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1955. " 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 Philippines ), Santos ...
Rogelio R. Sikat. Rogelio Sicat (June 26, 1940 – 1997), sometimes referred to as "Rogelio Sikat", was a prolific Filipino novelist, playwright and short story writer. Sikat is best known for his classic masterpieces particularly "Impeng Negro", a short story based on a half-black, half-Filipino boy and Moses, Moses, a play in one act that ...
The Summer Solstice. "The Summer Solstice", also known as "Tatarin" or "Tadtarin", [1] is a short story written by Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin. [2] [3] In addition to being regarded as one of Joaquin's most acclaimed literary works, the tale is considered to be controversial. [2] [3] The story narrates a ritual ...
Marcelino M. Navarra (June 2, 1914 – March 28, 1984) was a Filipino Visayan editor, poet, and writer from Cebu, Philippines.He was regarded as the father of modern Cebuano short story for his use of realism and depictions of fictionalized version of his hometown, barrio Tuyom in Carcar, Cebu.
"The God Stealer" is a short story by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José. It is José's most anthologized work of fiction. It is not just a tale about an Ifugao stealing a religious idol, but also about the friendship that developed between a Filipino and an American, a representation of the relationship that developed between the "influenced" and the "influencer".
Rotor was an internationally respected writer of fiction and non-fiction in English. He is widely considered among the best Filipino short story writers of the twentieth century. He was a charter member of the Philippine Book Guild; the guild's initial publication (1937) was Rotor's The Wound and the Scar, despite Rotor's protests that someone ...
Javellana was the author of a best-selling war novel in the United States and Manila, Without Seeing the Dawn, published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston in 1947. His short stories were published in the Manila Times Magazine in the 1950s, among which are Two Tickets to Manila, The Sin of Father Anselmo, Sleeping Tablets, The Fifth Man ...
Kerima Polotan-Tuvera (December 16, 1925 – August 19, 2011) was a Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. [1] Some of her stories were published under the pseudonym "Patricia S. Torres".