Biography : Jose Garcia Villa

Name : Jose Garcia Villa
aka : Doveglion b. Singalong
Birth date : August 5, 1908
Parents : Simeon Villa (Emilio Aguinaldo's physician) and Guia Garcia

Educational Background
Secondary : University of the Philippines (UP) High School
College : UP College of Medicine, University of Mexico and Columbia University

Work Experience
- taught poetry for a while at the City College of New York, 1964- 1973
- worked in the Philippine Mission to the U.N., 1954- 1963 and became the vice consul in 1965
- teach professionals in his Greenwich Village residence

Achievements/Awards
- a collection of poetry was nominated for the Bollingen prize
- received the American academy of arts and Letter's Poetry Award
- the Shelley Memorial Award
- the Guggenheim, Bollingen, and Rockefeller fellowships for poetry
- received honorable in the Commonwealth Literary Awards, 1940
- first prize, UP Golden Jubilee Literary Contest,1958
- an honorary doctorate of literature, Far Eastern University, 1959
- Rizal Pro Patria Award, 1961
- Republic Cultural Heritage Award for poetry and short story, 1962
- honorary doctorate in literary form the UP, 1973
- On 12 June 1973, Villa was named National Artist in Literature

Contribution
- Philippine fiction critic
- made a selection of the best Philippine short stories in English as published in various
periodicals in the country. Inclusion in the list was deemed an honor and a recognition that one
had “arrived” in Philippine literature
- introduced his poetic innovations: the comma poems and reversed consonance

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Biography : Carlos P. Romulo

Name : Carlos P. Romulo
Birth date : Camiling, Tarlac 14 Jan 1899
Died : 15 Dec 1985
Parents : Gregorio Romulo (formrer governor) and Maria Peña
Spouse : Virginia Llamas, Beth Day

Educational Background
Secondary : Manila High School
College : University of the Philippines
Masters : Columbia University (masters of arts)

Work Experience
- taught English at UP
- held several positions in newspapers like the Philippine Herald and Manila Tribune
- associate editor, the Citizen, 1919
- editor in chief, T-V-T Publications, Manila, 1931
- member, Board of Regents, UP, 1931- 1941
- publisher, D-M-H-M Newspapers, Manila, 1937- 1941
- secretary of Public Information and Public Relations, Pres. Manuel L. Quezon's War cabinet,
Washington DC, 1943- 1944
- resident commissioner of the Philippines to the United States, 1944- 1946
- chief of the Philippine Mission to the United Nations 1945- 1954
- Secretary of Foreign affairs, Pres. Elpidio Quirino's cabinet, 1050- 1952
- Ambassador to the United States, 1952- 1953, 1955- 1962
- secretary of Education and concurrent UP president, 1962 – 1968
- minister of Foreign Affairs
- and member, Batasang Pambansa (representing National Capital Region)

Achievemnts / Awards
- founding member of the Philippine Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- member of Alpha Phi Omega, Phi Kappa Phi, National Press Club (Washington DC) and the
National Research Council of the Philippines
- received honorary degrees from Notre Dame University, Indiana 1935
- received honorary degrees from University of Athens, 1948
- received honorary degrees from Harvard University, 1950
- received honorary degrees from Chungang University,Korea, 1961
- received honorary degrees from Thammasat University, Thailand, 196
- received honorary degrees from University of California, 1965
- Pulitzer prize for journalism, for work in the United Nations for peace, 1947 and 1948
- Golden Heart Presidential Award, 1954
- Hellenic University Award of Philadelphia Award, for his book, Crusade in Asia, 1955
- Republic Cultural Heritage Award, 1965
- Rizal Pro Patria Award, 1971
- World Peace Award from the World federalists association of New York, 1976
- National Artist in 1984

Contribution
- founding member of the Philippine Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Writeups
- Daughters for Sale, 1924
- Rizal, A Chronicle Play, 1926
- Juli, 1927
- Better English, 1924
- College Composition, 1925
- I Saw the fall of the Philippines, 1942
- Mother America, 1943
- My Brother Americans, 1945
- I See the Philippines Rise, 1946
- The United (a novel), 1951
- Crusade in Asia, 1955
- The Meaning of Bandung; The Magsaysay Story, 1956, with Marvin M. Gray
- Friend to Friend, 1958 with Pearl s. Buck
- I walked With Heroes (autobiography), 1961
- Mission to Asia; The Dialogue Begins, 1964
- Contemporary Nationalism and World Order, Identity and Change: Towards a National
Definition, 1965
- Evasions and Response, 1966
- The University and external Aid; Clarifying the Asian Mystique
- In the Mainstream of Diplomacy

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Biography : Antonio Martinez Abad

Name : Antonio Martinez Abad
aka : "el gran novelista de la literatura Filipino hispana despues de Rizal"
Birth date : May 10, 1894 in Barili, Cebu
Field of Work : poet, fictionist, playwright, and essayist
Died : April 10, 1970.

