Asian writers

Asian writers
Nick Joaquin
Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín (May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquin was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature.
He is considered one of the most important Filipino writers in English, and the third most important overall, after José Rizaland Claro M. Recto.
Joaquín was born in Paco, Manila, one of ten children of Leocadio Joaquín, a colonel under General Emilio Aguinaldo in the 1896 Revolution, and Salome Márquez, a teacher of English and Spanish. After being read poems and stories by his mother, the boy Joaquín read widely in his father's library and at the National Library of the Philippines. By then, his father had become a successful lawyer after the revolution. From reading, Joaquín became interested in writing.
At age 17, Joaquín had his first piece published, in the literary section of the pre-World War II Tribune, where he worked as a proofreader. It was accepted by the writer and editor Serafín Lanot. After Joaquín won a nationwide essay competition to honor La Naval de Manila, sponsored by the Dominican Order, the University of Santo Tomas awarded him an honorary Associate in Arts (A.A.). They also awarded him a scholarship to St. Albert's Convent, the Dominican monastery in Hong Kong.

Famous writings
May Day Eve (1947)
Prose and Poems (1952)
The Woman Who had Two Navels (1961)
La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964)
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966)
Tropical Gothic (1972)
A Question of Heroes (1977)
Jeseph Estrada and Other Sketches (1977)
Nora Aunor & Other Profiles (1977)
Ronnie Poe & Other Silhouettes (1977)
Reportage on Lovers (1977)
Reportage on Crime (1977)
Amalia Fuentes & Other Etchings (1977)
Gloria Diaz & Other Delineations (1977)
Doveglion & Other Cameos (1977)
Language of the Streets and Other Essays (1977)
Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1977)

Estrella D. Alfon

Estrella D. Alfon (July 18, 1917 – December 28, 1983) was a well-known prolific Filipina author who wrote in English. Because of continued poor health, she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing Center. She died in the year 1983 at the age of 66.
Estrella Alfon was born in Cebu City in 1917. Unlike other writers of her time, she did not come from the intelligentsia. Her parents were shopkeepers in Cebu. She attended college, and studied medicine. When she was mistakenly diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, she resigned from her pre-medical education, and left with anAssociate of Arts degree.
Alfon has several children: Alan Rivera, Esmeralda "Mimi" Rivera, Brian Alfon, Estrella "Twinkie" Alfon, and Rita "Daday" Alfon (deceased). She has 10 grandchildren.
Her youngest daughter, was a stewardess for Saudi Arabian Airlines, and was part of the Flight 163 crew on August 19, 1980, when an in-flight fire forced the aircraft to land in Riyadh. A delayed evacuation resulted in the death of everyone aboard the flight. Alfon died on December 28, 1983, following a heart attack suffered on-stage during Awards night of the Manila Film Festival.
Famous writings
Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place, 1960)
With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962)
Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963)
The Knitting Straw, One-act Play, (Third place, 1968)
The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)

Francisco Balagtas
Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862), also known as Francisco Baltazar, was a prominent Filipinopoet, and is widely considered as one of the greatest Filipino literary laureate for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic,Florante at Laura, is regarded as his defining work.
The name "Baltazar", sometimes misconstrued as a pen name, was a legal surname Balagtas adopted after the 1849 edict of Governor-General Narciso Claveria y Zaldua, which mandated that the native population adopt standard Spanish surnames instead of native ones.
Francisco Balagtas was born on April 2, 1788, in Barrio Panginay, Bigaa, Bulacan as the youngest of the four children of Juan Balagtas, a blacksmith, and Juana de la Cruz. He studied in a parochial school in Bigaa and later in Manila. During his childhood years. Francisco later had odd jobs in Tondo, Manila to earn for his brother's tuition fee.

Famous writings
Florante at Laura, an awit (metrical narrative poem with dodecasyllabic quatrains [12 syllables per line, 4 lines per stanza]); Balagtas' masterpiece
Orosmán at Zafira – a komedya (a Filipino theater form evolved from the Spanish comedia) in four parts
Don Nuño at Selinda – a komedya in three parts
Auredato at Astrome – a komedya in three parts
Clara Belmore – a komedya in three parts
Abdol at Misereanan – a komedya, staged in Abucay in 1857
Bayaceto at Dorslica – a komedya in three parts, staged at Udyong on September 27, 1857
Alamansor at Rosalinda – a komedya staged at Udyong during the town's feast
La India elegante y el negrito amante – a short play in one part
Nudo gordeano
Rodolfo at Rosemonda
Mahomet at Constanza
Claus (translated into Tagalog from Latin)

Kang Kyeong-ae

Kang Kyŏng-ae (20 April 1906 – 26 April 1944) (Hangul: 강경애, 姜敬愛) was a Korean writer, novelist and poet involved with theFeminist movement. She is also known by her penname Kang Gama.
Kang Kyŏng-ae was born in Songhwa, Hwanghae-do, and had an unhappy childhood. She was the daughter of a servant and lost her father at the age of five. She was then forced to moved to Changyeon where her mother remarried a man with three children. All of these circumstances resulted in substantial unhappiness.
Kang was something of a prodigy and started teaching herself to read the Korean alphabet when she was eight years old using her step-father's copy of the Tale of Ch’unhyang at a time when female literacy was not greatly valued. By age ten, she had been nicknamed the “little acorn storyteller” by neighborhood elders for whom she read traditional Korean tales. She was also praised in school for her essay writing and often read stories for her friends.
Kang enrolled in a Catholic boarding school with the help of her brother-in-law. She was later expelled for orchestrating and participating in a sit-in against the school's strict policies and a particularly cruel dorm mistress. She met a college student who was visiting from Tokyo, moved to Seoul with him, and began an affair. When the affair ended, she moved back to her family home in Hwanghae-do.

Famous writings
The Broken Geomungo (Pageum 1931)
Mothers and Daughters (Eomeoni wa ttal 1931)
Comet (Hyeseong 1931)
The Front Line (Jaeilseon 1932)
Vegetable Garden (Chaejeon 1933)
Football Game (Chukgu jeon 1933)
Existence, Nonexistence (Yumu 有無 1933)
Fathers and Sons (Buja 1934)
The Human Problem (Ingan munje 1934)
Salt (Sogeum 1934)
Drugs/Magic Medicine (Mayak)
Mother and Child (Moja 1935)
Writer's Fee: 200 won (Wongoryo Ibaekwon 1935)
Layoff (Haego 1935)
Underground Village (Jihachon 1936)

Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴?, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).
Born as Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五), the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka, he first studied haikai poetry under Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin School of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse. Scholars have described numerous extraordinary feats of solo haikai composition at one sitting; most famously, over the course of a single day and night in 1677, Saikaku is reported to have composed at least 16,000 haikai stanzas, with some sources placing the number at over 23,500 stanzas.
Later in life he began writing racy accounts of the financial and amorous affairs of the merchant class and the demimonde. These stories catered to the whims of the newly prominent merchant class, whose tastes of entertainment leaned toward the arts and pleasure districts.

Famous writings
The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男 Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko?, 1682)
The Great Mirror of Beauties: Son of an Amorous Man (好色二代男 諸艶大鏡 Kōshoku Nidai Otoko Shoen Okagami ?, 1684)
Five Women Who Loved Love (好色五人女 Kōshoku Gonin Onna?, 1685)
The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女 Kōshoku Ichidai Onna?, 1686) (made into the 1952 movie The Life of Oharu by Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Great Mirror of Male Love (The Encyclopedia of Male Love) (男色大鑑 Nanshoku Okagami?, 1687)

Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, IPA: [ɪˈosʲɪf ˈbrot͡skʲɪj] ( listen); 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian-American poet and essayist.
Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly advised" to emigrate) from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale, Cambridge and Michigan.
Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity".He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad. His father, Aleksandr Brodsky, was a professional photographer in the Soviet Navy and his mother, Maria Volpert Brodsky, was a professional interpreter whose work often helped to support the family. They lived in communal apartments, in poverty, marginalized by their Jewish status. In early childhood Brodsky survived the Siege of Leningradwhere he and his parents nearly died of starvation; an aunt of his did die of hunger. He later suffered from various health problems caused by the siege. Brodsky commented that many of his teachers were anti-Semitic and that he felt like a dissident from an early age. He noted "I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice ... but because of his omnipresent images."

Famous writings
1967: Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems, selected, translated, and introduced by Nicholas William Bethell, London: Longman
1968: Velka elegie, Paris: Edice Svedectvi
1972: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis
1973: Selected Poems, translated from the Russian by George L. Kline. New York: Harper & Row
1977: A Part of Speech
1977: Poems and Translations, Keele: University of Keele
1980: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1981: Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980, translation by Alan Myers.–London: Anvil Press
1988: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965–1985, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1995: On Grief and Reason: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1996: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1999: Discovery, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2000: Collected Poems in English, 1972–1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2001: Nativity Poems, translated by Melissa Green–New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Anita Desai
Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Academy Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Academy, India's National Academy of Letters;she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea.
Anita Mazumdar was born in Mussoorie, India, to a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. N. Mazumdar. She grew up speaking German at home andBengali, Urdu, Hindi and English outside the house. However, she did not visit Germany until later in life as an adult. She first learned to read and write in English at school and as a result English became her "literary language". She began to write in English at the age of seven and published her first story at the age of nine.
She was a student at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the Miranda House of the University of Delhi. The following year she married Ashvin Desai, the director of a computer software company and author of the book Between Eternities: Ideas on Life and The Cosmos. They have four children, including Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai. Her children were taken to Thul (near Alibagh) for weekends, where Desai set her novel The Village by the Sea. For that work she won the 1983 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.

Famous writings
The Artist of Disappearance (2011)
The Zigzag Way (2004)
Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000)
Fasting, Feasting (1999)
Journey to Ithaca (1995)
Baumgartner's Bombay (1988)
In Custody (1984)
The Village by the Sea (1982)
Clear Light of Day (1980)
Games at Twilight (1978)
Fire on the Mountain (1977)
Cat on a Houseboat (1976)
Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975)
The Peacock Garden (1974)
Bye-bye Blackbird (1971)
Voices in the City (1965)
Cry, The Peacock (1963)

Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958 in Dehra Dun) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests includeenvironmental, social, political and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times.
A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for The Caravan and Outlook magazines. For the year 2011–2012, he held a visiting position at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. His newest book is Gandhi Before India (2013), the first part of a planned two-volume biography of M. K. Gandhi. His large body of work, covering a wide range of fields and yielding a number of rational insights has made him a significant figure in Indian historical studies, and Guha is valued as one of the major historians of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries.

Guha was born on 29 April 1958 at Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, where his father Ram Das Guha was a director at the Forest Research Institute. He is a Tamilian Brahmin who was brought up in Uttarakhand. Ramachandra Guha studied at The Doon School where he was an editor of The Doon School Weekly. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a BA in economics in 1977 and completed a Master's from the Delhi School of Economics. He then enrolled at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he did a fellowship programme (equivalent to a PhD) on the social history of forestry in Uttarakhand, focusing on the Chipko movement. It was later published as The Unquiet Woods.

