![Carlos Bulosan
Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 24, 1913[1]
September 11, 1956) was an English-
language Filipino novelist and poet who immigrated
to America on July 1, 1930.[2] He never returned to
the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the
United States. His best-known work today is
the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart but
he first gained fame for his 1943 essay on The
Freedom from Want.
After arriving in Seattle from the Philippines in 1930,
Carlos Bulosan visited the city several times over the
years to work or see friends. He returned to Seattle
to stay in the early 1950s at the invitation of his
friends Ponce Torres and Chris Mensalvas, who he
knew from their years spent in labor organizing. Both
Torres and Mensalvas were officials in the cannery
workers union, Local 37, and for a time Bulosan
became the Publicity Director of the union. The
position caused some controversy, as Bulosan had
never worked in the canneries.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/635583290-filipino-authors-biography-250203085251-68212af8/85/635583290-Filipino-Authors-Biography-pdf-6-320.jpg)
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- 3. Starting as a proof-reader for the Philippines Free Press, Joaquin rose to contributing editor and essayist under the nom de plume Quijano de Manila (Manila Old-Timer). He was well known as a historian of the brief Golden Age of Spain in the Philippines, as a writer of short stories suffused with folk Roman Catholicism, as a playwright, and as a novelist. Joaquin wrote his works in English. The novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) examines his countrys various heritages. A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966), a celebrated play, attempts to reconcile historical events with dynamic change. The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on History as Three Generations (1983) presents a biography of Benigno Aquino, the assassinated presidential candidate. The action of the novel Cave and Shadows (1983) occurs in the period of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos. Joaquins other works included the short-story collections Tropical Gothic (1972) and Stories for Groovy Kids (1979), the play Tropical Baroque (1979), and the collections of poetry The Ballad of the Five Battles (1981) and Collected Verse (1987). Died: April 29, 2004 Notable works: A portrait of the artist as a Filipino, Cave and shadows, Culture and History: Occasional notes on the process of Philippine becoming, La Navel de Manila.
- 4. Francisco Arcellana Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 16, 1916. Arcellana already had ambitions of becoming a writer during his years in the elementary. 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. He later on received a Rockfeller Grant and became a fellow in creative writing the University of Iowa and Breadloaf's writers conference from 1956- 1957. He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino short story in English. Arcellana pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form within Filipino literature. His works are now often taught in tertiary- level-syllabi in the Philippines. Many of his works were translated into Tagalog, Malaysian, Russian, Italian, and German.
- 5. His major achievements included the first award in art criticism from the Art Association of the Philippines in 1954, the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award from the city government of Manila in 1981, and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for English fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipino (UMPIL) in 1988. Francisco Arcellana was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines in Literature in 1990. Arcellana won 2nd place in 1951 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with his short story, "The Flowers of May." 14 of his short stories were also included in Jose Garcia Villa's Honor Roll from 1928 to 1939. Arcellana died in 2002. As a National Artist, he received a state funeral at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. His grandson Liam Hertzsprung performed a piano concert in 2006 dedicated to him. Arcellana's published books include:Selected Stories (1962) Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977) The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990).
- 6. Carlos Bulosan Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 24, 1913[1] September 11, 1956) was an English- language Filipino novelist and poet who immigrated to America on July 1, 1930.[2] He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the United States. His best-known work today is the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart but he first gained fame for his 1943 essay on The Freedom from Want. After arriving in Seattle from the Philippines in 1930, Carlos Bulosan visited the city several times over the years to work or see friends. He returned to Seattle to stay in the early 1950s at the invitation of his friends Ponce Torres and Chris Mensalvas, who he knew from their years spent in labor organizing. Both Torres and Mensalvas were officials in the cannery workers union, Local 37, and for a time Bulosan became the Publicity Director of the union. The position caused some controversy, as Bulosan had never worked in the canneries.
- 7. In his years in Seattle, Bulosan battled alcoholism and was often homeless, staying with Torres, Mensalvas, Patrick, or sleeping in the union hall. Despite the hardship, he remained an active writer, with evidence suggesting he began several manuscripts (now lost), including a novel based on Seattles Skid Road. In the hostile political environment of the Cold War, however, Bulosan was understandably introspective about his life and his years of activism, as seen in a reflective poem from this period, Landscape with a Bottle. On September 11, 1956, Bulosan passed out in Seattle's City Hall Park following an evening of drinking with a labor lawyer friend. He had recently received a Carnegie Institute fellowship to focus on his writing, and was living in the Holland Hotel across from the park. He died in the hospital from pneumonia that evening. He was only in his mid-40s. After a memorial in the Local 37 union hall, Bulosan was buried in Mount Pleasant cemetery in Seattles Queen Anne neighborhood. Bulosans works include poetry collections, Letter from America (1942), Chorus from America (1942), and The Voice of Bataan (1943), as well as the novels The Cry and the Dedication (written in the 1950s and published posthumously in 1995) and The Sound of Falling Light (1960).
- 8. Bienvenido N. Santos Born inTondo, Manila, of Pampango parents from Lubao, Bienvenido N. Santos was a government pensionado to the United States in 1941. During the war years he studied at the University of Illinois, Columbia, and Harvard and served with the Philippine government in exile inWashington, D.C. In 1946 he returned to the Philippines, taught school and became a university administrator. In 1958 he was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the WritersWorkshop in the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. He has received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature. In 1981, his alma mater, the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University in Legazpi City gave him honorary degrees in Letters and Humanities. He was a DistinguishedWriter in Residence at theWichita State University from 1973 to 1982, and was awarded an honorary degree in humane letters upon his retirement. In late 1986 to 1987, he was aVisitingWriter and Artist at De La Salle University.
- 9. His works include the following: Novels The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor Brother My Brother The Praying Man The Volcano Villa Magdalena What the Hell For You Left Your Heart in San Francisco Novels The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor Brother My Brother The Praying Man The Volcano Villa Magdalena What the Hell For You Left Your Heart in San Francisco Short fiction collections Dwell in the Wilderness Scent of Apples The Day the Dancers Came You Lovely People Awards, honors and prizes Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of Iowa Guggenheim Fellowship Republic Cultural Heritage Award Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for short fiction (1956, 1961 and 1965) Fulbright Program Exchange Professorship American Book Award from Before Columbus Foundation Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, University of the Philippines Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines) Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, Wichita State University (Kansas, U.S.)
- 10. Leoncio P. Deriada Leoncio P. Deriada was born in Iloilo but spent most of his life in Davao. He went to school at the Davao City High School and graduated in 1955. He earned his BA English degree at the Ateneo de Davao University where he graduated cum laude in 1959. He later received his MA in English from Xavier University in 1970 and went on to receive his PhD in English and Literature with a specialization in creative writing from Silliman University in 1981 where he later on served as professor and chairperson of the English Department. He is a multi-lingual writer having produced works in English, Filipino, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a and Cebuano. His thirteen Palanca awards include works in English, Filipino and Hiligaynon. Of these thirteen, five are first-prize winners, and these include "The Day of the Locusts" (Short Story, 1975), "Mutya ng Saging" (Dulaang May Isang Yugto, 1987), "The Man Who Hated Birds" (Short Story for Children, 1993), "Medea of Siquijor" (One-Act Play, 1999), and "Maragtas: How Kapinangan Tricked Sumakwel Twice" (Full-Length Play, 2001). He became a Palanca Hall of Famer on September 1, 2001.
- 11. Aside from his Palanca awards, he has garnered other prestigious awards such as the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas, Asiaweek, Gawad CCP, Graphic, Focus, Yuhum (Iloilo), and Blue Knight Award from Ateneo de Davao for Outstanding Achievement in Literature. In 2002, he was one of Metrobank's Outstanding Teachers. He is currently a professor at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas - Iloilo. Dr. Deriada heads the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino at the U.P. Visayas. He is also an associate of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. Leoncio P. Deriada is generally recognized as the "Father of Contemporary Literature in Western Visayas." This paper is about his life as a writer and teacher, and his contribution in promoting and developing literature in Region 6 of the Philippine archipelago from the mid- 90s to the present by giving workshops and by editing anthologies, especially writing in Kinaray-a and Aklanon. The forces that created Deriada as a "literary engineer" are also explained. Although the main locus of Deriada's efforts is the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, his sensibilities as a writer and cultural worker is truly national.