SHORT STORY of Maganda and Mayari 

Once upon a time, a long time ago there lived a beautiful maiden named Maganda. Maganda  lived in the city of Athens in a country named Greece -- and although there were many pretty girls in the city,,Maganda was considered the most lovely.

Unfortunately, Maganda was very proud of her beauty and thought or spoke of little else.  Each day she boasted of how pretty she was and each day her boasts became more outrageous.

On Sunday, Maganda  bragged to the miller that her skin was more beautiful than fresh fallen snow.  On Monday, she told the cobbler that her hair glowed brighter than the sun.  On Tuesday, she commented to the blacksmith’s son that her eyes were greener than the Aegean Sea.  On Wednesday, she boasted to everyone at the public gardens that her lips were redder than the reddest rose.

When she wasn’t busy sharing her thoughts about her beauty with all who passed by,  Maganda would gaze lovingly at her reflection in the mirror.  She admired herself in her hand mirror for an hour each morning as she brushed her hair.  She admired herself in her darkened window for an hour each evening as she got ready for bed.  She even stopped to admire herself in the well each afternoon as she drew water for her father's horses -- often forgetting to fetch the water in her distraction.

On and on Maganda  went about her beauty to anyone and everyone who stopped long enough to hear her -- until one day when she made her first visit to the Kaluwalhatian with her friends. The Kaluwalhatian was the largest temple to the goddess Mayari in all the land.  It was decorated with amazing sculptures and paintings.  Everyone who entered was awed by the beauty of the place and couldn’t help but think of how grateful they were to Mayari, Beautiful Divinity, for inspiring them and for watching over their city of Kaluwalhatian.  Everyone, that is, except Maganda.

When Maganda saw the sculptures, she whispered that she would have made a much better subject for the sculptor than Mayari had.  When  Maganda saw the artwork, she commented that the artist had done a fine job considering the goddess's thick eyebrows -- but imagine how much more wonderful the painting would be if it was of someone as delicate as Maganda .

And when Maganda reached the altar she sighed happily and said, “My this is a beautiful temple.  It is a shame it was wasted on kaluwalhatian for I am so much prettier than she is – perhaps some day people will build an even grander temple to my beauty.”

Maganda's friends Ikapati,Dian Masalanta,Silangan,Idianale,Anitun-tabu grew pale.  The priestesses who overheard  Maganda gasped.  Whispers ran through all the people in the temple who quickly began to leave -- for everyone knew that Mayari enjoyed watching over the people of kaluwalhatian and feared what might happen if the goddess had overheard Maganda’s rash remarks.

Before long the temple was empty of everyone except Maganda, who was so busy gazing proudly at her reflection in the large bronze doors that she hadn't noticed the swift departure of everyone else.  The image she was gazing at wavered and suddenly, instead of her own features, it was the face of Mayari that Maganda saw reflected back at her.

“Vain and foolish girl,” Mayari said angrily, “You think you are prettier than I am! I doubt it to be true, but even if it were -- there is more to life than beauty alone.  While others work and play and learn, you do little but boast and admire yourself.”

Maganda tried to point out that her beauty was an inspiration to those around her and that she made their lives better by simply looking so lovely, but Mayari silenced her with a frustrated wave.

“Nonsense,” Mayari retorted, “Beauty fades swiftly in all mortals.  It does not comfort the sick, teach the unskilled or feed the hungry.  And by my powers, your loveliness shall be stripped away completely.  Your fate shall serve as a reminder to others to control their pride.”

And with those words Maganda’s face changed to that of a hideous monster.  Her hair twisted and thickened into horrible snakes that hissed and fought each other atop her head.

“Maganda, for your pride this has been done.  Your face is now so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it will turn a man to stone,” proclaimed the goddess, “Even you, Maganda, should you seek your reflection, shall turn to rock the instant you see your face.”

• And with that, Mayari sent Maganda with her hair of snakes to live with the blind monsters -- the gorgon sisters -- at the ends of the earth, so that no innocents would be accidentally turned to stone at the sight of her.

CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO AUTHORS

REGION I - ILOCOS

  1. Manuel A. Arguilla ( Rice ) 

  = (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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REGION II - CAGAYAN VALLEY

1. Fernando M. Maramag Fernando  Maramag  was  an  excellent  poet  and  journalist  in  English.    He  had  a  rich  style 
and deep understanding of human nature – qualities which made his poetry appealing to all
readers.  On the other hand, his editorial writings “exerted great influence on the various phases
of the Filipino way of life, particularly in its government, economics, education and politics,”
according to a critic.

He was born on January 21, 1893 in Ilagan, Isabela, to Rafael Maramag and Victoria
Mamuri, a Spanish mestiza.  His parents were wealthy landowners.
At  age  seven,  he  was  enrolled  in  a  public  school in his hometown.  He finished his high
school  in  1908.    He  was  15  when  he  entered  the  Philippine  Normal  School.    However,  at  the
insistence of his father, he transferred to the University of the Philippines.
At UP he started writing for the school organ.  A brilliant student, he later became its
editor-in-chief.  Among his equally brilliant classmates, were Pilar Hidalgo-Lim and Jose Hilario.
Together, they managed the school newspaper.
At age 21, he was named principal of the Instituto de Manila, a prestigious school for
gifted and well-off students.    Later,  he  became  an  English  professor  at UP. He  also  taught  at  San
Juan de Letran.  During this time, he met and married Constancia Ablaza, by whom he had six
children. 

                                                  

2. Leona Florentino 
(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.

Florentino married a politician named Elias de los Reyes at the age of 14. They had five children together. Their son Isabelo de los Reyes later became a Filipino writer, activist and senator. Due to the feminist nature of her writings, Florentino was shunned by her husband and son; she lived alone in exile and separately from her family. She died at the age of 35

3. Gregorio Aglipay 

                                    

 (Latin: Gregorius Aglipay; 5 May 1860 – 1 September 1940) was a former Roman Catholic priest who became the first FilipinoSupreme Bishop of the Philippine Independent Church, a Christian Protestant sect in the form of a national church in the country.

Known for inciting patriotic rebellion among the Filipino clergy, he was also a political activist who became acquainted with Isabelo de los Reyes, who would start aProtestant church named after Aglipay in 1902.

Aglipay was previously excommunicated by Archbishop of Manila Bernardino Norzaleda y Villa on May 1899, upon the expressed permission of Pope Leo XIII. Aglipay later joined the Freemason Order in May 1918. Aglipay later married Pilar Jamias y Ver from Sarrat, Ilocos Norte in 1939 and then died one year later. Followers of Aglipay through the Philippine Independent Church colloquially sometimes refer to their membership as Aglipayans.

               

4. Emmanuel F. Lacaba  December 10, 1948 – March 18, 1976), popularly known as Eman Lacaba, was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, playwright, fictionist, scriptwriter, songwriter and activist and he is considered as the only poet warrior of the Philippines.

5. Ines Taccad Cammayo 
    Camus and his wife secretly prided themselves in being, of all the residents in their barrio, the only ones who had really known and lived with people of consequence.

When he was a young man, Camus had been the houseboy of a German haciendero. The German who was a bachelor had often told Camus that his punishments were for his own good because he must learn to shed his indolent and clumsy ways if he ever hoped to amount to anything. Unfortunately, before he could learn more from his stern master, his father wrote to say that he must come home right away because his bethrothed was waiting. The German had mouthed unintelligible, guttural curses which Camus listened to with mixed feelings of shame and pleasure because it meant that he was wanted after all, but in the end, the German sent him off with a de hilo cerrada suit, a heavy pair of boots capacious enough to let him wiggle his gnarled toes in, and two months extra pay which came handy fox the wedding celebrations. That was twenty years ago, shortly before the war, and although Camus had all the intentions to see the German off when he left for his country, the expense and the effort turned out to him, at the last minute, discouraging. In the meantime, Camus and his wife were themselves becoming people of consequence.                                    

