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Gilda Cordero-Fernando

Gilda Cordero-Fernando (June 4, 1930 – August 27, 2020) was a Filipino writer, publisher, visual artist, fashion designer, theater producer, and social activist known for writing and publishing numerous works exploring Filipino culture, for her influence as a mentor and supporter of many of the Philippines cultural workers, and for her prominent "colorful presence in the Philippine literary scene.”

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda_Cordero-Fernando

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Rin Chupeco

Chupeco was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. They are of Chinese, Malay, Thai, and Filipino descent. As a child, Chupeco was fascinated with ghost stories, saying that they were drawn in by absolutely injustice of Japanese tales that tend to favor male aggressors and never end positively for women. They collected the works of Peter Straub, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Christopher Pike. Their favorite story is that of the kuchisake-onna.

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 Jose Jason Llagas Chancoco

Si Jose Jason Llagas Chancoco sarong kagubay na Bikolanong parasurat. Premyado siya kan Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Literaturang Bikolnon sa kategoryang Osipon na Pan-aki kan 2005 asin kan Premio Bibiano Sabino kan 2009 para sa saiyang librong "Pagsasatubuanan: Poetikang Bikolnon" (2008). Sarô siya sa mga panelista sa Juliana Arejola-Fajardo Workshop sa Pagsurat-Bikol kan 2006 asin 2009, siring man sa Saringsing Writers Workshop kan 2011, 2014 asin 2015.

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Gilbert Luis R. Centina III

Gilbert Luis R. Centina III (May 19, 1947 – May 1, 2020) was a Filipino-American award-winning Roman Catholic poet who was the author of nine poetry books, two novels and a book of literary criticism. Respected for his poetry, his works have been anthologized in Philippine high school and college textbooks and published in the Philippines, Spain, Canada and the United States. Besides English, he also wrote in Spanish and in two Philippine languages, Hiligaynon and Tagalog.

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Linda Ty Casper

Born as Belinda Ty in Malabon, Philippines in 1931, she spent the World War II years with her grandmother while her father worked in the Philippine National Railways, and her mother in the Bureau of Public Schools. Her grandmother told her innumerable stories about the Filipino's struggle for independence, that later became the topics of her novels. Linda Ty Casper graduated valedictorian in the University of the Philippines, and later earned her Master's degree in Harvard University for International Law.

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (born 1947) grew up in Cebu City, Philippines, the youngest of four children to Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra and Mariano F. Manguerra. The death of her father when she was nine prompted her to start writing, first in journals, then essays and fiction. She attended St. Theresa's College and Maryknoll College in the Philippines and she did graduate work at UCLA.

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Carlos Bulosan

Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 24, 1913[1] – September 11, 1956) was an English-languageFilipino novelist and poet who immigrated to America on July 1, 1930. He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the United States. His best-known work today is the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart, but he first gained fame for his 1943 essay on The Freedom from Want.

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Lualhati Bautista

Bautista was born in Tondo, Manila, Philippines on December 2, 1945, to Esteban Bautista and Gloria Torres. She graduated from Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in 1958, and from Torres High School in 1962. She was a journalism student at the Lyceum of the Philippines, but dropped out because she had always wanted to be a writer and schoolwork was taking too much time.

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FRANCISCO BALAGTAS

Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862) commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltasar, was a Filipino poet and litterateur of the Tagalog language during the Spanish rule of the Philippines. He is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic Florante at Laura is regarded as his defining work

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Francisco Arcellana

Francisco Arcellana was born on September 6, 1916. He already had ambitions of becoming a writer early in his childhood. His actual writing, however, started when he became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. Arcellana continued writing in various school papers at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

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José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896)