= (1911 – 1944) was an Ilokano writer in English, patriot, and martyr.He married Lydia Villanueva, another talented writer in English, and they lived in Ermita, Manila. Here, F. Sionil José, another seminal Filipino writer in English, recalls often seeing him in the National Library, which was then in the basement of what is now the National Museum. "you couldn't miss him", Jose describes Arguilla, "because he had this black patch on his cheek, a birthmark or an overgrown mole. He was writing then those famous short stories and essays which I admired."
2. Leona Florentina ( Blasted Hopes)
= (April 19, 1849-October 4, 1884) was a Filipino poet in the Spanish and Ilocano languages. She is considered as the "mother of Philippine women's literature" and the "bridge from oral to literary tradition"
Born to a wealthy and prominent family in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Florentino began to write her first verses in Ilocano at a young age. Despite her potential, she was not allowed to receive a university education because of her gender. Florentino was instead tutored by her mother, and then a series of private teachers. An educated Ilocano priest taught her advanced Spanish and encouraged her to develop her voice in poetry.
3. Maria Magsano ( Her Last Words)
= was an educator, a writer, a woman leader who served as a Municipal Secretary before the World War I
As a young woman, she already served as president of big women's federation- the Women's Suffragists in Pangasinan. A woman suffragist, she is remembered as an outstanding leader who was in the forefront of the fight for women's suffrage in the 1930s. As a loyal and devoted champion for feminist causes, she was a recipient of a Presidential Citation during the celebration of Women's Rights Day in April 1930.
She organized and headed the Social Service Clubs among young and unmarried women, as well as women's clubs in the municipalities which are under the provincial organization. The Social Service Clubs provide service and food to the prisoners of war. Her cooperation in establishing peace and order was sought by the Japanese commander which she accepted in the belief that she was rendering service for the welfare and security of the people. After the World War II, however she was imprisoned for an unclear reason. It was suspected that the issue of collaboration was brought against her.
4. Evaristo Santiago ( Toring, the Ambition)
5. Francisco Sionil Jose ( Hero)
( = born December 3, 1924) is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His novels andshort stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. José's works - written in English - have been translated into 22 languages, including Korean, Indonesian, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch.
osé was born in Rosales, Pangasinan, the setting of many of his stories. He spent his childhood in Barrio Cabugawan, Rosales, where he first began to write. José was of Ilocano descent whose family had migrated to Pangasinan before his birth. Fleeing poverty, his forefathers traveled from Ilocos towards Cagayan Valleythrough the Santa Fe Trail. Like many migrant families, they brought their lifetime possessions with them, including uprooted molave posts of their old houses and their alsong, a stone mortar for pounding rice.
One of the greatest influences to José was his industrious mother who went out of her way to get him the books he loved to read, while making sure her family did not go hungry despite poverty and landlessness. José started writing in grade school, at the time he started reading. In the fifth grade, one of José’s teachers opened the school library to her students, which is how José managed to read the novels of José Rizal, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Faulkner and Steinbeck. Reading about Basilio and Crispin in Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere made the young José cry, because injustice was not an alien thing to him. When José was five years old, his grandfather who was a soldier during the Philippine revolution, had once tearfully showed him the land their family had once tilled but was taken away by rich mestizo landlords who knew how to work the system against illiterates like his grandfather
6. Leo De Los Angeles ( Crab Race)
7. Watus R. Sons ( Red Well)
8. Ronnie R. Padilla (Akis)
9. Gabriel Braganza ( On Rizal)
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10.Magno Ventura Cornel ( yourName)
=Magno Ventura Cornel, was first to concoct the ingredients for this kind of delicacy, was again chair of the "Pigar-Pigar" Festival.
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