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Since the birth of national consciousness in Philippine writers and intellectuals, the retrieval of folk stories was present in their narratives. At the end of the 19th century and until independence in 1946, at a time when attempts were being made…

Federico García Sanchiz (1886-1964) was a Spanish writer who authored several novels and travel books, including Nao española: Asia, América y Oceanía, a collection of fragmentary travel impressions in the form of articles, which included a…

Katharine Brush (1902-1952) was a fiction writer born in the USA. According to an article published in Time magazine in 1940, Brush was one of the highest paid women writers in the United States by 1930, yet the Philippine Graphic magazine describes…

La Dame aux camélias is a French self-fiction written by Alexandre Dumas (son) and published for the first time in 1848. The main plot is the story of the prostitute, Marguerite Gautier, narrated after her death (presumably of tuberculosis or…

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…

Gregorio C. Coching’s life (1892-1961) was bonded to the periodical press from a very young age. During his childhood, he sold newspapers to help his mother to make a living after his father’s death. Years later, in 1923, he won the first price…

“Dead Stars” (a very popular text in the archipelago, where is part of the school canon) is the first Filipino short story written in English. It was written by Paz Márquez Benítez, a writer and educator who pioneered in several areas. She was…