PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ARTIST IN LITERATURE

He won first prize in the Palanca awards for his collection of poems, Mga Duguang Plakard, and for his critical essay on Edgardo M. Reyes' novel, Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag.

Among his most notable works is The Rosales Saga, a five-novel series that paints a picture of 100 years of Philippine history.

He pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form. His published books are Selected Stories (1962), Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977)

His novel Galaw ng Asoge was published by the University of Santo Tomas Press in 2004.

He was well known as a historian of the brief Golden Age of Spain in the Philippines, as a writer of short stories suffused with folk Roman Catholicism, as a playwright, and as a novelist.He wrote his works in English. The novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) examines his country's various heritages.

His books include The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu Province; Aboitiz: Family & Firm in the Philippines; House of Memory: Essays; and Vicente Sotto, The Maverick Senator (Cebuano Studies Center, 1992).

She's a poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic was one of the finest Filipino writers in English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight.

He wrote Isang Dipang Langit (A Stretch of Heaven), which later won a Republic Cultural Heritage Award, and Bayang Malaya (Free Nation), which later won a Balagtas Award. Also written in prison was his masterpiece Luha ng Buwaya (Tears of the Crocodile).

He has written several works about the Filipino diaspora's experiences in America. ... It provides readers of his body of work a full spectrum of the Filipino experience, both as a local in the Philippines and as an immigrant in a new country.