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The Day the Dancers Came. " The Day the Dancers Came " is a 1955 short story [ 1] written by award-winning Filipino American author Bienvenido N. Santos. Set in 1950s Chicago, it is a classic work of the Filipino diaspora. Apart from being a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature awardee [ 2] (the most prestigious literary award in the ...
He worked as a journalist with the United Press International (1963–65), and arts writer at the defunct Philippines Herald in the 70s. As a senior writer of the Philippine literary diaspora in Canada, he worked as writer and editor at the Metroland Publishing Company, publishers of Harlequin books and the country's largest daily The Toronto ...
Her 1952 short story, (the widely anthologized) The Virgin, won two first prizes: of the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards and of the Palanca Awards. [2] In 1957, she edited an anthology for the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with English and Tagalog prize-winning short stories from 1951 to 1952. [5]
Among her awards are the Philippines Free Press Literary Award for 1994, when she won first prize in the short story contest and for her “outstanding contribution to Philippine arts and letters.” She was also the “unanimous choice” by the Creative Writing Center at the University of the Philippines for the 1995-96 National Fellowship in ...
The Philippines Free Press is a weekly English language news magazine which was founded in 1908, which makes it the Philippines' oldest weekly English language periodical currently still in print. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is known for being one of the few publications that dared to criticize the administration of Ferdinand Marcos in the years before the ...
José García Villa[ 1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [ 2][ 3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [ 4] He is known to have introduced the ...
Dean Francis Alfar (born 2 January 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction.His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while his articles and fiction have been published both in his native Philippines and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the Exotic Gothic series.
Ricky Lee. Ricardo Arreola Lee (born March 19, 1948) is a Filipino screenwriter, journalist, novelist, and playwright. He was conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022. [ 1] Starting in 1973, he has written more than 180 film screenplays. Aside from the Order of National Artists, which is the ...