Region 4 CALABARZON - Jose Rizal

José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the
end of the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. He is considered the national hero of the Philippines.

WORKS OF JOSE RIZAL

 Noli Me Tangere
 The Reign of Greed
 Mi ultimo adios
 Ala Juventud Filipina
 Noli Me Tangere: El Filibusterismo
 The Revolution
 The Poems of Jose Rizal
 The Indolence of the Filipino
 Makamisa
 The Philippines a Century Hence: With Original Illustrations
 My last farewell and other poems
 Filipinas dentro de cien anos
 His life works and Role in the Philippine Revolution
 Junto Al Pasig
 Political and Historical Writings
 Noli Me Tangere: Scholar’s Choice Edition
 Mariang Makiling: A Philippine Folktale
 Revolution aux Philippines
 The Subversive
 The subversive
 The Reign of Greed: Large Point
 The Reign of Greed: English Edition of El Filibusterismo
 The Monkey and the Turtle: A Philippine Folk Tale
 Rizal’s own story of his life
 Remembering Rizal: Voices from the Diaspora
 The friar and the Filipinos
 Letters between Rizal and family members
 Where slaves are none: The complete poems of Jose Rizal in Spanish and English
 Miscellaneous writings of Dr. Jose Rizal
 The Monkey and the tortoise: A Tagalog tale
 One hundred letters of Jose Rizal to his parents, brothers, sisters, & Relatives
 Miscellaneous Writings
 The last Eden (Noli Me Tangere): A completely new translation for the Contemporary Reader
 The Rizal-Pastells Correspondence: The Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Jose Rizal and Portions of Fr. Pablo
Pastells Fourth Letter and Translation of the Correspondence, together with a Historical Background and
Theologica Critique.
  Rizal and Republican Spain and other Rizalist essays
 The Rizal-Blumentritt Correspondence: 1890-1896
 Jose Rizal, Political & Historical Writings
 Antologia
 Prose
 By Telephone: A Satire

JOSE RIZAL’S AWARD

 José Rizal (1861-1896) is one of the most revered figures in Philippine history. He was a multifaceted
intellectual and a political activist, best known for his political writings that inspired the Philippine
revolution and ultimately led to his execution by the Spanish colonizers. Rizal was also a physician who
trained in ophthalmology under 2 prominent European ophthalmologists, Louis de Wecker and Otto
Becker.
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 The cinematic depiction of Rizal's literary works won two film industry awards more than a century after
his birth. At the 10th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards ceremony, Rizal was
honored in the Best Story category for Gerardo de León's adaptation of his book Noli Me Tángere. The
recognition was repeated the following year with his movie version of El Filibusterismo, making him the
only person to win back-to-back FAMAS Awards.
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REGIONAL AUTHORS IN THE NORTHERN PHILIPPINES

1. Pedro Bucaneg: Father of Ilocano Literature

- Biag ni Lam-ang.
- Christian sermons in Ilokano, translated the novenas and prayers from Latin and Spanish into Ilokano
and helped in the preparation of the first Ilokano catechism and grammar.
Award of Pedro Bucaneg
- He is considered as Father of Ilocano Literature.

2. Leona Josefa Florentino (19 April 1849 – 4 October 1884)

- was a Filipina poet who wrote in Spanish and Ilocano.

She is considered the "mother of Philippine women's literature," serving as the "bridge from oral to
literary tradition";and as a pioneer in Philippine lesbian literature

Her lyrical poetry in Spanish, and especially that in Ilocano, gained attention in various international
forums in Spain, Paris, and St. Louis, Missouri. Her literary contributions - particularly 22 preserved
poems - were recognized when she was included in the Encyclopedia Internationale des Oeuvres des
Femmes (International Encyclopedia of Women’s Works) in 1889. She is believed to be the first Filipina
to receive this international recognition, a homage that occurred after her death at a young age. [1] Her
work was exhibited at the Exposition Filipina in Madrid in 1887 and the Exposition Internationale in
Paris

3. Isabelo de Los Reyes y Florentino,

also known as Don Belong (July 7, 1864 – October 10, 1938), was a prominent Filipino politician,
writer, and labor activist in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was the original founder of the Iglesia
Filipina Independiente, an independent Philippine national church. He is now known as the "Father of
Philippine Folklore", the "Father of the Philippine Labor Movement", and the "Father of Filipino
Socialism"
de Los Reyes published in rapid succession multiple works: Ilocandias (1887), Articulos Varios
(1887), Las Islas Visayas en la Epoca de la Conquista (1889), Historia de Filipinas (1889), and the
two-volume Historia de Ilocos (1890). These and other works won him a measure of recognition as a
scholar.

