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Lesson 3 Canonical Authors

This document provides information about canonical authors and works of Philippine national artists in literature. It identifies several Filipino writers who have been recognized as National Artists for their significant contributions to Philippine literature, including Nick Joaquin, N.V.M. Gonzales, F. Sionil Jose, Alejandro Roces, and others. It also discusses the criteria for being awarded the National Artist title and the honors and privileges that come with this recognition.

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Lesson 3 Canonical Authors

This document provides information about canonical authors and works of Philippine national artists in literature. It identifies several Filipino writers who have been recognized as National Artists for their significant contributions to Philippine literature, including Nick Joaquin, N.V.M. Gonzales, F. Sionil Jose, Alejandro Roces, and others. It also discusses the criteria for being awarded the National Artist title and the honors and privileges that come with this recognition.

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Lesson 2:

Canonical authors
and works of
Philippine
national artist In
literature
Objectives
At the end of this lesson, students must be able
to:
1. Identify the works of regional writers National
Artists for Literature;
2. Appreciate the contributions of the canonical
Filipino writers to the development of national
literature; and
3. Value the contributions of local writers to the
development of regional literary traditions
CANONICAL
- anything that is included in a
list of holy books that are
accepted as genuine
- works of literature that are
highly respected
CANONICAL AUTHORS
- Those who are highly esteemed
and well-respected writers whose
published works have contributed
greatly in the field of
literature
National Artist Award

-is the highest national


recognition given to Filipino
individuals who have made a
significant contributions to
the development of the
Philippine Literature.
Criteria for National Artist

1. Living artist who are Filipino citizens


at the time of nomination, as well as
those who died after the establishment
of the award in 1972 but were Filipino
citizens at the time of their death.
2. Artist who through the consent of their
works, have contributed in building a
Filipino sense of Nationhood.
3. Artist who have pioneered in mode of
creative expression or style, thus earning
distinction and making an impact on
succeeding generation of artists.
4. Artists who have created a substantial and
significant body of work or consistently
displayed excellence in the practice of their art
form thus enriching artistic expression or style.
5. Artists who enjoy broad acceptance through
 prestigious national and/or international
recognition, such as the Gawad CCP Para sa
Sining, CCP Thirteen Artist Award, and NCCA Alab
ng Haraya;
 Critical acclaim and reviews of their works
 Respect and esteem from their peers
Honors and Privileges

1.The rank and title National


Artist, as proclaimed by the
President of the Philippines.
2.The insignia of a National Artist
and a citation
3. Lifetime emolument and material and physical benefits
comparable in value to those received by the highest
officers of land such as:
 Cash award of 100,000 pesos for living awardees
 Cash award of 75,000 pesos for posthumous awardees,
payable to legal heirs
 A monthly life pension, medical and hospitalization
benefits
 Life insurance coverage for awardees who are still
insurable
 A state funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga
Bayani
 A place of honor
Insignia of a National Artist
– The insignia of the Order of
the National Artists is
composed of a Grand Collar
featuring circular links
portraying the arts, and an
eight-pointed conventionalized
sunburst suspended from a
sampaguita wreath in green and
white enamel.
Insignia of a National Artist
– The central badge is a medallion
divided into three equal portions,
red, white, and blue, recalling the
Philippine flag, with three
stylized letter Ks—the “KKK” stands
for the CCP’s motto: “katotohanan,
kabutihan, at kagandahan” (“the
true, the good, and the
beautiful”), as coined by then
first lady Mrs. Imelda Romualdez
Marcos, the CCP’s founder.
COUNTRY’S
NATIONAL
ARTISTS
Filipino National Artist and their
Works
AMADO VERA HERNANDEZ (1973)
• September 13, 1903- May 24, 1970
• “Makata ng Manggagawa”
• poet, playwright, and novelist
• practiced “committed art”
• In his view, the function of the writer
is to act as the conscience of society of
society and to affirm the greatness of
the human spirit in the face of inequity
and oppression.
• Mga Ibong Mandaragit is the first
Filipino socio-political novel that
exposes the ills of society as evident in
the agrarian problems of the 50s
JOSE GARCIA VILLA (1973)
• August 5, 1908-February 7, 1997
• Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion)
• one of the finest contemporary poets
regardless of race or language
• introduced the reversed consonance,
including the comma poems that made
full use of the punctuation mark in
an innovative, poetic way
NICK JOAQUIN (1976)
• May 4, 1917- April 29, 2004
• the most distinguished Filipino
writer in English writing so variedly
and so well about so many aspects of
the Filipino
• Enriched the English language critics
coining “Joaquinesque” to describe
his baroque Spanish-flavored English
or reinventions of English based on
Filipinisms.
• His significance in literature
involves exploration of the
Philippine colonial past under Spain
and his probing into the psychology
of social changes as seen by the
young
• Quijano de Manila
Famous Works
• The Woman Who Had Two Navels
• A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
• Manila, My Manila: A History for the
Young
• The Ballad of the Five Battles
• Rizal in Saga
• Almanac for Manileños
• Cave and Shadows
CARLOS P. ROMULO (1982)
• January 14, 1899- December 15, 1985
• His multifaceted career spanned 50
years of public service as educator,
soldier, university president,
journalist and diplomat.
• First Asian President of the United
Nations General Assembly, then
Philippine Ambassador to Washington,
D.C., and later minister of foreign
affairs
• A reporter at 16, a news editor by 20,
and a publisher at 32
• The only Asian to win America’s coveted
Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for a
series of articles predicting the
outbreak of WWII
• Wrote and published 18 books, a range of
literary works which included his
memoirs
FRANCISCO ARCELLANA (1990)
• September 6, 1916- August 1, 2002
• Writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist
and teacher and one of the most important
progenitors of the modern short story in
English
• Pioneered the development of the short
story as a lyrical prose-poetic form
• “The pride of fiction is that it is able
to render truth, that is able to present
reality.”
His short stories include. . .

• Frankie
• The Man Who Would Be Poe
• Death in a Factory
• Lina
• A Clown Remembers
• Divided by Two
• The Mats
Rolando S. Tinio (1997)
• March 5, 1937- July 7, 1997
• Playwright, thespian, poet,
teacher, critic and translator
• Teatro Pilipino, restaging
sarswela and opening a treasure
house of contemporary Western
drama
Poetry
• Sitsit sa Kuliglig
• Dunung-dunungan
• Kristal na Uniberso
• A Trick of Mirrors
Film Scripts
– Now and Forever
– Gamitin Mo Ako
Sarswelas

– Ang Mestisa
– Ako
– Ang Kiri
– Ana Maria
N.V.M. GONZALES (1997)
• September 8, 1915- November 28, 1999
• Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez
• Fictionist, essayist, poet and teacher,
articulated the Filipino spirit in
rural, urban landscapes
• Won the first Commonwealth Literary
Contest in 1940, received the Republic
Heritage Award in 1960 and the Gawad
CCP Para sa Sining in 1990
Major Works
– The Winds of April
– Seven Hills Away
– Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories
– The Bamboo Dancers
– Look Stranger, on this Island Now
– Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-One Stories
– The Bread of Salt and Other Stories
– Work on the Mountain
– The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994
– A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories
Levi Celerio (1997)
• April 30, 1910-April 2, 2002
• Prolific lyricist and composer
for decades
• Effortlessly translated/wrote
anew the lyrics to traditional
melodies: “O Maliwanag Na
Buwan” (Iloko), “Ako Ay May
Singsing” (Pampango),
“Alibangbang” (Visaya)
Levi Celerio (1997)
• Became the youngest member of
Manila Symphony Orchestra
• Made it to the Guinness Book of
World Records as the only person
to make music using a leaf
• Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Film Academy of the
Philippines
• With a treasury of more than
4,000 sons in an idiom
Edith L. Tiempo (1999)
• April 22, 1919-Agust 21, 2011
• Poet, fictionist, teacher and a
literary critic
• Her poems are intricate verbal
transfigurations of significant
experiences as revealed in two of
her much anthologized pieces,
“The Little Marmoset” and
“Bonsai”
F. SIONIL JOSE (2001)
• The value of his oeuvre is
guaranteed through his
consistent espousal of the
aspirations of the Filipino
for national sovereignty
and social justice
• his works have been
published and translated
into various languages
F. SIONIL JOSE (2001)
• A publisher, lecturer on
cultural issues, and the founder
of the Philippine chapter of the
international organization PEN
• CCP Centennial Honors for the
Arts (1999), Outstanding
Fulbrighters Award for
Literature (1988) and the Ramon
Magsaysay Award for Journalism,
Literature, and Creative
Communication Arts (1980)
Virgilio S. Almario (2003)
• Rio Alma
• Poet, literary historian andj critic
• Revived and reinvented traditional
Filipino poetic forms, even as he
championed modernist poetics
• He put face to the Filipino writers
in the country one strong face
determinedly wielding a pen into
untruths, hypocrisy, injustice,
among others
Alejandro Roces (2003)
• July 13, 1924- May 23, 2011
• short story write and essayist, and
considered as the country’s best writer
of comic short stories
• My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken
• He has always focused on the neglected
aspects of Filipino cultural heritage.
• brought to public attention the
aesthetics of the country’s fiestas
• personally led the campaign to change
the Philippine Independence Day from
July 4 to June 12, caused the change
of language from English to Filipino
in the country’s stamps, currency and
passports, and recovered Joe Rizal’s
manuscripts when they were stole from
the National Archives
• a guerilla during the WWII, defied
martial law
BIENVINIDO LUMBRERA
(2006)
• poet, librettist and scholar
• introduced to Tagalog literature what
is known as Bagay poetry, a landmark
aesthetic tendency that has helped to
change the vernacular poetic tradition
• pioneered the creative fusion of fine
arts and popular imagination (as a
librettist for the Tales of Manuvu and
Rama Hari)
LAZARO FRANCISCO (2009)
• February 22, 1898-June 17, 1980
• Master of the Tagalog Novel
• developed the social realist
tradition in Philippine fiction
• his 11 novels embodies his commitment
to nationalism
• He championed the cause of the common
man, specifically oppressed peasants
through exposing the evils of the
tenancy system, the exploitation of
farmers by unscrupulous landlords and
foreign domination.
CIRILO F. BAUTISTA (2014)
• poet, fictionist and essayist with
exceptional achievements and
significant contributions to the
development of the country’s
liberary arts.
• major works include Summer Suns
(1963), Words and Battlefields
(1998), The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus
(2001) and Galaw ng Asoge (2003)
ACTIVITY:
If you were to be an
author under what
pseudonym will you
hide? WHY?

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