Philippine Literature From 2000 to Present

Philippine Literature: 2000 & Up

The famous Writers and their

work from the year

2000 & upPrepared by: Michelle Oximer

Literature

depicts the

history, culture

and tradition of a

country. It is

hard to imagine a

nation without it.Writings in which express

ion and form, in connecti

on with ideas of permanent 

and universal interest,

are characteristic or esse

ntial features, as poetry, 

novels, history, biography

, and essays.

– DictionaryReference.com

2003

20052006 2007

2008

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Notable Authors and their Literary

Contribution During the

2009

2012 2011

2010

2013

PoemsEssays

books

articles

Horror stories

Poems

ComedyPlays Drama

ModernizationFiction & non-fiction

Children’s Story

• 2010 Ani ng Dangal Award by Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo,

• 2009 South East Asian Writers Award by the Crown Prince of Thailand,

• 2009 Bikol Regional Artist Award for Literary Arts by Hon. Jesse Robredo

• 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.

Abdon M. Balde Jr.

Chairman - 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.

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.)

• 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.

• She is the youngest member of UMPIL or Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas' Board of Directors in 2004-2010.

• 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.

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.

Allan Popa

• 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

Charlson Ong

• 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.

Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo

• 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.)

Danton Remoto

GEMMA NEMENZO

One of those who

conceptualized

and created

Batibot, the

acclaimed

children's

educational TV

show.

Abstract/editor for US based electronic

database publisher; Managing Editor and

columnist of Filipinas – the only monthly glossy

magazine for the Fil-Am community in the US

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.

Edward P. Jones

• National Book Critics Circle Awardee• International IMPAC Dublin and Lannan

Literary Awards for The Known World• 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.

– Most recent book is All Aunt Hagar's Children.

Edgar Calabia Samar 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], 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).

Eros Atalia• 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.

• • 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)• Wag Lang di Makaraos: 100 Flash Fiction (VPE)•"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.

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 • 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)

• 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 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. 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 recent work is entitled Pinabli & Other Poems 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.

• She recently won the NCCA Writer's Prize for a third collection of short stories, entitled ‘Island of the Disappeared'.

• 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.

• 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.

RJ Ledesma

• 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).

• 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

RESIL B. MOJARES

Neni Sta.Romana Cruz • . • 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.

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• http://www.panitikan.com.ph/authors

• http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/articles-on-c-n-a/article.php?igm=1&i=145

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