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José García Villa [1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter.He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [2] [3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [4]
The level of poetry in the Philippines had also risen, with poet Jose Garcia Villa making impacts in poetry history for introducing the style of comma poetry and the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme". [4] The American occupation and colonization of the Philippines led to the rise of "free verse" poetry, prose, and other genres.
He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino short story in English. Arcellana pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form within Filipino literature. His works are now often taught in tertiary-level syllabi in the Philippines. Many of his works were translated into Tagalog, Malaysian, Russian ...
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.
A multi-awarded poet, essayist, literary translator, and editor, he received the S.E.A. Write Award (Southeast Asian Writers Award) from the Royalty of Thailand in 2007 and the Ani ng Dangal (Harvest of Honor) Award from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) of the Republic of the Philippines in 2009. He has won eight major ...
In the Philippines there are only two: Jose Rizal and a disciple he never knew, Emmanuel Lacaba." [7] The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) confers the Gawad Eman Lacaba Award to young poets. Lacaba and his brother Pete were accorded the distinction of being among the top 100 Filipinos in culture. [8]