Educatiuonal Background
- Colegio de San Carlos

Experience
- professor at Far Eastern University and the University of the Philippines
- editor of La Revolution, El Precursor, El Espectador, The Cebu Advertiser, and El Debate
- in 1926, he became the president of La Opinion

Achievements/Awards
- His novel La oveja de Nathan is widely discussed in the following article in Spanish, by
Professor Manuel Garcia Castellon, from University of New Orleans
- a master of a master of costumbrismo (local color), in a personal form of anecdote known as
instantánea or ráfaga
- won the Premio Zobel for his El Último Romántico and La Oveja de Nathán (with Flaviano
Zaragoza)
- won Premio Concurso Literario de la Mancomunidad Filipina for novels Dagohoy and El
Campeón
- one of the recipients of the Commonwealth Literary Awards

Contribution
- co-founded the Department of Spanish (now European Languages)

Novels
-El Último Romántico, (1929), La Oveja de Nathán, (1929), Dagohoy (1939), El Campeón
(1939), and La Vida Secreta de Daniel Espeña (1960; one of the last Filipino novels written in
Spanish)

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Biography : Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez

Name: Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez
Birth date : September 8, 1915
Field : Fictionist, poet, essayis
Parents : Vicente Gonzalez (school supervisor) and Pastora Madali (a teacher)
Spouse : Narita Manuel
Died : 1999 due to kidney complications

Educational Background
Elementary : Romblon
Secondary : Mindoro High School
College : National University and Manila Law College
Stanford University, Kenyon School of English, and Columbia University (creative writing)

Work Experience
- delivery boy in his father's slaughterhouse and meat stall in Calapan
- contributor to the graphic
- twice chosen as the Workshop's writer-in-residence in 1978 and 1987
- professor of English and Asian American literature at the University of Washington from
1976 to 1979
- visiting associate professor of English in the University of California in Santa Barbara
- in 1986, artist-in-residence of the Djarassi Foundation in Woodside, California

Achievements/Awards
- won in the students' literary contest sponsored by the Graphic for an essay in Theodore
Roosevelt's visit to Calapan in 1934
- invited by the University of the Philippines (UP), to teach English and the short story from
1951 to 1967
- chairperson of the Second UP Writers Summer Workshop in Los Baños in 1967
- received several Rockefeller grants
- received a special award in the 1940 Commonwealth Literary Contest for The Winds of April
- the Philippine Republic Award of Merit for Literature in English in 1954
- the Republic Cultural Heritage in 1960
- the Jose Rizal Pro Patria Award in 1961
- the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan ward in 1971 from the city government of Manila
- Eight of his short stories were included in Jose Garcia Villa's honor roll in 1926 to 1940
- won third prize and first prize for His short stories, “On the Ferry” 1959 and “Serenade” in
1964
- In 1993, he received the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in literature
- National Artist status in 1997

Novels
- the Winds of April , 1940
- A Season of Grace , 1956
- The Bamboo Dancers , 1959

Short Stories
- Seven Hills Away , 1947
- Children of the Ash Covered Loam Other Stories ,1954
- Look Stranger, On This Island Now , 1963
- Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories , 1979
- Kalutang: A Filipino in the World an autobiographical essay, 1990
- The Father and the Maid , a compilation of six lectures delivered under the sponsorship of the
UP Creative Writing Center, 1990

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Biography : Francisco Sionil Jose

Name : Francisco Sionil Jose
Birth date : December 3, 1924
Parents : Antonio Jose (Aglipayan minister) and Sofia Sionil Spouse : Maria Teresa Jovellanos
Field in Literature : Fictionist

Educational Background
Elementary : Rosales Elementary School
Secondary : Far Eastern University High School
College : University of Santo Tomas (liberal arts)
: Manila College of Pharmacy and Dentistry (pre-medicine)

Work Experience
- editor-in-chief of the university paper The Varsitarian
- staff of Commonwealth , a Catholic magazine
- assistant editor of the United States Information Service (USIS)
- managing editor of the Sunday Times Magazine
- editor of Comment
- managing editor of the Hong Kong-based Asia Magazine
- information officer for the Colombo Plan Bureau in Sri lanka
- publisher and editor of Solidarity , a monthly magazine on current affairs, ideas and the arts
- writer-in-residence at the National University of Singapore
- visiting research scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
- professorial lecturer, De La Salle University,

Achievements/Awards
- works have been translated into several languages: Russian, Latvian, Ukranian, Dutch,
Indonesian, and Ilocano
- won three first-prize awards in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for
the short stories, “The God Stealer,” 1959; “Waywaya,” 1979; and “Arbol de Fuego”
(Firetree), 1980
- Palanca grand prize for his novel Mass , 1981
- second prize for his essay “A Scenario for Philippine Resistance,” 1979
- won the grand prize in the CCP Literary contests for the novel Tree , 1979
- three first-prize awards from the National Press Club, 1957, 1961 and 1962
- Fernando Ma. Guerrero Memorial Foundation Award for Literature from UST
- the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Tree
- the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from the city government of Manila
- the Tawid Award for Cultural Nationalism from the Ilocano Heritage Foundation
- the Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism,literature, and creative communication arts
- received the Smilth-Mundt Leader Grant, 1955
- two Asian Foundation grants, 1955 and 1960
- the Asian and Pacific Council fellowship, 1971
- the Outstanding Alumnus Award from UST, 1974
- national Artist for Literature in 2001

Contribution
- gives pride to the country for His writings have also appeared in literary journals and
anthologies all over Asia and in American and German publications
- He founded the Philippine chapter of the PE international organization
- set up the Solidaridad Bookshop cum publishing firm and a shortlived art gallery in
Ermita,Manila

Novels
- The Chief Mourner , 1953,The Pretenders in 1962, My Brother, My Executioner , 1979; Mass , 1982; Po-on , 1984;Ermita , 1988; and Viajero (Traveller), 1993

Short Story Collection
- The God Stealer and Other Stories , 1968; Selected Works , 1977; Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short Stories , 1980; and Platinum: Ten Filipino Stories and Olvidon and Other Stories , 1988

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