1. Jose Figuera ( Song)
= born Sept. 25, 1906, San Ramón, C.Rica—died June 8, 1990, San José), moderate socialist Costa Rican statesman who served as president of a governing junta in 1948–49 and as constitutional president in 1953–58 and 1970–74.
2. Manuel Fuentebella ( the Bow and Arrow)
= Manuel Fuentebella was a doctor and a Representative who served in the 7th (1925-1928) and 8th(1928-1931) Philippine Legislature during the American colonial period. He was also known to be an orator and a poet in Bikol and Spanish. HIs parents were Mariano Fuentebella and Perpetua Tria, both natives of Sangay, Camarines Sur. His father also served as governor of Ambos Camarines (1912-1916) and gobernadorcillo of Sangay during the Spanish times.
3. Mario Goyena Del Prado ( no…Don’t)
4. Merlinda C. Bobis ( Daragang Magayon
Born in Legaspi City, in the Philippines province of Albay, Merlinda Bobis attended Bicol University High School then completed her B.A. at Aquinas University in Legaspi City. She holds post-graduate degrees from the University of Santo Tomas and University of Wollongong, and now lives in Australia. Written in various genres in both Filipino and English, her work integrates elements of the traditional culture of the Philippines with modern immigrant experience.Also a dancer and visual artist, Bobis currently teaches at Wollongong University. Her play Rita's Lullaby was the winner of the 1998 Awgie for Best Radio Play and the international Prix Italia of the same year; in 2000 White Turtle won the Steele Rudd Award for the Best Collection of Australian Short Stories and the 2000 Philippine National Book Award. Most recently, in 2006, she has received the Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Book Award, Philippines) for her latest novel Banana Heart Summer, from the Book Development Association of the Philippines.
5. Jazmin Llana ( Memories)
is an executive assistant for External Affairs and director of the Center for Culture and the Arts at the Aquinas University of Legazpi in Legazpi
City. She is a Ford Foundation International fellow of the Department
of Theatre, Film, and Television Shows of the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, Wales in United Kingdom. She has a Master of Arts degree in
Theater Arts from the University of the Philippines, Diliman
and used to be part of the World Theater Project of Dr. Anton Juan. She
has also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of the
Aquinas University of Legazpi in Legazpi City.
She is known as a director and a writer. One of her recent memorable works as director was the Kantada ni Daragang Magayon, Mandirigma from Merlinda Bobis epic poem Cantata of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon. She is identified with contemporary Bikol writing and a member of the Kabulig-Bikol, the association of Bikol writers.
6. Leo R. Pura ( night)
7. Biienuenido N. Santos ( the Prisoners)
=(1911–1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.
Santos received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of the Philippines where he first studied creative writing under Paz Marquez Benitez. In 1941, Santos was a government pensionado (scholar) to the United States at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. During World War II, he served with the Philippine government in exile under President Manuel L. Quezon in Washington, D.C., together with the playwright Severino Montano and Philippine National Artist Jose Garcia Villa.
8. Kerima Polotan ( Small Town Filipinos)
= (December 16, 1925 – August 19, 2011) was a Filipino author. She was a renowned and highly respected fictionist, essayist, and journalists, with her works having received among the highest literary distinctions of the Philippines. Some of her stories have been published under the pseudonym Patricia S. Torres.
Born in Jolo, Sulu, she was christened Putli Kerima. Her father was an army colonel, and her mother taught home economics. Due to her father's frequent transfers in assignment, she lived in various places and studied in the public schools of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Laguna, Nueva Ecija and Rizal.She graduated from the Far Eastern University Girls' High School. In 1944, she enrolled in the University of the Philippines School of Nursing, but the Battle of Manila put a halt to her studies. In 1945, she transferred schools to Arellano University, where she attended the writing classes of Teodoro M. Locsin and edited the first issue of the Arellano Literary Review She worked with Your Magazine, This Weekand the Junior Red Cross Magazine.In 1949, she married newsman Juan Capiendo Tuvera, a childhood friend and fellow writer, with whom she had 10 children, among them the fictionist Katrina Tuvera.
9. Ricardo Lee ( bilanggo)
=Lee grew up with his relatives in Daet, Camarines Norte. His mother died when he was 5 years old and only saw his father on few occasions. He studied primary and secondary school in the same town. It was said that Lee often sneaks into movie houses and bury himself in books at the school library, tearing away pages with striking images. An intelligent student, he consistently topped his class from grade school on to high school. His promising writing career took a first step when he won his first national literary award for a short story he wrote when he was still in high school. Driven by his passion to pursue dreams, he ran away from home and took a bus to Manila. He roamed the streets, taking on menial tasks as a waiter during the day and asking his town mates to accommodate him during the night until he collapsed one day in Avenida out of hunger.He was accepted at University of the Philippines-Diliman as an AB English Major but never got his diploma from U.P. where, ironically enough, he later taught script writing at its College of Mass Communication. He became an activist during those politically turbulent times and was affiliated with Panulat para sa Kaunlaran ng Sambayanan (PAKSA, or Pen for People's Progress) along with Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera and Jose F. Lacaba. He lived as a fugitive during theMartial Law years and was later incarcerated. All these experiences would prove to be a wealthy source of inspiration from which to draw his stories and characters.
10.
Marne L. Lilates ( by Far, by finger, By mouth)
As freelance communications consultant, Kilates
has recently completed (2009) “Protecting the Protectors: The Story of
the
AFPMBAI from Seed to Fruition,” a coffee table book for the Armed Forces
and Police Mutual Benefit Association; and is at present editing a
coffee table book of poetry and paintings for the GSIS
Museum. He is also currently engaged as a Consultant-Writer (Special
Writing Projects) of the Information Office, Office of the Mayor Makati
City (writing audio-visual scripts, editing and
translating speeches, writing and translating the biography of the
Mayor); as well as various other marketing communications projects,
including communication campaigns for First Shelter Ventures,
Inc. (real estate and condominium development) and for the SCTEX
(Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway), under the Bases Conversion Development
Authority (BCDA).
In the recent past, he has strategized
communication campaigns and wrote for the information, education and
communication (IEC) requirements of the Protected Areas & Wildlife
Bureau, Department of the Environment & Natural Resources
(PAWB-DENR), which included an Avian Flu Prevention Campaign, an
Ecotourism Campaign, and a Biodiversity Communication Campaign. Kilates
has also conducted workshops for various clients/institutions including
the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
Philippines chapter (for Corporate English), and the
Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN), for communication planning
and message formulation.
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