Filipino Writers in the different period.
•Pre Colonial period
Claro M. Recto was born in Tiaong, Tayabas, on Feb. 8, 1890. He worked for a bachelor of arts at the Ateneo de Manila and finished a master of laws degree at the University of Santo Tomas in 1914. From 1916 to 1919 he served as legal adviser to the Philippine Senate. In 1919 he was elected as representative of the third district of Batangas and served as House minority floor leader. He was reelected in 1922 and 1925.
Fernando María Guerrero Ramírez (May 30, 1873 – June 12, 1929) was a Spanish Filipino, poet, journalist, lawyer, politician, and polyglot who became a significant figure during the Philippines' golden period of Spanish literature, a period ranging from 1890 to the outbreak of World War II in 1940.
•Period of enlightenment
José Rizal (1861-1896) is one of the most revered figures in Philippine history. He was a multifaceted intellectual and a political activist, best known for his political writings that inspired the Philippine revolution and ultimately led to his execution by the Spanish colonizers.
Graciano Lopez Jaena
He was recognized as the "Prince of Filipino Orators" who wrote great and striking articles in the infamous newspaper La Solidaridad in Barcelona, Spain. Founder and first editor of the newspaper La Solidaridad, which became the vehicle of expression for Filipino propaganda in Spain.
•American Regime
Macario G. Adriatico
(10 Marso 1869-14 Abril 1919)
Scholar, journalist, and politician; known as the “Father of Manila’s City Charter”
Lope K. Santos (1879 – 1963) is known as the “Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar.” His most famous works are the Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa (Grammar of the National Language) and the novel Banaag at Sikat (1906), known as the “Bible of working-class Filipinos.”
• Philippine literature in English
Jose Garcia Villa (1973)Aside from publishing various collections of poetry, Villa also added to the world of poetic style, introducing a new rhyme scheme called “reversed consonance.” As Villa explained, “The last sounded consonants of the last syllable, or the last principal consonant of a word, are reversed for the corresponding rhyme.
Carlos P. Romulo
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).
•Period of Activism
Rogelio Mangahas (9 May 1939 – 4 July 2018) was a Filipino artist and poet.
Born in Palasinan, Cabiao, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, he was educated at the University of the East where he studied AB Filipino. Even then, he was already seeking others who shared the same interest in language, by spending most of his time with poet-friends such as Virgilio S. Almario and Teo Antonio at the University of the East. Together they spearheaded the second successful modernist movement in Filipino poetry.
