Catherine Ceniza Choy.
Born in 1969, Choy is a professor and chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
She has written two books on Filipino diasporic history: Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (2003) andGlobal Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America(2013).
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Does the Philippines have a literary heritage?
Elena Arambala The Philippines has a rich literary heritage.
The years since the country’s colonization by Spain have seen the flowering of poetry in a variety of languages, as varied and distinct as the archipelago’s hundreds of dialects and ethnicities.
To fully understand the literature of a country, it is important to know its literary periods.
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Eileen R. Tabios.
Born in 1960, our third poet on the list is also a prolific editor, anthologist, critic, publisher, conceptual/visual artist and fiction writer.
With up to 50 titles in her combined bibliography, she has won the PEN Open Book Award, the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, and the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award, among others.
Tabios is a .
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Felisa Batacan.
Felisa Batacan, also known as F.H.
Batacan overseas, is a Filipino journalist and crime fiction writer based in Singapore, whose first novel, Smaller and Smaller Cricles(2002), was considered to be the Philippines’ first crime novel.
Batacan’s novel was published to wide critical acclaim in 2002, even though it had already won the Carlos Palanca Gr.
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Jessica Zafra.
You probably have known her for her column, Twisted (1994-2004), which appeared in the newspaper Today (now the Manila Standard Today) before it turned into a book series.
Jessica Zafra is known for her trademark wit and remarkable insight, which she displays in spades across her two collections of short stories, The Stories So Far and Manananggal .
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Marjorie Evasco.
Born in 1953, Marjorie Evasco is a poet that prides herself as a true Bol-anon who keeps alive “the memory and spirit of the revolt led by Dagohoy,” committing “her vision through her poetry, believing that the worthy warrior and healer is adept at giving voice to the vision so that others may sing it, too.” One of the earliest supporters of women’.
