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S.O.S.: Stories of Survival is a Philippine documentary public service television program that is hosted by Martin Andanar and aired on ABC 5 (now TV5) from November 3, 2005 to August 4, 2008. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Philippine folk literature refers to the traditional oral literature of the Filipino people.Thus, the scope of the field covers the ancient folk literature of the Philippines' various ethnic groups, as well as various pieces of folklore that have evolved since the Philippines became a single ethno-political unit.
Zoilo Galang's A Child of Sorrow (1921), the first Filipino novel in English, and Box of Ashes and Other Stories (1925), the first collection of stories in book form; Villa’s Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933); "The Wound and the Scar" (1937) by Arturo Rotor, a collection of stories;
English became a common language for Filipino writers, with the first English novel written by a Filipino being the Child of Sorrow (1921). Short stories gained popularity, with Manuel Arguilla's anthology How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife and other short stories winning prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest.
The Bataan Death March [a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 [1] [2] [3] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando.
Po-on is the beginning of Rosales Saga of F. Sionil José – a series of novels about Rosales, Pangasinan in the Philippines.The Rosales Saga has five parts, all of them individual but interrelated novels, composed namely of the following titles in terms of historical chronology: Po-on, Tree, My Brother, My Executioner, The Pretenders, and Mass.
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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 ...