Jose Garcia Villa (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story

writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as
well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. He is known to have
introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of
punctuation marks—especially commas, which made him known as the Comma Poet. He used the
penname Doveglion (derived from "Dove, Eagle, Lion"), based on the characters he derived from
himself. These animals were also explored by another poet E. E. Cummings in Doveglion, Adventures
in Value, a poem dedicated to Villa.
Works
As an editor, Villa first published Philippine Short Stories: Best 25 Short Stories of 1928 in 1929, an
anthology of Filipino short stories written in English literature English that were mostly published in
the literary magazine Philippine Free Press for that year.
Villa published Many Voices, his first collection poems, followed by Poems by Doveglion in 1941.
Other collections of poems include Have Come, Am Here (1942) and Volume Two (1949; the year he
edited The Doveglion Book of Philippine Poetry in English from 1910). Three years later, he released a
follow-up for The Portable Villa entitled The Essential Villa. Villa, however, went under "self-exile"
after the 1960s, even though he was nominated for several major literary awards including the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry. This was perhaps because of oppositions between his formalism (literature) formalist
style and the advocates of proletarian literature, who misjudged him as a petty bourgeois. Villa only
"resurfaced" in 1993 with an anthology entitled Charlie Chan Is Dead, which was edited by Jessica
Hagedorn.
Several reprints of Villa's past works were done, including Appasionata: Poems in Praise of Love in
1979, A Parliament of Giraffes (a collection of Villa's poems for young readers, with Tagalog language
Tagalog translation provided by Larry Francia), and The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by
Villa that was edited by Eileen Tabios with a foreword provided by Hagedorn (both in 1999).
His popular poems include When I Was No Bigger Than A Huge, an example of his "comma poems",
and The Emperor's New Sonnet (a part of Have Come, Am Here) which is basically a blank sheet of
paper.
Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín (May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer, historian and
journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the
pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquín was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the
Philippines for Literature. He has been considered one othe most important Filipino writers, along
with José Rizal and Claro M. Recto, his major works are in English, but was native Spanish
speakers,unlike Rizal and Recto whose masterpieces were written in Spanish.
Works

 May Day Eve (1947)

 Prose and Poems (1952)
 The House On Zapote Street (1960)
 The Woman Who had Two Navels (1961)
 La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964)
 A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966)
 Tropical Gothic (1972)
 A Question of Heroes (1977)
 Joseph Estrada and Other Sketches (1977)
 Nora Aunor & Other Profiles (1977)
 Ronnie Poe & Other Silhouettes (1977)
 Reportage on Lovers (1977)
 Reportage on Crime (1977)
 Amalia Fuentes & Other Etchings (1977)
 Gloria Diaz & Other Delineations (1977)
 Doveglion & Other Cameos (1977)
 Language of the Streets and Other Essays (1977)
 Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1977)
 Pop Stories for Groovy Kids (1979)
 Reportage on the Marcoses (1979)
 Language of the Street and Other Essays (1980)
 The Ballad of the Five Battles (1981)
 Reportage on Politics (1981)
 Tropical Baroque (1982)
 The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on History as Three Generations (1983)
 Almanac for Manileños
 Cave and Shadows (1983)
 The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power Apocalypse (1986)
 Collected Verse (1987)
 Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine Becoming (1988)
 Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young (1990),
 The D.M. Guevara Story (1993),
 Mr. F.E.U., the Culture Hero That Was Nicanor Reyes (1995).
 Rizal in Saga (1996)
 ABE: A Frank Sketch of E. Aguilar Cruz (2004)

Carlos Peña Romulo, QSC PLH (14 January 1898 – 15 December 1985) was a Filipino diplomat,
statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age
of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, a general
in the US Army and the Philippine Army, university president, President of the UN General
Assembly, was eventually named one of the Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the
recipient of many other honors and honorary degrees. His hometown is Camiling, Tarlac and he
studied at the Camiling Central Elementary School during his basic education.

Books

 I Saw the Fall of The Philippines

 Mother America
 My Brother Americans
 I See The Philippines Rise
 The United
 Crusade in Asia (The John Day Company, 1955; about the 1953 presidential election
campaign of Ramon Magsaysay)
 The Meaning of Bandung
 The Magsaysay Story (with Marvin M. Gray, The John Day Company 1956, updated re-
edition by Pocket Books, Special Student Edition, SP-18, December 1957; biography
of Ramon Magsaysay, Pocket Books edition updated with an additional chapter on
Magsaysay's death)
 I Walked with Heroes (autobiography)
 Last Man off Bataan (Romulo's experience during the Japanese Plane bombings.)
 Romulo: A Third World Soldier at the UN
 Daughters for Sale and Other Plays
Néstor Vicente Madali González (September 8, 1915 – November 28, 1999) was a Filipino
novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. Conferred as the National Artist of the Philippines for
Literature in 1997.

