UMPIL
Writers' Union of the Philippines (, abbreviated as UMPIL) is the largest organization of Filipino writers in the Philippines. Established in 1974, the organization was first known by the English version of its name, the Writers' Union of the Philippines. It has the primary goal of promoting Philippine literature, uniting writers in the Philippines, and providing seminars, workshops, and symposia in order to achieve the first two goals. Its National Congress meeting is held annually on the last Saturday of August. The organization officially used the Filipino-language translation of its name, ''Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas'' (UMPIL), in 1987. Historical overview The first meeting of UMPIL organizers was held at the Social Security System Building in Quezon City in 1974. Its constitution and by-laws were formally ratified on 29 August 1981. In 1987, UMPIL expanded its representation by including into the Board of Directors representatives from recognized writers’ organiz ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adrian Cristobal
Adrian Empremiado Cristobal Sr. (February 20, 1932 – December 22, 2007) was a Filipino writer who frequently touched on political and historical themes. Perhaps best known to the public for his "Breakfast Table" newspaper column, he was also a Palanca Award-winning playwright, fictionist and essayist. He likewise held several positions in government during the administration of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Upon his death from lung cancer on December 22, 2007, a Resolution was proposed in the Philippine SenateAuthored by Senator Mar Roxas. citing Cristobal as ''"a prolific journalist, a political satirist, a historical writer and lecturer, a well-respected columnist, a brilliant fictionist and essayist, a creative playwright, a literary genius and a hardworking publisher."'' Biography Cristobal studied at the University of the East, though he would drop out of college. By age 15, he had won literary prizes for his fiction, and by 17, his byline was appearing in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Filipino Writers
This list of Filipino writers is organized by the first letter in the surname. * Francisco Arcellana * Francisco Balagtas * Lualhati Bautista * Louis Bulaong * Carlos Bulosan * Cecilia Manguerra Brainard * Ian Casocot * Linda Ty Casper * Gilbert Luis R. Centina III * Jose Jason Chancoco * Rin Chupeco * Gilda Cordero-Fernando * Luis G. Dato * Edmundo Farolán * Zoilo Galang * J. Neil Garcia * Guillermo Gómez Rivera * N. V. M. Gonzalez * Jessica Hagedorn * Nick Joaquin * F. Sionil José * Teresita Manaloto-Magnaye * Resil Mojares * Virginia R. Moreno * Marcelino Navarra * Peter Solis Nery * José Rizal * Alejandro R. Roces * Michelle Cruz Skinner * Miguel Syjuco * Lysley Tenorio * Edith L. Tiempo * Edilberto K. Tiempo * Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas See also * List of Filipino women writers {{DEFAULTSORT:Filipino writers * Writers A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippine Literature
Philippine literature is literature associated with the Philippines from prehistory, through its colonial legacies, and on to the present. Characteristics According to journalist Nena Jimenez, the most common and consistent element of Philippine literature is its short and quick yet highly interpersonal sentences, with themes of family, dogmatic love, and persistence. September 5, 2020 The use of commas, conjunctions, and a variation of English known as Filipino-English or Taglish are also most present in Philippine literature. Many of these elements used by Filipino writers had an impact in the history of literature as a whole. History Precolonial period According to Filipino historian Teodoro Agoncillo, the ethnicity that had the richest history in terms of story-telling were the Ilocano people, whose nomadic lifestyle in the highlands bred stories of adventures far moreso than other Filipinos living in the lowlands. Ilocano used an improvised, versified, and at times im ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippine Languages
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language (disputed)—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages. Although the Philippines is near the center of Austronesian expansion from Taiwan, there is relatively little linguistic diversity among the approximately 150 Philippine languages, suggesting that earlier diversity has been erased by the spread of the ancestor of the modern Philippine languages. Classification History and criticism One of the first explicit classifications of a "Philippine" grouping based on genetic affiliation was in 1906 by Frank Blake, who placed them as a subdivision of the "Malay branch" within Malayo-Polynesian (MP), which at that time was considered as a family. Blake however encompasses every language ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Virgilio S
Virgilio, the Italian and Spanish form of Virgil may refer to: * Virgilio, Lombardy, a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Borgo Virgilio in the Italian province of Mantua * Virgilio.it, a website People with the given name * Virgilio Barco Vargas (1921–1997), Colombian politician and civil engineer, 27th president of Colombia *Pablo Virgilio David (born 1959), Filipino cardinal, current Bishop of Kalookan * Virgilio Fiorenzi (1560–1644), Italian Roman Catholic bishop *Virgilio Fossati Virgilio Fossati (; 3 January 1891 – 29 June 1916) was an Italian footballer and manager. A midfielder, he played for and coached Italian club Inter Milan, also representing the Italy national team; he captained both teams throughout his ca ... (1889–1918), Italian footballer * Virgilio Garcillano (1937–2025), Filipino politician * Virgilio "Jhong" Hilario (born 1976), Filipino actor, dancer, and politician * Virgílio Mendes (1926–2009), Portuguese footballer * Virgilio Noè (1922� ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alfredo Navarro Salanga