Famous writings
The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya (University of California Press, Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP)) (1989)
This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India (OUP) (with Madhav Gadgil, 1992)
Wickets in the East (OUP) (1992)
Social Ecology (OUP) (Editor, with T.N. Madan, 1994)
Spin and Other Turns (Penguin) (1994)
An Indian Cricket Omnibus (OUP) (Editor, with T.G. Vaidyanathan, 1994)
Ecology and Equity (with Madhav Gadgil, 1995) (Penguin)
Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (with Joan Martinez-Alier, 1997)
Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, his tribals and India (University of Chicago Press; OUP) (1999)
An Anthropologist Among the Marxists, and other essays (Permanent Black) (2000)
Environmentalism: A global history (OUP) (2000)
The Picador Book of Cricket (Picador) (Editor, 2001)
A Corner of a Foreign Field: An Indian history of a British sport (Picador) (2001)
An Indian cricket century (Editor, works of Sujit Mukherjee, 2002)
The Last Liberal and Other Essays (Permanent Black, 2004)
The States of Indian Cricket (Permanent Black) (2005)

Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent.
The Indian Council for Child Education recognised his pioneering role in the growth of children's literature in India, and awarded him theSahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour, inMussoorie.
Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 in a military hospital , to Edith Clerke and Aubrey Bond. His siblings were Ellen and William. At present, his sister Ellen lives in Jallandhar, Punjab and brother William lives in Canada. Ruskin's father was with the Royal Air Force. When Bond was four years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi-Hindu, Mr. Hari, who himself had been married once.
Bond spent his early childhood in Vijayanagar (Gujarat) and Shimla. At the age of ten Ruskin went to live at his grandmother's house in Dehradun after his father's sudden death in 1944 from malaria. Ruskin was raised by his grandmother. He completed his schooling at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1952 after winning several writing competitions in the school like the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize.

Famous writings
Garland of Memories
Ghost Stories from the Raj
Funny Side Up
Rain in the Mountains-Notes from the Himalayas
Our trees still grow in Dehra
Dust on the Mountain
A Season of Ghosts
Tigers Forever
A Town Called Dehra
At school with Ruskin Bond
An Island of Trees
The Night Train at Deoli
A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings
Potpourri
The Adventures of Rusty
The Lost Ruby
Crazy times with Uncle Ken

Aaron Lee
Aaron Lee Soon Yong (born 7 June 1972 in Malaysia) is a Singaporean prize-winning poet who writes in English.
Aaron began writing poetry during his days at Raffles Institution, a secondary school in Singapore where he befriended other students who would also eventually go on to become published Singaporean writers. By 1990, he had, along with other ex-school mates, Jonathan Kuan Wei Han, Tong Jo Tze, Alvin Pang and Jeffrey Lim, interested a Singapore publisher, VJ Times, in the publication of an anthology of poems contributed by the five writers. This collection, In Search of Words, was published in 1991.
Lee's first collection of poems, A Visitation of Sunlight, was named one of the best books of 1997 by The Straits Times. The collection was well received and played a part in a late 1990s resurgence of interest in Singapore poetry centred on a new generation of Singapore poets.
In 1999, the title poem of his book was selected for the National Arts Council’s Poems on the Move programme, a national initiative to bring poetry to the masses on public transport.
Lee’s work has been anthologised in such publications as Rhythms: a Millennial Anthology of Poetry (Singapore), the New Straits Times (Malaysia), Anglistik (Germany), and Fifty on 50 (Singapore).
Lee is the co-editor of No Other City: the Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry and Love Gathers All: the Philippines- Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry (for which the editors were given an award by the Singapore International Foundation). He has given talks and readings in Malaysia, Germany, the US, the Philippines and Australia.
In 2007, Lee released his second, long awaited poetry collection, Five Right Angles. The book went on to become a finalist in the Singapore Literature Prize awards of 2008.
He is active in the literary scene in mentoring young poets and conducting school workshops and seminars on creative writing. He is married to an artist and educationist, Namiko Chan. He is a Christian, and his work displays a range of Christian themes and imagery.