         

6. Alfred Yuson Born on 23 February 1945 in Manila . (Also known as Krip Yuson.) He has authored 23 books, including novels, poetry collections, short fiction, essays, and children's stories, apart from having edited various other titles. Yuson was conferred the Southeast Asia Write Award (SEA Write) in 1992 in Bangkok, and has been elevated to the Hall of Fame of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines ‘ most prestigious literary distinction. He has frequently represented the Philippines in Literary conferences, festivals and reading tours in the United States, Japan, China, Finland, Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Columbia, and his works may be found in many international anthologies.                                                  
7. Norman Wilwayco 

 Norman Wilwayco, aside from being a multiple Palanca award winner (one being the prestigious Grand Prize for the novel in 2002), plays bass for a rock and roll band and designs multimedia web sites. He also writes for Filmless Films. He previously wrote for the popular television show Batibot and has contributed articles to Liwayway, Manila Times and Inquirer. He was a fellow of the UP Writers Workshop and won the first prize in the Amado Hernandez Award for Literature in 1999.                

8. Naya S. Valdellon 
Naya S. Valdellon grew up in Manila, Philippines and has worked as a magazine editorial assistant, freelance copy editor, content writer for a website design company, and literature and writing composition teacher. She graduated in 2002 with a BFA in Creative Writing from the Ateneo de Manila University, where she was Associate Editor of Heights -- the university's official literary publication. She was a fellow for poetry in English in the 38th UP National Writers Workshop (2001) and the 41st Dumaguete National Writers Workshop (2002).

She is a recent M.A. in English and Creative Writing graduate now based in Toronto, Canada. She loves cats, cooking, chess, crosswords, and crazy concoctions. 

9. Ana Marie Villanueva-Lykes A BS computer science degree holder, Ana Maria Villanueva-Lykes discovered the world of words only five years ago. Since then she has been published in The Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Reader's Digest, and several collections and anthologies. She trained with the Philippine Daily Inquirer for two years before she moved on to other publications. She currently works as editor-in-chief for AsianTraveler Magazine and La Salle 's Rektikano Magazine.

Her novel, Caracol, earned her an outstanding thesis award for her MFA degree in Creative Writing at De La Salle University in 2008. She is a fellow of the 7 th Iyas Creative Writing Workshop and the 44 th U.P. National Writers Workshop.

                                                   
10. Amado Vinuya 

       Amado Vinuya was born in Manila in 1930. He studied in the University of Santo Tomas and the Far Eastern University. He served as editor and public information officer of the Manila Health Department. A versatile worker, he has also been a laborer, sanitary inspector, laboratory technician, clerk, and radio announcer. Vinuya also wrote fiction. He has a poetry collection, with preface written by Carlos P. Romulo, entitled Pregnant Woman and Other Poems (1968).                                           

REGION III - CENTRAL LUZON


      1. Rony Diaz ( The Carpenter)
        = is an award-winning Filipino writer. He has won several Palanca Awards. He joined the paper in 2001 as executive director. He eventually became publisher and president of the Manila Times School of Journalism. He has taught English at U.P. Diliman and has worked for the Philippine government as a foreign service corp.He is the author of the story "The Centipede"

