Blog Acticity no. 1
Biyernes, Nobyembre 18, 2016
1990- Francisco Arcellana
Francisco
Arcellana, writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and
teacher, was born on September 6, 1916. He is considered to be one of the roots
of the modern Filipino short story writers who write in English. For him, a
good fiction should be very close to reality. He kept the experimental
tradition in fiction alive and dared to explore new literary forms to express
the sensibility.
Arcellana studied elementary and high school in Tondo, Manila, and completed a PhB. degree at the University of the Philippines in 1939. He was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Creative Writing from 1956 to 1957 at the University of Iowa. The university offers one of the best creative writing programs in the United States.
He was one of the pioneers of the influential writers' group "The Veronicans," a group of 13 pre-war writers whose aim was to make their writing bear the imprint on the face of the Philippines.
One of his most distinguished achievements was his appointment as the first and founding director of the UP Creative Writing Center in June 1979. He held the directorial position for three and a half years.
Fellows at the UP's annual writing workshops remember him as a stringent critic with a sharp eye for craftsmanship and a steady supply of witty gibes.
Some of his short stories are "The Man Who Would Be Poe," "Frankie," "Lina," "Death in a Factory," "Divided by Two" and "A Clown Remembers." His poetry includes "This Being the Third Poem," "The Other Woman," "To Touch You and I Touched Her," and "This Poem is for Mathilda."
His short stories were adapted to screenplay too. These are "Flowers of May" and "The Mats." Recently, his "Christmas Gift" short story was adapted to screenplay by director Alberto S. Florentino. He became a National Artist for Literature in 1990. Twelve years later, he passed away at the age of 85.
Arcellana studied elementary and high school in Tondo, Manila, and completed a PhB. degree at the University of the Philippines in 1939. He was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Creative Writing from 1956 to 1957 at the University of Iowa. The university offers one of the best creative writing programs in the United States.
He was one of the pioneers of the influential writers' group "The Veronicans," a group of 13 pre-war writers whose aim was to make their writing bear the imprint on the face of the Philippines.
One of his most distinguished achievements was his appointment as the first and founding director of the UP Creative Writing Center in June 1979. He held the directorial position for three and a half years.
Fellows at the UP's annual writing workshops remember him as a stringent critic with a sharp eye for craftsmanship and a steady supply of witty gibes.
Some of his short stories are "The Man Who Would Be Poe," "Frankie," "Lina," "Death in a Factory," "Divided by Two" and "A Clown Remembers." His poetry includes "This Being the Third Poem," "The Other Woman," "To Touch You and I Touched Her," and "This Poem is for Mathilda."
His short stories were adapted to screenplay too. These are "Flowers of May" and "The Mats." Recently, his "Christmas Gift" short story was adapted to screenplay by director Alberto S. Florentino. He became a National Artist for Literature in 1990. Twelve years later, he passed away at the age of 85.
1982- Carlos P. Romulo
Carlos P. Romulo‘s
multifaceted career spanned 50 years of public service as educator, soldier,
university president, journalist and diplomat. It is common knowledge that he
was the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, then
Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later minister of foreign
affairs. Essentially though, Romulo was very much into writing: he was a
reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He
was the only Asian to win America’s coveted Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for a
series of articles predicting the outbreak of World War II. Romulo, in all,
wrote and published 18 books, a range of literary works which included The
United (novel), I Walked with Heroes (autobiography), I
Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother
America, I See the Philippines Rise (war-time memoirs).
1997- Nestor Vincent
Madali Gonzales
Nestor Vicente Madali
Gonzalez, better known as N.V.M. Gonzalez, fictionist, essayist, poet,
and teacher, articulated the Filipino spirit in rural, urban landscapes. Among
the many recognitions, he won the First Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940,
received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1960 and the Gawad CCP Para sa
Sining in 1990. The awards attest to his triumph in appropriating the English
language to express, reflect and shape Philippine culture and Philippine
sensibility. He became U.P.’s International-Writer-In-Residence and a member of
the Board of Advisers of the U.P. Creative Writing Center. In 1987, U.P.
conferred on him the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, its highest
academic recognition.
Major works of N.V.M Gonzalez include the following: The Wind of april, seven hills away, children of the ash-Cvered Loam and other Stories, The Bamboo Dancers Look Stranger, on this Inland Now, Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty -one Stories, The Bread of Salt and Other Stories, Work on the Mountain, The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994, A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories.
Major works of N.V.M Gonzalez include the following: The Wind of april, seven hills away, children of the ash-Cvered Loam and other Stories, The Bamboo Dancers Look Stranger, on this Inland Now, Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty -one Stories, The Bread of Salt and Other Stories, Work on the Mountain, The Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994, A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories.
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