LITERATURE

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature refers to
writing considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual
value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.
1973 - Amado Vera Hernandez, commonly known as Amado V. Hernandez (September 13, 1903 –
March 24, 1970), was a Filipino writer and labor leader who was known for his criticism of social
injustices in the Philippines and was later imprisoned for his involvement in
the communist movement. He was the central figure in a landmark legal case that took 13 years to
settle.

1973 - 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,[1] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.[2] 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.[3] 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

1976 - Nicomedes "Nick" 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 of the most important Filipino
writers, along with José Rizal and Claro M. Recto. Unlike Rizal and Recto whose masterpieces were
written in Spanish, Joaquin's major works, despite being a native Spanish speaker, were written in
English
1982 - Carlos Peña Romulo, QSC, CLH, NA (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.

1990 - Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer,
poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 6, 1916. Arcellana already
had ambitions of becoming a writer early in his childhood. His actual writing, however, started when
he became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. Arcellana
continued writing in various school papers at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Later on he
received a Rockefeller Grant and became a fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and
at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference from 1956– 1957
1997 - 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.

1997 – HISTORICAL LITERATURE - Carlos Lozada Quirino (14 January 1910 – 20 May 1999)
was a Philippine biographer and historian.

1999 - 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.

2001 - Francisco Sionil José (born 3 December 1924) is one of the most widely
read Filipino writers in the English language.[1][2] His novels and short stories depict the social
underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society.[3][4] José's works—written in
English—have been translated into 28 languages,
including Korean, Indonesian, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch

2003 - Virgilio S. Almario (born March 9, 1944), better known by his pen name Rio Alma, is
a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager.[1] He is a National Artist
of the Philippines and currently serves as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF),
the government agency mandated to promote and standardize the use of the Filipino language. On
January 5, 2017, Almario was also elected as the chairman of the National Commission for Culture
and the Arts

2003 - Alejandro Reyes Roces (13 July 1924 – 23 May 2011) was a Filipino author, essayist,
dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as Secretary of
Education from 1961 to 1965, during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.

2006 - Bienvenido Lumbera is a Filipino poet, critic and dramatist. He is a National Artist of the
Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative
Communications. He won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Awards from the
National Book Foundation, and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards.

2009 - Lázaro Francisco y Angeles, also known as Lazaro A. Francisco (February 22, 1898 –
June 17, 1980) was a Filipino novelist, essayist and playwright. Francisco is the recipient of
the National Artist of the Philippines for Literature, posthumously, in 2009

2014 - Cirilo F. Bautista (July 9, 1941 – May 6, 2018) was a Filipino poet, critic and writer of
nonfiction. He was conferred with the National Artist of the Philippines award in 2014.