and
other Stories, Woman of
AmKaw and other stories.
Conversion and other fictions
as well as three novels An
Embarrassment of Riches,
Banyaga, A Song of War, and
Blue Angel, White Shadow
Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo
a renowned teacher, editor, writer, and
pioneer of creative nonfiction. Garnering
honors since her colegiala days, Dr.
Hidalgo has also received such prestigious
awards as Gawad Balagtas, Graphic, Free
Press, Focus, Manila Critics' Circle, British
Council Grant to Cambridge, and the U.P.
President's Award for Outstanding
Publication. She has been recognized as
Outstanding Thomasian Writer, Hall of
Famer for the International Publication
Award, and Grand Prize winner for the
Novel in the Palanca Awards. She was Vice
President for Public Affairs of the
University of the Philippines and at present
is the director of the University of Sto.
Tomas Publishing House, and an associate
of the UP Institute of Creative Writing.
Danton Remoto
has written nine books and edited eight other titles, including the landmark Ladlad series of gay literature. He taught English and Literature at Ateneo de Manila University before taking early retirement to work as a Communications Analyst at the United Nations Development Programme. He is now the Head of Research and Desk Manager of TV5, where he also co-hosts a weekly TV show and a daily radio show. He studied at Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines, University of Stirling (U.K.) and Rutgers University (U.S.A.)
Dean Francis Alfar
a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction. His work has published both in his native Philippines and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Apex Book of World SF and the Exotic Gothic series.
His literary awards include ten Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature- including the Grand Prize for Novel for Salamanca - as well as the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards for the graphic novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion, and the Philippines Free Press Literary Award.
He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic, publishing the annual Philippine Speculative Fiction series, as well as a comic book creator and a blogger.
Edgar Calabia Samar is the author of two books of poetry, Pag-
aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay (2006) and Isa Na Namang Pagtingala sa Buwan (2005). His 2009 novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog [Eight Muses of the Fall], was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the NCCA Writer's Prize for the Novel. His works have also received awards from the Palanca, PBBY Salanga Writer's Prize, Gawad Surian sa Tula and Gantimpalang Collantes. His second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909, which won the 2011 KAL Gawad Antonio M. Abad for Best Dissertation in UP Diliman, will be published soon. He was invited as writer in residence to the 2010 International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. Samar teaches Philippine Literature and Creative Writing at Ateneo de Manila University and is now the Director of the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP).
Managing Editor and columnist of Filipinas, the only monthly glossy magazine for the Filipino American community circulated in all fifty U.S. states. Before she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with her three children in 1988, she was a freelance journalist writing for various publications in Manila. She was also part of the pioneering team that conceptualized and created Batibot, the acclaimed children's educational TV show. A journalism graduate of the University of the Philippines, Gemma has had extensive experience writing for both television and print. In the U.S., she worked for more than ten years as an abstractor/editor for a major electronic database publisher. Her popular column, Slant, appears monthly in Filipinas Magazine.
GEMMA NEMENZO
has been awarded, among others, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the International IMPAC Dublin and Lannan Literary Awards for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Award. His most recent book is All Aunt Hagar's Children. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Edward P. Jones
Master of Arts in Language and Literarure-Filipino sa DLSU noong 2008 at BSE-Fil sa PNU noong 1996. Ginantimpalaan ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino ang kanyang tatlong sanaysay at apat na tula. Unang Gantimpala sa Pandaylipi Ink. sa pagsulat ng tula noong 1995, Gawad Balagtas (PNU 1996), Unang Gantimpala sa Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (2006), Gawad Soc Rodrigo (2007), Fellow sa UP-ICW Writers Workshop for Mid Career Writers noong 2007. May akda ng 3 aklat: • Taguan Pung (kalipunan ng mga akdang di pambata) at Manwal ng mga Napapagal (kopiteybol dedbol buk) (UST 2005) • Peksman (mamatay ka man) Nagsisinungaling Ako (VPE 2007) • Ligo na U, Lapit na Me (VPE 2009)• Ilalabas ngayong taong ang kanyang ikaapat na aklat na: Wag Lang di Makaraos: 100 Flash Fiction (VPE)• Ilalabas ngayong Disyembre ang kanyang ikalimang aklat na "Its Not that Complicated: Bakit hindi pa sasakupin ng mga alien ang daigdig sa 2012“
Lecturer, panelist, resource person at speaker sa mga local at nasyonal na kumperensya, seminar at workshop sa wika, linggwistika, panitikan, malikhaing pagsulat, peryodismo at pamamaraan ng pagtuturo.
Kasapi ng mga organisasyon ng mga propesyonal na manunulat at peryodista. Naging contributor sa mga pambansang tabloid at kolumnista sa Remate. Kasalukuyan ngayong kolumnista sa Diyaryo Pinoy. Research Associate sa Research Cluster on Culture, Education and Social issues, dating Junior Associate ng Center for Creative Writing and Studies at nagtuturo ng Filipino at Filipino Journalism sa Faculty of Arts and Letters, at Creative Writing sa UST Graduate School. Kasalukuyang editor-in- chief ng Responde Cavite.
Eros S. Atalia
ISAGANI R. CRUZ Former Philippine Undersecretary of
Education .ISAGANI R. CRUZ (Ph.D.,
University of Maryland) is the president
of The Manila Times College and a
Governor of the National Book
Development Board. He is a consultant
to the presidents of De La Salle
University and Far Eastern University.
