1.Magdalena G. Jalandoni ( the Guitar)
Born to an affluent land-owning family in the former city of Jaro (Salog), now a present day district of Iloilo City, she began writing at a young age wherein she already had her poems published at the age of 12. She published her first novel Ang Mga Tunoc Sang Isa Ca Bulac (The Thorns of a Flower), which was later followed by many novels, compilations of poems and short stories. Jalandoni only wrote for publication purposes due to the male-dominated society at the time. Back then, female voices in literature were not taken seriously by the general public. Although her mother strictly forbade her to take literature seriously, she refused to do so and devoted her life entirely to literature.
In her childhood autobiography Ang Matam-is Kong Pagkabata (My
Sweet Childhood), she cites: "I will be forced to write when I feel
that my nose is being assaulted by the scent of flowers, when my sight
is filled with the promises of the sun and when my soul is lifted by
winged dreams to the blue heavens."
Her famous poem Ang Guitara (The Guitar) is read in classrooms
all over the country today. Literary critics and historians claim that
she has mastered a special talent for poetry and description as well as
dramatic evocations of landscapes and events in her novels and short
stories. Her works span from the coming of Malay settlers in the Middle
Ages up to the Spanish and American colonial era as well as the Japanese
occupation of World War II, all portraying the history of Panay and the evolution of the Ilonggo culture. According to Riitta Varitti of the Finnish-Philippine Society in Helsinki, "Jalandoni was the most productive Philippine writer of all time."
Other famous works include Anabella, Sa Kapaang Sang Inaway (In the Heat of War), Ang Dalaga sa Tindahan (The Young Woman in the Market) and Ang Kahapon ng Panay
(The Past of Panay). Throughout her turbulent and displaced life, she
still managed to publish 36 novels, 122 short stories, 7 novelettes, 7
long plays, 24 short plays and dialogos in verse complied in two
volumes, seven volumes of personally compiled essays including some
translations from Spanish and two autobiographies. She has been
displaced from her hometown twice and has survived the Philippine
Revolution, the Filipino-American War and the Japanese Occupation. In
1977, she received the prestigious Republic Cultural Heritage Award
for her literary achievements from the government, about one year
before her death. She is now survived by a few nieces as well as several
other close relatives. Despite all this, she still remains relatively
unknown up to this day. Her family's ancestral house still stands as a
historical landmark and museum not far from the cathedral of Jaro.
A street at the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex in Pasay City, Philippines is named in her honor.
2.Ariston Em. Echawarria ( Bamboo Leaves)
3. Flavio Zaragosa Cano (poor nest)
He decided to study law under the influence of his teacher, Manuel Locsin. He sailed for Manila in 1910 where he enrolled in the Law School and later at the College of Law.
He worked as a young man in the Philippine Pharmacy Binondo , while teaching at the College Commercial to finance their studies.
His journalistic career began with contributions he made to the Filipino Renaissance Magazine. Later he was a journalist for La Vanguardia, and director of the Bicol Herald and two newspapers published in ilongo , La Nueva Fuerza and El Heraldo.
He abandoned his studies in 1914 to marry Josefa Francisco, and moved to Albay where he ran a printing and management of the newspaper El Heraldo de BICOLANDIA. In 1916, he put a bazaar in Legazpi and Printing Monserrat.
He founded the first labor union in Bicol. He was appointed city clerk in his hometown Cabatuan in 1922, moving in the same position the municipality of Dumangas in Iloilo from 1923-1927.
Although not completed his law studies, he was awarded the title of notary public. Later, from 1931, he became private secretary to Senator Jose M. Arroyo.
It also acted as interpreter at the Court of First Instance of Iloilo , until 1935.
4.
George T. Calaor ( Sugarcane Cutter)
5.
Serapio c. Torre ( to my flag)
6.
Lucilla V. hosillos ( cry of the Dying turtle0
7.
Herbon G. samillano ( Run Along, Samuel)
8.
John iremil E. Teodoro ( in Antique)
(born November 14, 1973 in San Jose de Buenavista, Antique, Philippines) is a Filipino writer, university professor and freelance journalist. He is also a multi-awarded poet and playwright, one of the country's leading pioneers in gay literature and the most published author in Kinaray-a to date.
Born to a middle-class family in the province of Antique,
Teodoro gained early recognition as a highly-prized and well-published
writer during his college years. Among his first distinctions were the
Literature Grant of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Gawad Ka
Amado in 1993 for his early attempts in Filipino poetry. His first
full-length play in Filipino Ang Unang Ulan ng Mayo (The First Rain of May) won 2nd Place at the 1997 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of San Agustin in Iloilo City. He also holds a master's degree in Creative Writing from the De La Salle University-Manila where he graduated with high distinction.
He later worked as a journalist for the Bandillo ng Palawan-Edisiong Filipino in Puerto Princesa City, a controversial publication devoted to the advocacy of environmental concerns in the province of Palawan. In 2001, he returned to his alma mater
to work as an assistant professor in literature at the University of
San Agustin where he would later become the founding coordinator of the Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Institute,
Managing Director of the USA Publishing House and moderator of the
student publications. He also initiated the establishment of the San Agustin Writers Workshop with the intention of propagating the welfare of creative writing among young writers in Western Visayas.
His full-length play Belasyon, which dramatizes the country's
migratory diaspora was staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines
in 2003 as part of the USA Centennial Commission activities. In 2004, he
was recognized as one of the Outstanding Augustinians of the Century for his lifetime achievement in culture and the arts. He writes in four tongues, namely in English, Filipino, Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a. He is a member of the Alon Collective and the Tabig/Hubon Manunulat Antique. He is a five-time awardee of the prestigious Palanca Awards
and has published five books of poetry. Many of his literary works have
been published some of the country's leading journals, magazines and
newspapers. His poetry book Kung ang Tula ay Pwedeng Pambili ng Lalake (If Poems Could Buy Men) has been shortlisted at the 2007 Manila Critics Circle National Book Award.
9.
Milagros Geremia ( nevermind the moon )
10.
Alice Tan-Gonzales ( Charge)
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