Works
The works of Gonzalez have been published
in Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Indonesian.

Novels
 The Winds of April (1941)
 A Season of Grace (1956)
 The Bamboo Dancers (1988)
 The Land And The Rain
 The Happiest Boy in The World

Short fiction
 "The Tomato Game".1992
 A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997
 The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993;
University of the Philippines Press, 1993
 Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press,
1981; New Day, 1989
 Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964
 Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963
 Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark
Filipino Literary Classic, 1992
 Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947

Essays
 A Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968–1994. Manila: National Commission for Culture
and the Arts and Anvil (popular edition), 1996
 Work on the Mountain (Includes The Father and the Maid, Essays on Filipino Life and Letters
and Kalutang: A Filipino in the World), University of the Philippines Press, 1996
Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011),[1] poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary
critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.
 Tiempo was born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, but later became a resident
of Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.
 Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in
two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As
fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive
but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine
Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K.
Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers
Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.
 She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.Works

Novels
 A Blade of Fern (1978)
 His Native Coast (1979)
 The Alien Corn (1992)
 One, Tilting Leaves (1995)
 The Builder (2004)
 The Jumong (2006)

Short story collections

 Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)

Poetry collection
 The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)
 The Charmer's Box and Other Poet (1993)
 Marginal Annotations and Other Poems

Francisco Sionil José (born 3 December 1924) is one of the most widely read Filipino writers in
the English language. His novelsand short stories depict the social underpinnings of class
struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. José's works—written in English—have
been translated into 28 languages,
including Korean, Indonesian, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch.

Works

Rosales Saga novels

A five-novel series that spans three centuries of Philippine history, translated into 22 languages

 Po-on (Source) (1984) ISBN 971-8845-10-0

 The Pretenders (1962) ISBN 971-8845-00-3
 My Brother, My Executioner (1973) ISBN 971-8845-16-X
 Mass (December 31, 1974) ISBN 0-86861-572-2
 Tree (1978) ISBN 971-8845-14-3

Original novels containing the Rosales Saga

 Source (Po-on) (1993) ISBN 0-375-75144-0
 Don Vicente (1980) ISBN 0-375-75243-9 – Tree and My Brother, My Executioner combined
in one book
 The Samsons ISBN 0-375-75244-7 The Pretenders and Mass combined in one book

Other novels
 Gagamba (The Spider Man) (1991) ISBN 978-971-536-105-7
 Viajero (1993) ISBN 978-971-8845-04-2
 Sin (1994) ISBN 0-517-28446-4
 Ben Singkol (2001) ISBN 971-8845-32-1
 Ermita (1988) ISBN 971-8845-12-7
 Vibora! (2007)
 Sherds (2008)
 Muse and Balikbayan: Two Plays (2008)
 Short Stories (with Introduction and Teaching Guide by Thelma B. Kintanar) (2008)
 The Feet of Juan Bacnang (2011)

Novellas
 Three Filipino Women (1992) ISBN 9780307830289
 Two Filipino Women (1981) ISBN 9711001136

Short story collections

 The God Stealer and Other Stories (2001) ISBN 971-8845-35-6
 Puppy Love and Thirteen Short Stories (March 15, 1998) ISBN 971-8845-26-
7 and ISBN 978-971-8845-26-4
 Olvidon and Other Stories (1988) ISBN 971-8845-18-6
 Platinum: Ten Filipino Stories (1983) ISBN 971-8845-22-4 (now out of print, its stories are
added to the new version of Olvidon and Other Stories)
 Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short Stories (1980) ISBN 99922-884-0-X
 Asian PEN Anthology (as editor) (1966)
 Short Story International (SSI): Tales by the World's Great Contemporary
Writers (Unabridged, Volume 13, Number 75) (co-author, 1989) ISBN 1-55573-042-6
Children's books
 The Molave and The Orchid (November 2004)
Verses
 Questions (1988)
Essays and non-fiction
 In Search of the Word (De La Salle University Press, March 15, 1998) ISBN 971-555-264-
1 and ISBN 978-971-555-264-6
 We Filipinos: Our Moral Malaise, Our Heroic Heritage
 Soba, Senbei and Shibuya: A Memoir of Post-War Japan ISBN 971-8845-31-
3 and ISBN 978-971-8845-31-8
 Heroes in the Attic, Termites in the Sala: Why We are Poor (2005)
 This I Believe: Gleanings from a Life in Literature (2006)
 Literature and Liberation (co-author) (1988)