Famous writings
A Visitation of Sunlight: Poems 1990-96 (1997, Ethos Books) ISBN 9810095368
Five Right Angles: Poems (2007, Ethos Books) ISBN 9789810583682

Ji-Young Gong
Ji-Young Gong is a South Korean novelist and one of the most popular of the 'new wave' of female writers who shattered the South Korean literary establishment's glass ceiling in the 1980s and 1990s

Ji-Young Gong (the author's preferred name according the Korean Government) was interested in literature from an early age, and while still a teenager, self-published her own stories and poems.
It was during her college years in the 1980s that she came into contact with the student movement and it was from this experience that Gong drew her sense of purpose. In 1985 she received her B.A. in Literature from Yonsei University. Her first novel Rising Dawn was a direct result of her involvement in the student and labor movements of that era. Her earlier works chronicle the 1980s and the students who like the author herself came of age during that decade of violent protest and political upheaval in South Korea.
Gong began to write full-time in 1988. Her works have focused on issues surrounding laborers, the underprivileged and those who suffer discrimination.[5] She has also written extensively about the lives of young educated women attempting to forge lives for themselves both within and without the family.

Famous writings
My Sister, Bong-soon. Mosaic Press, 2005. ISBN 0889628319, OCLC 61700295. Translated by Jung-eun Park.
Our Happy Time, Translated by Sora Kim-Russell
1993 - Go Alone Like a Rhino Horn
1994 - Mackerel
1996 - The Unhurt Soul
1998 - My Sister Bong-soon
1999 - Crying Existence
2000 - Who We Are, Where We Are From, Where We Are Going?
2005 - Films of My Life
2005 - Our Happy Hours
2006 - I Was Alone Like a Raindrop
2009 - People in the Bible for Children
2009 - The Crucible

Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdī
Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdī (Arabic:محمد بن الحسن المهدي) is believed by Twelver Shī‘a Muslims to be the Mahdī, an ultimate savior of humankind and the final Imām of the Twelve Imams who will emerge with Isa (Jesus Christ) in order to fulfill their mission of bringing peace and justice to the world. Twelver Shī‘a believe that al-Mahdī was born in 869 (15 Sha‘bān 255 AH) and assumed Imamate at 5 years of age following the death of his father Hasan al-Askari. In the early years of his Imamate he would only contact his followers through The Four Deputies. After a 72-year period, known as Minor Occultation, a few days before the death of his fourth deputy Abul Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri in 941, he is believed to have sent his followers a letter. In that letter that was transmitted by al-Samarri he declared the beginning of Major Occultation during which Mahdi is not in contact with his followers.
Followers of Sunni Islam and other minority Shias mostly believe that the Mahdi has not yet been born, and therefore his exact identity is only known to Allah. Aside from the Mahdi's precise genealogy, Sunnis accept many of the same hadiths Shias accept about the predictions regarding the Mahdi's emergence, his acts, and his universal Caliphate. Sunnis also have a few more Mahdi hadiths which are not present in Shia collections.
The messianic belief in Mahdi helped Shias to tolerate unbearable situations to the level that without it the Shia religion might not have been able to survive persecutions in the course of history. It also acted as a moderating force among them by postponing political activities until the future coming of the Awaited Mahdi. Famous writings al-Mahdî (the Guided one) al-Muntadhir (the Awaited one) al-Qâ’im (the Rising one)
Sahab az-Zaman (the Master of the Age)
Imâmu-zz-Zaman (the Leader of the Age)
Wali al-'Asr (the Guardian of the Era or alternatively, the Guardian in the Twilight [of man]) al-Hujjah (the Proof [of Allah's justice])