      2. Virgilio Almario ( Oyaying Tagalog)

      = better known by his pen name, RIO ALMA, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is aNational Artist of the Philippines.Growing up in Bulacan among peasants, Almario sought his education at Manila and completed his degree in A.B. Political Science at the University of the Philippines.His life as a poet started when he took master’s course in education at the University of the East where he became associated with Rogelio G. Mangahas and Lamberto E. Antonio.A prolific writer, he spearheaded the second successful modernist movement in Filipino poetry together with Rogelio Mangahas and Teo Antonio. His earliest pieces of literary criticism were collected in Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina (1972), now considered the first book of literary criticism in Filipino. Later, in the years of martial law, he set aside modernism and formalism and took interest in nationalism, politics and activist movement. As critic, his critical works deal with the issue of national language.Aside from being a critic, Almario engaged in translating and editing. He has translated the best contemporary poets of the world. He has also translated for theater production the plays of Nick Joaquin, Bertolt Brecht, Euripedes and Maxim Gorki. Other important translations include the famous works of the Philippines' national hero, José Rizal, namely Noli Me Tangere and El filibusterismo. It was deemed as the best translation by the Manila Critics Circle.Almario has been a recipient of numerous awards such as several Palanca Awards, two grand prizes from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Makata ng Taon of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, the TOYM for literature, and the Southeast Asia Write Award of Bangkok.He was an instructor at the LAGAO CENTRAL ELEMANTARY SCHOOL from 1969-1972. He only took his M.A. in Filipino in 1974 in the University of the Philippines. In 2003, he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Letters in the said university. On June 25 of the same year, he was proclaimed National Artist for Literature.Almario is also the founder and workshop director of the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA), an organization of poets who write in Filipino. Award-winning writers and poets such as Roberto and Rebecca Añonuevo, Romulo Baquiran Jr., Michael Coroza, Jerry Gracio, and Vim Nadera are but some of the products of the LIRA workshop.He was a founding member of the Gallan sa Arte at Tula (GAT), along with fellow poets Teo Antonio and Mike Bigornia.

     3. Pedro L. Ricarte ( Eksistensiya)  

4.   4.  David T. Mamaril (PAgbabagumbuhay)

.     5. Oscar De Zuniga ( Confusion at Sunrise)
 (     May 30, 1922 - July 23, 2007), was a registered professional engineer and land surveyor who played an important role in the construction of several residential neighborhoods in his native Laredo, Texas. In 1988, he was honored by his peers as "Engineer of the Decade" by the Gateway Chapter of Professional Engineers.

      6. Rofel G. Brion ( biyernes Santo)

Rofel G. Brion was born in 1953 in San Pablo, in the Philippines. Although his mother tongue is the local Filipino, he began to write in English, the language of his early education, at 12 years of age. It was only as a young adult that he started to consider Filipino as a literary language. For this reason, after he had finished his economic studies, he decided to study Philippine Literature at the Ateneo de Manila University. His graduation from the Creative Writing Center of the University of the Philippines was again in the fields of English Language and Literature.

In 1982 Brion won the Gawad Galian sa Tula Poetry Prize. His first volume of poetry, »Baka Sakali« (1990; t: Maybe by Chance), was awarded the National Book Award. Seven years later his second book »Story« was published. This title accurately identifies a characteristic property of Brion’s poems. They are stories in verse form – lyrical snapshots that capture special moments. Using this form he mainly uses language to denote objects and occurences – as opposed to modernistic and avantgarde trends – which takes on a characteristic of ritual. »I write about my life, my family, my friends, my travels, my loves; events that make me happy; events that make me cry; events that may never really come to be. I write mostly about small, ordinary events, and in doing so, I capture them. I hold on to them and never let them go. And this, I guess, is how I pay homage to them.« This admired designation reveals various aspects in Brion's bilingual writings. In the as yet less appreciated mother tongue Filipino, the denotation of the names of ordinary things and experiences, betokens a conscious effort to overcome colonial repression. Simultaneously an awareness of Philippino culture is created. The poems written in the other official language of the Philippines, English, demonstrate a confident exposure to the reality of a country which is widely influenced by American culture. With their often humorous tone, the poems give a forgiving and constructive example of creating an own national identity. In the anthology »Returning a Borrowed Tongue« (1995), Brion’s poems are arranged exemplarily in the rich tradition of English-speaking Philippine and American-Philippine verse. He recently published »Sandali: Mga Pili at Bagong Tula« (2006; t: Moment: Selected and New Poems).

.  7. Raz Marquez Benitez ( Dead Stars)

Born in 1894 in Lucena City, Quezon. Marquez - Benítez authored the first Filipino modern English language short story, Dead Stars, published in the Philippine Herald in 1925. Born into the prominent Marquez family of Quezon province, she was among the first generation of Filipino people trained in the American education system which used English as the medium of instruction. She graduated high school in Tayabas High School now, Quezon National High School and college from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. "Marquez"Benitez. She was a member of the first freshman class of the University of the Philippines, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912.

Two years after graduation, she married UP College of Education Dean Francisco Benítez with whom she had four children.

