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Awardees and Laureates

The document provides information on several Filipino and international writers who have received prestigious literary awards: - It discusses several Filipino writers who received the National Artist Award from the Philippines for their contributions to literature, including F. Sionil Jose, Virgilio Almario, Bienvenido Lumbera, Cirilo F. Bautista, Resil Mojares, and Ramon Muzones. - It also briefly describes the Nobel Prize in Literature and some of the recipients, such as John Coetzee, Harold Pinter, Doris Lessing, Mo Yan, Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk, and Peter Handke

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Awardees and Laureates

The document provides information on several Filipino and international writers who have received prestigious literary awards: - It discusses several Filipino writers who received the National Artist Award from the Philippines for their contributions to literature, including F. Sionil Jose, Virgilio Almario, Bienvenido Lumbera, Cirilo F. Bautista, Resil Mojares, and Ramon Muzones. - It also briefly describes the Nobel Prize in Literature and some of the recipients, such as John Coetzee, Harold Pinter, Doris Lessing, Mo Yan, Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk, and Peter Handke

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National Artist awardees

and Nobel Prize laureates


21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
What is the National Award?
It is the highest award
given to Filipinos for
their contribution to
literature and the arts.
F. Sionil Jose (2001)

• F. Sionil Jose’s
writings since the late
60s, when taken
collectively can best
be described as epic
• forefront of
Philippine writing in
English
F. Sionil Jose (2001)

• it is the consistent
espousal of the
aspirations of the
Filipino–for national
sovereignty and
social justice–that
guarantees the value
of his oeuvre
Virgilio Almario (2003)
• Rio Alma
• a poet, literary
historian and critic
• revived and
reinvented
traditional Filipino
poetic forms, even as
he championed
modernist poetics
Bienvenido Lumbera (2006)

• pioneered the
creative fusion of
fine arts and popular
imagination
• the interplaying issues
of nation and class are
key points in all of his
essays
Bienvenido Lumbera (2006)

• historicized Philippine
literature and
reinvented the
society’s colonial
point of view
Cirilo F. Bautista (2014)

• “greatly contributed
to the development
of the country’s
literary arts and
strengthened the
Filipino’s sense of
nationalism”
Resil Mojares (2018)

• a leading figure in
the promotion of
regional literature
and history
• published
in diverse forms
across a wide range of
discipline
Ramon Muzones (2018)
• a Hiligaynon poet,
essayist, short story
writer, critic,
grammarian, editor,
lexicographer, and
novelist
• authored an
unprecedented 61
completed novels
Ramon Muzones (2018)
• evolution covers the
whole history of the
Hiligaynon novel
from its rise in the
1940s to its decline in
the 1970s
• tried his hand at a
variety of types and
proved adept in all
as literary fashions
What is the Nobel Prize?
• Alfred Nobel gave the largest share of his fortune to
the Nobel Prize.
• Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to “the person
who shall have produced in the field of literature the
most outstanding work in an ideal direction”.
John Coetzee (2003)

• Nationality: South African


• Field: Fiction
• won the Nobel for being a
novelist "who in
innumerable guises
portrays the surprising
involvement of the
outsider"
Harold Pinter (2005)
• Nationality: English
• Field: Drama (also a
screenwriter and actor)
• won for being a playwright
"who in his plays uncovers
the precipice under
everyday prattle and forces
entry into oppression's
closed rooms"
Doris Lessing (2007)
• Nationality: British
• Field: Fiction, Drama,
Non-fiction
• won for being a novelist
described as "that epicist of
the female experience, who
with skepticism, fire and
visionary power has
subjected a divided
civilisation to scrutiny"
Mo Yan (2012)

• Nationality: Chinese
• Field: Fiction
• Won for being a fictionist
"who with hallucinatory
realism merges folk tales,
history and the
contemporary"
Alice Munro (2013)

• Nationality: Canadian
• Field: Fiction
• Won for being the "master
of the contemporary short
story"
Bob Dylan (2016)
• Nationality: American
• Field: Music (singer-
composer)
• Won "for having created
new poetic expressions
within the great American
song tradition"
Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)
• Nationality: English (born
in Japan, moved to
England)
• Field: Fiction
• Won for being a fictionist
"who, in novels of great
emotional force, has
uncovered the abyss
beneath our illusory sense
of connection with the
world"
Olga Tokarczuk (2018)

• Nationality: Polish
• Field: Prose
• "narrative imagination that
with encyclopedic passion
represents the crossing of
boundaries as a form of
life"
Peter Handke (2019)
• Nationality: Austrian-born
• Field: Fiction
• won "for an influential
work that with linguistic
ingenuity has explored the
periphery and the
specificity of human
experience"

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