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Severino Montano. Severino Montano on a 2015 stamp of the Philippines. Severino Montano (January 3, 1915 – December 12, 1980) was a playwright, director, actor and theater organizer with an output of one novel, 150 poems and 50 plays in his 65-year lifetime. Through the foundation of the Arena Theater, Montano institutionalized “legitimate ...
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (June 16, 1932 – November 4, 2010) was a Filipino poet, editor, author, and academician. One of the country's most respected writers, Dimalanta published several books of poetry, criticism, drama, and prose and edited various literary anthologies. [1] In 1999, she received Southeast Asia's highest literary honor ...
Inscription. 2008 (originally proclaimed in 2005) (3rd session) List. Representative. Darangen is a Maranao epic poem from the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao, Philippines. It consists of 17 cycles with 72,000 lines in iambic tetrameter or catalectic trochaic tetrameter. [1] Each cycle pertains to a different self-contained story.
Philippine epic poetry is the body of epic poetry in Philippine literature. Filipino epic poetry is considered to be the highest point of development for Philippine folk literature, encompassing narratives that recount the adventures of tribal heroes. These epics are transmitted through oral tradition using a select group of singers and ...
José García Villa's Many Voices (1939) and Poems of Doveglion (1941); Poems (1940) by Angela Manalang-Gloria; Chorus for America: Six Philippine Poets (1942) by Carlos Bulosan; Zoilo Galang 's A Child of Sorrow (1921), the first Filipino novel in English, and Box of Ashes and Other Stories (1925), the first collection of stories in book form ...
A 2012 Tum Teav cover. Tum Teav (Khmer: ទុំទាវ [tum tiəw]; meaning "Tum and Teav") is a mid-19th century Cambodian romantic tragedy folk tale.It is originally based on a poem and is considered the "Cambodian Romeo and Juliet" and has been a compulsory part of the Cambodian secondary national curriculum since the 1950s.
Characteristics. The styles and themes used in Philippine literature were born from a combination of the country’s history, mythology, culture, and foreign influences, evolving throughout different periods while also adopting common writing philosophies and movements of the time. [1][2] Philippine literature encompasses literary media written ...
University of Michigan (M.F.A.) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (PhD) Genre. Fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and screenwriting. Website. penmanila.ph. Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (born January 15, 1954) is a Filipino writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and screenwriting, including 16 Palanca Awards.