Alfredo "Freddie" Navarro Salanga (1948–1988) was a Filipino literary critic, columnist, journalist, novelist, poet, fictionist, editor, and multi-awarded writer.Flores, Wilson Lee(...) "''the late columnist and multi-awarded writer Alfredo Navarro Salanga'' (...) Flores quoting Salanga from the article "Where to Invest Your Excess Funds", Bull Market, Bull Sheet, newsflash.org, February 8, 2009 He was a member of the Manila Critics Circle.Alfredo Navarro Salanga (died 1988) The Manila Critics Circle, bestphilippinebooks.blogspot.com, January 4, 2009 He was the author of 1984 '' [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Provinces Of The Philippines
In the Philippines, provinces ( or ) are one of its primary political and administrative divisions of the Philippines, administrative divisions. There are 82 provinces at present, which are further subdivided into Cities of the Philippines, component cities and Municipalities of the Philippines, municipalities. The local government units in the Metro Manila, National Capital Region, as well as Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities, independent cities, are independent of any provincial government. Each province is governed by an elected legislature called the Sangguniang Panlalawigan and an elected governor. The provinces are grouped into Regions of the Philippines, eighteen regions based on geographical, cultural, and ethnological characteristics. Thirteen of these regions are numerically designated from north to south, while the National Capital Region, the Cordillera Administrative Region, the Southwestern Tagalog Region (Mimaropa), the Negros Island Region, and the Ba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Balagtas
Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862), commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltazar, 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. Balagtas adopted the legal surname Baltazar in fulfillment of the edict issued by Governor-General Narciso Claveria y Zaldua in 1849 that mandated the native population to adopt standard surnames. The name is commonly misspelled as Baltazar and sometimes misinterpreted as his pen name. Early life Francisco Balagtas was born in Barrio Panginay, Bigaa, Bulacan, as the youngest of the four children of Juan Balagtas, a blacksmith, and Juana de la Cruz. He studied in a parochial school in Bigaa and later in Manila. He later worked as a houseboy in Pondi, Man ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paz Marquez Benitez
Pas or PAZ may refer to: Places * Paz, Croatia, a village and castle ruin in Istria, Croatia * Pads, Iran or Faz, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Organisations * Pavlovo Bus Factory or ''Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod'', a Russian bus company * Paz Oil Company, an Israeli fuel company * El Tajín National Airport's IATA code People with the surname Paz is a surname with Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew origins. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word “paz” translates to “peace”, while in Hebrew (פָּז) it roughly translates to “gold” or “fine gold”. * José María Paz (1791–1854), Argentine soldier * José C. Paz (1842–1912), Argentine politician * Luis Paz (1854–1920), Bolivian jurist * Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907–2001), Bolivian politician * Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner * Joana da Paz (1925–2023), Brazilian activist * María Inmaculada Paz-Andrade (1928–2022), Spanish physicist * Pilar Paz Pasamar (19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pedro Bucaneg
Pedro Bucaneg (March 1592 – c. 1630) was a Filipino people, Filipino poet. He is considered the "''Father of Ilocano literature''." Blind since birth, he is the believed to have authored of parts of the Ilocano language, Ilocano Epic poetry, epic ''Biag ni Lam-ang'' (''Life of Lam-ang''). A street inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) complex in Pasay, Philippines is named in his honor. His surname is lent to the ''Bucanegan,'' the Ilocano equivalent of the ''Balagtasan.'' Biography Bukaneg was a foundling, who shortly after his birth was already floating in a basket between Bantay and Vigan in the Banaoang River was found by an old woman. They brought him to the Bantay Augustiner priest who baptized him as Pedro Bucaneg. Bukaneg was sent to the Augustinian convent in Manila to further his theological and cultural studies. He took lessons in Latin and Spanish and also learned the local languages and Ilocano Isneg. Through his knowledge of these languages, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Filipino Writers' Organizations
Filipino may refer to: * Something from or related to the Philippines ** Filipino language, a de facto standardized variety of Tagalog, the national language, and one of the two official languages of the Philippines ** Filipinos, people who are natives, citizens and/or nationals of the Philippines, natural-born or naturalized * Filipinos (snack food), a brand cookies manufactured in Europe See also * Filippino (given name) * * * Filipinas (other) Filipinas may refer to: * Women in the Philippines * ''Filipinas, letra para la marcha nacional'', the Spanish poem by José Palma that eventually became the Filipino national anthem. * The original Spanish name, and also used in different P ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1974 Establishments In The Philippines
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a Metapolitefsi, parliamentary republic and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the West Germany national football team, hosts won the championship ti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |