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Pages in category "Philippine short stories" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Pages in category "Filipino short story writers" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Nicomedes "Nick" Marquez Joaquin (Tagalog:; May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer and journalist best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila .
Besides stories of Filipino mythology and history, there was also a boom in tales depicting the simple life of the common Filipino. [19] These stories often took place in the countryside, and portrayed every day Filipino activities like church-going, farming, courting, and cockfighting. The most well-known example was the short story My Brother ...
Paras-Sulit was considered at her productive peak during the period from 1927 to 1937. Her contemporary at the University of the Philippines, Jose Garcia Villa, was an admirer of her works, [3] and included several of her short stories in his annual honor roll of short fiction. [1]
In the story, Santos wrote that “Like time, memory was often a villain, a betrayer.". [8] Set during the 1950s in the U.S. city of Chicago, the short story's central character named Fil is longing for the Philippines and is enthusiastic to meet, greet, and entertain a visiting group of young Filipino female tinikling dancers. [9]
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 ...
Lirio is a short story by Peter Solis Nery, written originally in the Hiligaynon language of the Philippines, and in the magical realism style. [1] It won first prize in the Hiligaynon Short Story category of the 1998 Palanca Awards for Literature [2] The story is also widely used in the teaching of regional literature of the Philippines.