He belongs to the Hall of Fame of the
Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in
Literature and is one of the 2010
Outstanding Filipinos (TOFIL). He
writes for Philippine Star.
J. Neil C. Garcia finished his BA Journalism (magna cum laude) in the University of Santo Tomas in 1990.
He is currently teaching creative writing and comparative literature at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where he enjoys the rank of Artist II in the Artistic Productivity System, and where he serves as a fellow for poetry in the Institute of Creative Writing. He is the author of numerous poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism, including Our Lady of the Carnival (1996), The Sorrows of Water (2000), Kaluluwa (2001), Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996), Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism (1998), Performing the Self: Occasional Prose (2003), The Garden of Wordlessness (2005), and Misterios and Other Poems ( 2005) His latest critical work, Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques, is a revised version of his PhD dissertation in English Studies: Creative Writing, which he completed in 2003. Between 1994 and 2006, he coedited, with Danton Remoto, the famous Ladlad series of Philippine gay writing. He is currently working on a full-length book, a postcolonial survey and analysis of Philippine poetry in English.
He recently edited the anthology: Aura: The Gay Theme in Philippine Fiction in English.
JOSE DALISAY JR., PhD
has published more than 25 books of fiction
and nonfiction, winning many awards for
his writing both in the Philippines and
overseas. He has been a Fulbright,
Hawthornden, British Council, David TK
Wong, Rockefeller, and Civitella Ranieri
fellow. He graduated from the University of
the Philippines (AB English, cum laude), the
University of Michigan (MFA), and the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (PhD
English). He teaches English at the
University of the Philippines, where he also
serves as Director of the Institute of
Creative Writing. He has lectured on
Philippine culture and politics in the US,
the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Italy,
Singapore, Malaysia, and China, among
other places. His second novel, Soledad's
Sister, was shortlisted for the inaugural
Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007.
Santiago B. Villafania,
Pangasinan poet, is the author of poetry collections Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Authors Series (2005) and Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles (2007). Malagilion was recognized by the National Book Development Board and Manila Critics Circle as Finalist for Best Book of Poetry in the 27th National Book Award.
Some of his poems in Pangasinan and English have appeared in local and international print and web publications/anthologies and have been translated into several languages. Villafania is one of the 11 outstanding Pangasinenses and recipient of the 1st ASNA Award for Arts and Culture (Literature) during the first-ever Agew na Pangasinan and 430th Foundation Day of Pangasinan in 2010. His new collection of Pangasinan poetry (with translations in Filipino, English, and Spanish) entitled Pinabli & Other Poems will be released in 2012.
Rosario Cruz-Lucero is an author of short stories, personal essays, and scholarly articles. Her
stories and essays have won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, the Philippines Free Press Literary Award, the Nick Joaquin Literary Award, and the CCP Gantimpalang Ani. Her two books of fiction have received the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle. She recently won the NCCA Writer's Prize for a third collection of short stories, entitled ‘Island of the Disappeared'.
She teaches Philippine literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she finished a doctorate in Philippine Studies.
She has been Fulbright Visiting Professor twice, a Ford Foundation Country Scholar for Southeast Asian Literature, a British Council Center scholar to Oxford University, and a writer-in-residence in Lavigny, Switzerland.
RJ Ledesma
is a real estate developer, entrepreneur, Editor-in-chief of UNO Magazine, newspaper columnist , television and events host, erstwhile actor,
His latest book "IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I PEE, RJ Ledesma's Imaginary Guide to Bodily Gases, Hair Loss & Pink Parts" will be out this December from Anvil Publishing. His last book "IS IT HOT IN HERE OR IS IT ME?" was a finalist in the leisure category of the 30th National Book Awards. All of his books, including "LIES MY YAYA SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME" and "I DO OR I DIE" are collections from his weekly "Pogi from a Parallel Universe" columns in the Philippine Star.
RESIL B. MOJARES Essayist and scholar, RESIL B.
MOJARES authored such award-winning books as Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel (1979), Theater in Society, Society in Theater (1985), House of Memory (1997 ), Waiting for Mariang Makiling (2002), and Brains of the Nation (2006). He has served as visiting professor in Philippine Studies at universities in Japan, Singapore, and the United States. Long-time member of the Manila Critics Circle, he is currently general editor of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation and professor emeritus at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City
Neni Sta.Romana Cruz a freelance journalist, educator, book reviewer and children's
book writer. Her books include Tales from EDSA, Gabriela Silang, Why the Piña Has a Hundred Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folktales About Fruits, The Warrior Dance and Other Classic Philippine Sky Tales, The Boy Who Would Feed the World, The Teacher. She won the Manila Critics Circle's National Book Award for Children's Literature for Why the Piña Has a Hundred Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folktales About Fruits. Daughters True, a history book she co-edited for the centennial of her alma mater, St. Scholastica's College won the National Book Award for Education in 2007.
She has also written a series on Philippine pop culture: Don't Take a Bath on a Friday: Philippine Superstitions and Folk Beliefs, and the bestsellers, You Know You're a Filipino If...A Pinoy Primer, and the Ngalang Pinoy: A Primer on Filipino Wordplay. Her work has been anthologized in over 20 other books.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, major in English, from St. Scholastica's College where she graduated cum laude and a master's degree in English literature from the Ateneo de Manila University. She has also taken postgraduate courses in children's literature from Michigan State University.
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