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Leona Florentino (1849-1884) was an Ilocano poetess who apparently composed works in Spanish and Ilocano. She was the mother of the intellectual Isabelo de los Reyes (1864-1938), who in his work El folklore filipino (1889) included as an appendix…

Jesús Balmori (1887-1948) was a Filipino poet, playwright, and novelist who wrote in Spanish. One of his most celebrated works is the collection of poems called Mi Casa de Nipa, with which he won first prize in the national literary contest in 1938.…

Antonio Luna y Novicio (1866-1899) is well known for having been the Commanding General of the Philippine Army from 1898 until his death in 1899, as portrayed in a famous Filipino film, Heneral Luna (2015). Before being active in the Filipino army,…

Domus Aurea was a literary magazine launched in1908. It featured the country's most prominent writers and often discussed both Filipino and Latin American modernist literature. Directed by Sixto Roses, writers of two generations passed through the…

The serialized publication of European and North American literary works translated into Spanish was very frequent in the Philippine press at the end of the 19th century. Generally, they were often novels written by nineteenth-century authors such as…

Literary awards were an important way of promoting literature in the Philippines during the 20th century. It is said that the Filipino poet Jesús Balmori won the first three prizes in the contest organized to celebrate "Rizal's day" in 1908 and that…