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The National Library of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang Aklatan ng Pilipinas or Aklatang Pambansa ng Pilipinas, abbreviated NLP, Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional de Filipinas) is the Philippines' official repository of information on cultural heritage and other literary resources.
About 1.2 million volumes of reference and reading materials are available at the National Library, in which the Filipiniana and Asia Division alone own more than 100,000 Filipiniana books. The Diliman portion of the library of the University of the Philippines is composed of 1,132,483 volumes. [1]
This list of Filipino writers is organized by the first letter in the surname. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
National Library of the Philippines, Ermita, Manila: Original manuscript of the last poem of Jose Rizal- Filipino polymath and Nationalist housed at the National Library of the Philippines: 2024 [31] Baptism of Christ By Juan Senson of the Saint Clement Parish Collection in Angono, Rizal Angono, Rizal: 19th- to early-20th-century
Under President Diosdado Macapagal, Carlos Quirino became director of the National Library. He also became the first director of the Ayala Museum in 1970. [2] [4] In 1997, he was recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines for Historical Literature. [1] [5] Quirino's grave at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. He died on May 20, 1999, at the ...
A "♦" indicates a national library of a province or state, or constituent country or dependent state [neutrality is disputed]. It is listed under the sovereign state which governs that entity. Sovereign states are listed even when they have no national library or when the existence and name of a national library could not yet be ascertained.
Writers from any of the 16 cities (plus the municipality of Pateros) which make up Metro Manila should fall under Category:Writers from Metro Manila This category is for articles about writers from Manila , a city in the National Capital Region of the Asian country of the Philippines .
The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3099-8. Hicks, Nigel (2005). This is the Philippines. New Holland Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84537-246-0. Rice, Mark (2014). Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines. University of Michigan Press.