What is Literature and Filipino Authors..

1. What is Literature?

"Literature is a creative writing of recognized artistic value.."

-I choose this meaning of literature because every literature works needs a person with in-depth knowledge about what he/she is about to write for others to read and not to bore out with what the readers are reading. The writers must have the artistic side too..

Reference:

1. Source:

ARDictionary. “Lliterature ⁷.” Accurate & Readable Dictionary. 2004 – 2008 Web. 14 Jan. 2010 <http://ardictionary.com/Literature/3778>.

Literature is like a candle that lights up in the dark same as literature, it lights up your mind to something you don't know and see what you can't see, and open your mind to the reality. It's like an eye&mind opener..

2. Filipino Authors

Nick Juaquin

Poet, fictionist, essayist, biographer, playwright, and National Artist,

The following are Joaquin's published books:

Prose and Poems (1952)
The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961)

Selected Stories (1962)

La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964)
The Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966)
Tropical Gothic (1972)
The Complete Poems and Plays of Jose Rizal (1976)
Reportage on Crime (1977)
Reportage on Lovers (1977)

Nora Aunor and Other Profiles (1977)
Ronnie Poe and Other Silhouettes (1977)
Amalia Fuentes and Other Etchings (1977)
Gloria Diaz and Other Delineations (1977)

Doveglion and Other Cameos (1977)

A Question of Heroes (1977)
Stories for Groovy Kids (1979)
Almanac for Manileños (1979)

Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1980)
Language of the Street and Other Essays (1980)
Reportage on the Marcoses (1979, 1981)

The awards and prizes he has received include:

Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1961);
Stonehill Award for the Novel (1960);

first prize, Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest (1949);
first prize, Palance Memorial Award (1957-58);
Jose Garcia Villa's honor roll (1940);
andthe National Artist Award (1976).

Rina Jimenez-David

She is a natural-born Filipino citizen and a Roman Catholic. David is well-known as an opinion columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a broadsheet which she joined in 1988 as an Opinion Editor. She has been writing opinion columns for more than ten years. Her advocacies include the fair treatment of Philippine women and children which stemmed from her involvement in the national women’s group, PILIPINA. In 1995, she won as “Best Columnist” in the Global Media Awards and was cited by the Population Institute for her writing on population and development. She also won “The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS)” award in the same year. A graduate of AB Journalism, batch 1976, of the University of Santo Tomas, she pursued advanced studies in the field of journalism at the John Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore in the year 1999. One of her most distinguished works, ‘Women at Large’, was a finalist in the 1994 National Book Awards.

SOME OF HER WORKS:

Women at Large
Mexico Memories
A Shared Faith and Struggle
How Family Planning Works in Mexico

Another Religious ‘War’ in Mexico
Celebrating Obama
’Jinxing It’
An All-Saint’s Day Bargain
Belonging
An Evening of Music, in a Lovely Church
Have We Done All We Can?
Pledging Virginity in Vain
Bart’s ‘Goodbye’
Bebe in the Ladies’ Room
’It’ Bags and Indigenous Fabrics
Our friend, Barack
Saving Mothers and Babies
Being 'green' in Quiapo
Talismans of Hope
Passion and History
Learning from Boracay
Hope and Gratitude
Are We Worth Saving

Virgilio S. Almario

is a foremost poet and critic in Filipino aside from being an outstanding translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager.

Some of his works:

The earliest pieces of Almario's literary criticism were also published in the Dawn, the University of the East's weekly organ. Some of them were collected in Ang Makata Sa Panahon ng Makina (1972) and now considered as the first book of literary criticism in Filipino. He later shed off his modernist and formalist interests in favor of a nationalist and politically engaged orientation and joined the activist movement. He was eased out of his teaching job when martial law was declared, married Emelina B. Soriano in the afternoon of New Year 1973, and busied himself with research projects on literary history and the search for native traditions in Philippine literature while blacklisted by the military. This library work resulted in a seminal essay on the novel and some major critical studies including Taludtod at Talinhaga (1965; 1991), Balagtasismo Versus Modernismo (1984), Kung Sino ang Kumatha Kina Bagongbanta, Ossorio, Herrera, atbp. (1992), and Panitikan ng Rebolusyon (g 1896) (1993).

REFERENCES:

Panitikan.com.ph. “The National Artists for Literature.” Panitikan.com.ph. Web. 14 Jan. 2010<http://nationalartists.panitikan.com.ph/vsalmario.htm>.

PinoyLit. “A Philippine Literature Page.” A Philippine Literature Page. Web. 14 Jan. 2010 <http://pinoylit.webmanila.com/>.

GNU Free Documentation License and WikiPilipinas. “Rina Jimenez-David.” Wikipilipinas. 24 Feb 2009. Web. 14 Jan. 2010 <http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Rina_Jimenez-David>.