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Jose Garcia Villa, a Filipino poet, critic, short story writer and painter, is an important person to recognize during Filipino American History Month.
Villa was born in 1907 in the Philippine Islands. His early path did not involve poetry. Instead he began a pre-medical course of study at the University of the Philippines, eventually switching to pre-law. After some time, Villa recognized that his true passion was in the creative arts, and his career as a writer began.
In 1929, he published a collection of erotic poems called Man Songs. This collection was met with some controversy. But that same year, he was selected for the Best Story of the Year from the Philippine Free Press magazine for his story called Mir-l-Nisa.
Villa moved from the university in the Philippines to attend the University of New Mexico where he went on to found Clay, a “mimeograph literary magazine.” After finishing his BA there, he moved to Columbia University for his post-graduate education.
Aside from publishing various collections of poetry, Villa also added to the world of poe
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WRITERS from Philippines
The Most Famous
This page contains a list of the greatest Filipino Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 5 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 88th most number of Writers behind Moldova, and Haiti.
Top 5
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Filipino Writers of all time. This list of famous Filipino Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Francisco Balagtas (1788 - 1862)
With an HPI of 59.31, Francisco Balagtas is the most famous Filipino Writer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862), commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltazar, was a Filipino poet and litterateur of the Tagalog language during the Spanish rule of the Philippines. He is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on Fil
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Bienvenido Lumbera
Filipino writer (1932–2021)
Bienvenido Lumbera | |
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Bienvenido Lumbera attending the 2012 Cinemalaya at the Cultural Center of the Philippines | |
| Born | Bienvenido Lumbera (1932-04-11)April 11, 1932 Lipa, Batangas, Philippine Islands |
| Died | September 28, 2021(2021-09-28) (aged 89) Quezon City, Philippines |
| Occupation | Writer, dramatist, professor |
| Alma mater | University of Santo Tomas (BA) Indiana University Bloomington (MA, Ph.D.) |
| Period | 1950–2021 |
| Notable works | Rama, Hari Noli Me Tángere Bayan at Lipunan |
| Notable awards | |
| Spouse | Cynthia Nograles Lumbera |
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Bienvenido L. Lumbera (April 11, 1932 – September 28, 2021) was a Filipino poet, critic and dramatist.[1] Lumbera is known for his nationalist writing and for his leading role in the Filipinization movement in Philippine literature in the 1960s, which resulted in his being one of the many writers and academics jailed during Ferdinand Marcos' Martial Law regime.[2][3] He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award fo