REGION VII - CENTRAL VISAYAS

1.Piux Kabahar ( Cebuano Life)

2.Hilda Montaire ( Flowers by the wayside)

(born April 13, 1922) is a Filipino writer who often uses the pseudonym Rosa Montes. She considers fellow Cebuana writer Maria Kabigon to be a major influence.

Born in Mandaue, Cebu City, Montaire studied at the Colegio de la Immaculada Concepcion in Cebu City, where she edited Blue and White, the CIC school paper, Far Eastern University and the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.

Montaire began writing at an early age. Her career took off after World War II when her short stories and serialized novels were published in Bisaya magazine. Her novel Ikaduhang Sugo was published by E. Q. Cornejo and Sons in 1971.

Montaire worked at numerous radio stations and was at one time the host of “Ang Mga Tambag ni Inday Loling,” an advice program.

3.Ricardo Baladjay ( Gifts of the night)

4.Don Pagusara ( dawn breaking)
was born in the city of Tangub in Misamis Occidental . Was a multi-awarded author of the Binisaya , Tinagalog and Iningles.

 His first volume of the plan giulohag thorns heart and mind. It means that nagbatbat volume og kasinatian to surrender, being imprisoned political detainee whether he minded martial law at that time (1974-1979).
His second volume of the title plan nagdalag heart Period, Period of heart, and nanghinungod the kasinatian the people within the time of President Cory Aquino those lips that he gilusad total war policy.

5.Temistockles Adlawan (Fisherman)
is a contemporary Cebuano poet who often writes with irreverent humor usually associated with Cebuano folk. Some of his writings expresses a greater sensitivity to gender issues.

He is a Bathalan-ong Halad sa Dagang (BATHALAD) member and is active in writers' workshops sponsored by the Women in Literary Arts (WILA) and the Cebuano Studies Center of the University of San Carlos, Cebu City.

6.Robert  pableo lim ( About yoyoy)

7.Fe Remottique ( shade)

8.Semion Dumdum Jr. ( The lipos of the City)

(born March 7, 1948) is a Regional Trial Court Executive Judge in Cebu City, The Philippines, and a published poet. He once studied for the priesthood in Galway, Ireland, but left the seminary to take up law. After years of practicing law, he was appointed Regional Trial Court judge in Cebu. He won prizes for his poetry, which he has published and read abroad.

9.Vicente Sotto ( The Pulahan )
Author of The Sotto Law,The Press Freedom Law,RA 53) (1877-1950) was a former Senator of the Philippines, and considered as one of the greatest Cebuanos of the 20th century. He was a man of protean accomplishments:"Father of modern Cebuano Literature",prolific writer and publisher,pioneering labor leader,renowned lawyer and quintessential principled politician.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Sotto#References

His principal achievement lies in two areas: (1) law, politics, and government; and (2) culture and letters.

Senator Vicente Yap Sotto is considered one of the Unsung Heroes of the Philippines. WikiPilipinas refers to Senator Vicente Sotto as one of the so-called “Forgotten” People in Philippine history – people who, unfortunately, were not given much attention in traditional studies and mainstream histories, but are equally heroic in their own simple yet significant ways. (

He was called the "most militant and aggressive" of the Filipino advocates of complete and immediate independence in the first decades of the 20th century.His contemporaries called him the "Great Dissenter",an archetypal political oppositionist who fought for his convictions with little regard of the cost.A fighter of lost causes and "defender of the poor and oppressed", he was one of the most active and best-known criminal lawyers of his time

10.Marcel m. Navarra (the Awakening)

In katag-og as quality of his writings in his time, he giila "Father of modern panugilanon to Binisaya" his contemporary. He's masterpiece "The Hunsoy Pagasungsongan Again", "And I Gianod", UBP. just a few of his ginasaulog sugilanon.