4. Carlos Bulosan

Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet who immigrated to
America on July 1, 1930. Bulosan's 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).

5. F Sionil Jose

Francisco Sionil José (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2022) was a Filipino writer who was one of the
most widely read in the English language. A National Artist of the Philippines for Literature, which was
bestowed upon him in 2001, José's novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class
struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. His works—written in English—have been translated into
28 languages, including Korean, Indonesian, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and Dutch.
6. Juan Crisostomo Soto
 Si Juan Crisostomo "Crissot" Caballa Soto ay isinilang sa Santa Ines, Bacolor, Pampanga noong 27
Enero 1867. Tinagurian siyang Ama ng Panitikang Capampangan. Pambihira ang kanyang kahusayan
sa pagtatalong patula sa wikang Capampangan kung kaya ang pagtatalong patula sa wikang
Capampangan ay tinawag na Crissotan na katumbas ng Balagtasan sa wikang Tagalog. Isa siyang
manunulat-makata, mandudula at editor sa wikang Kapampangan
His best-known works are the zarzuela Alang Dios!; the novel Lidia; the play Delia; the short story
Y' Miss Phathupats; and the poem Malaya. Soto edited three newspapers, El Pueblo, El Imparcial,
and Ing Alipatpat.

7. Angela Manalang Gloria (1907–1995)

was a Filipina poet who wrote in English.

She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her
denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine Commonwealth Literary Awards in 1940. She was
also the author of the poetry collection, Poems, first published in 1940 (and revised in 1950). The
collection contained the best of her early work as well as unpublished poems were written between
1934 and 1938. Her last poem, Old Maid Walking on a City Street can also be found in the collection.
This boo k was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing to Rafael Zulueta y da Costa's
verse Like the Molave.

Region 2 Cagayan Valley

- Edith Cutaran Lopez-Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011), was a Filipino poet, fiction writer,
teacher and literary critic in the English language. She was conferred the National Artist Award for
Literature in 1999.

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

- Florentino H. Hornedo. (16 October 1938 – 09 December 2015). A native of Batanes, Flor
Hornedo (as he was fondly called) was an esteemed professor of literature, history, philosophy,
and cultural studies at Ateneo de Manila University.
He was a prolific writer, researcher and author of journal articles, monographs and books such
as “Laji: An Ivatan Folk Lyric Tradition” (1979), “Pagmamahal and Pagmumura Essays” (1997),
“Culture and Community in the Philippine Fiesta and Other Celebrations” (2000), “Taming the
Wind: Ethno-Cultural History on the Ivatan of the Batanes Isles” (2000), “The Glitter of Gold in
Batanes Cultural Heritage” (2000), “The Favor of the Gods: Essays in Filipino Religious Thought
and Behavior” (2001), “Ideas and Ideals: Essays in Filipino Cognitive History” (2001),
“Pagpapakatao and Other Essays in Contemporary Philosophy and Literature of Ideas” (2001)
and “Epics and Ballads of Lam-ang’s Land and People (Bago-o Traditional Literature of the
Bakun and Amburayan River Valleys)” (2006).

Region 3 Central Luzon

-Francisco Balagtas
Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz, commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltasar, was
a Filipino Tagalog litterateur and poet during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is widely
considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on Filipino literature. What are Francisco
Balagtas famous works?
The most notable of his works, "Florante at Laura" or "Pinagdaanang Buhay ni Florante at Laura sa
Kaharian ng Albanya" has been published in numerous editions from its original publication in 1838.

Region 4 MIMAROPA
Néstor Vicente Madali González was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist and, poet. Conferred as
the National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 1997.
Major works of N.V.M Gonzalez include the following: The Winds of April, Seven Hills Away, Children of
the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories, The Bamboo Dancers, Look Stranger, on this Island Now,
Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty -One Stories, The Bread of Salt and Other Stories, Work on the Mountain,
The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994, A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories.

Region 5
Potenciano Gregorio, often referred to as Potenciano Gregorio Sr. (May 19, 1880 - February 12, 1939) was
a Bicolano musician. He was the composer of "Sarung Banggi" (One Evening), the most famous song in
the Bikol language.

Cordillera Administration Region

Andres Bonifacio
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro was a Filipino Freemason and revolutionary leader. He is often called "The
Father of the Philippine Revolution” and considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines.
Two works of Bonifacio were published in the Kalayaan– “Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa” and “Ang Dapat
Mabatid ng mga Tagalog.”