Márquez-Benítez later became a teacher at the University of the Philippines, who taught short-story writing and had become an influential figure to many Filipino writers in the English language, such as Loreto Paras-Sulit, Paz M. Latorena Arturo Belleza Rotor,Bienvenido N. Santos and Francisco Arcellana. The annually held Paz Marquez-Benitez Lectures in the Philippines honors her memory by focusing on the contribution of Filipino women writers to Philippine Literature in the English language.

Though she only had one more published short story after “Dead Stars” entitled "A Night In The Hills", she made her mark in Philippine literature because her work is considered the first modern Philippine short story.

For Marquez-Benitez, writing was a lifelong occupation. In 1919 she founded "Woman's Home Journal", the first women's magazine in the country. Also in the same year, she and other six women who were prominent members of Manila's social elites, namely Clara Aragon, Concepcion Aragon, Francisca Tirona Benitez, Carolina Ocampo Palma, Mercedes Rivera, and Socorro Marquez Zaballero, founded the Philippine Women's College now Philippine Women's University. "Filipino Love Stories", reportedly the first anthology of Philippine stories in English by Filipinos, was compiled in 1928 by Marquez-Benitez from the works of her students.

When her husband died in 1951, she took over as editor of the Philippine Journal of Education at UP. She held the editorial post for over two decades.

In 1995, her daughter, Virginia Benitez-Licuanan wrote her biography, "Paz Marquez-Benitez: One Woman's Life, Letters, and Writings."

. 8.Rogelio Sukat ( ang Kura at ang Agwador)

also known as Rogelio Sícat) (1940-1997) is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. He was born to Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez on June 26, 1940 in Alua, San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He is the sixth of eight children. Sicat graduated with a B.Litt. in Journalism from the University of Santo Tomas and an M.A. in Filipino from the University of the Philippines.

Sikat received numerous literary prizes but he was particularly remembered for "Impeng Negro", his 1962 Palanca awardwinning short fiction in Filipino (Tagalog). Many of his ground-breaking stories first appeared in Liwayway, a long-running magazine with a particularly strong Tagalog literary section. A posthumous appreciation of Sicat's achievements were highlighted by award-winning writer Lilia Quindoza-Santiago in Living and Dying as a Writer." The article appeared in Pen & Ink III.

Sikat was University Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines in Diliman from 1991 to 1994. U.P. College of Mass Communication Professor Angelito Tiongson worked on a feature film Isang Munting Lupa based on Sicat's Tata Selo, another prizewinning story . Playwright and film/theater director Auraeus Solito, on the other hand, created a short film narrative based on "Impeng Negro" in 1999. Sikat was posthumously awarded the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Award for Translation in 1998.

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    9.Michael L. Bigornia ( Ang Kastilyo)

(born 16 May 1950 in Bangued, Abra, Philippines) is a Filipino poet, editor, fictionist and translator. Bigornia was educated at the University of the East where he finished political science.

He was the immediate past chairman of the Unyon ng Mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas (UMPIL), and the recipient of several Palanca Awards.

He also won National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle for his collection of prose poems, Prosang Itim (Anvil) and Punta-Blanko. Bigornia, the Makata ng Taon in 1986, was a founding member of the Gallan sa Arte at Tula (GAT), along with fellow poets Virgilio Almario and Teo Antonio. He also worked as managing director for Phoenix Publishing House.

.  10. Aniceto Silvestre (Ang Agos Sa Libis)

was born in San Mateo , (which is now Rizal Province) on April 17 , 1898 . Although there was no formal education in writing, he had written and contributed to the literature wonderful Filipino poetry, short stories, novels and essays.
His poems gathered this set of Nature were grouped into eight: Free, Sexy, Pictures of Life, Beat Of Love, Reconstruction of faith, a sign of hope, On the Path of Greatness and Blood Radiance days.
The honor achieved by Aniceto F. Silvestre writing poetry four First Awards (previous to the war): a Third Rewards (during the Commonwealth government): A First Reward (10th year of the Republic of the Philippines), and a First Reward Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 1969