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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 .
[1] [2] Philippine literature encompasses literary media written in various local languages as well as in Spanish and English. According to journalist Nena Jimenez, the most common and consistent element of Philippine literature is its short and quick yet highly interpersonal sentences, with themes of family, dogmatic love, and persistence. [3]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Filipino male writers and Category:20th-century Filipino women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers. Tiempo died on August 21, 2011. [2]
Francisco Sionil José (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2022) was a Filipino writer who was one of the most widely read in the English language. [1] [2] A National Artist of the Philippines for Literature, which was bestowed upon him in 2001, José's novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. [3]
Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949), Filipino-American playwright, novelist, mixed-media artist; Rosa Henson (1927–1997), autobiographer; Margie Holmes (active since 1973), non-fiction writer, columnist, popular psychologist; Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo (born 1944), non-fiction writer, fictionist, and professor
Bienvenido Nuqui Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila.His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines.
Literature portal Severino Reyes y Rivera (February 11, 1861 – September 15, 1942) was a Filipino writer and playwright. He used the pen name Lola Basyang .