jose Rizal
José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, novelist, poet,ophthalmologist, journalist, and revolutionary. He is widely considered as one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines. He was the author of Noli Me Tángere, El Filibusterismo, and a number of poems and essays. He was executed on December 30, 1896 by a squad of Filipino soldiers of the Spanish Army.
Jose Rizal was born to the wealthy Mercado-Rizal family in Calamba, Laguna of the Philippines. The Mercado-Rizals were considered one of the most prestigious Filipino families during their time. Jose Rizal came from the 13-member family consisting of his parents, Francisco Mercado II and Teodora Alonso Realonda, and nine sisters and one brother. His parents were leaseholders of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm by theDominicans.
From an early age, Jose Rizal Mercado showed a precocious intellect. He learned the alphabet from his mother at 3, and could read and write at age 5. Upon enrolling at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, José dropped the last three names that make up his full name, on the advice of his brother,Paciano Rizal, and the Mercado-Rizal family, thus rendering his name as "José Protasio Rizal". Of this, Rizal writes: "My family never paid much attention [to our second surname Rizal], but now I had to use it, thus giving me the appearance of an illegitimate child!" This was to enable him to travel freely and disassociate him from his brother, who had gained notoriety with his earlier links to Gomburza. From early childhood, José and Paciano were already advancing unheard-of political ideas of freedom and individual rights which infuriated the authorities. Despite the name change, José, as "Rizal" soon distinguished himself in poetry writing contests, impressing his professors with his facility with Castilian and other foreign languages, and later, in writing essays that were critical of the Spanish historical accounts of the pre-colonial Philippine societies. Indeed, by 1891, the year he finished his El filibusterismo, this second surname had become so well known that, as he writes to another friend, "All my family now carry the name Rizal instead of Mercado because the name Rizal means persecution! Good! I too want to join them and be worthy of this family name...". Famous writings
Noli Me Tángere, novel, 1887 (literally Latin for 'touch me not', from John 20:17)
El Filibusterismo, (novel, 1891), sequel to Noli Me Tángere
Mi Último Adiós, poem, 1896 (literally "My Last Farewell" )
Alin Mang Lahi” (“Whate’er the Race”), a Kundiman attributed to Dr. José Rizal
The Friars and the Filipinos (Unfinished)
Toast to Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo (Speech, 1884), given at Restaurante Ingles, Madrid
The Diaries of José Rizal
Rizal's Letters is a compendium of Dr. Jose Rizal's letters to his family members, Blumentritt, Fr. Pablo Pastells and other reformers
"Come se gobiernan las Filipinas" (Governing the Philippine islands)
Filipinas dentro de cien años essay, 1889-90 (The Philippines a Century Hence)
La Indolencia de los Filipinos, essay, 1890 (The indolence of Filipinos)
Makamisa unfinished novel
Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos, essay, 1889, To the Young Women of Malolos
Annotations to Antonio de Moragas, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (essay, 1889, Events in the Philippine Islands)

Lualhati Bautista
Lualhati Torres Bautista (born December 2, 1945) is one of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the history of contemporary Philippine Literature. Her novels include Dekada '70, Bata, Bata, Pa'no Ka Ginawa?, and ‘GAPÔ.
Bautista was born in Tondo, Manila, Philippines on December 2, 1945 to Esteban Bautista and Gloria Torres. She graduated from Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in 1958, and from Torres High School in 1962. She was a journalism student at the Lyceum of the Philippines, but dropped out even before she finished her freshman year.
Despite a lack of formal training, Bautista as the writer became known for her honest realism, courageous exploration of Philippine women's issues, and her compelling female protagonists, who confront difficult situations at home and in the workplace with uncommon grit and strength.

Famous writings
Buwan, Buwan, Hulugan Mo Ako ng Sundang: Dalawang Dekada ng Maiikling Kuwento
Desaparesidos
gapo
Sakada
Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap
Bulaklak sa City Jail
Kadenang Bulaklak
The Maricris Sioson Story
Nena
Bata, Bata...Pa'no Ka Ginawa?: The Screenplay
Dekada '70
Ang Tondo ay May Langit din - Khonde

Alejandro Roces
Alejandro Reyes Roces (13 July 1924 – 23 May 2011) was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of thePhilippines for literature. He served as Secretary of Education from 1961 to 1965, during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.
Noted for his short stories, the Manila-born Roces was married to Irene Yorston Viola (granddaughter of Maximo Viola), with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth Roces-Pedrosa. Anding attended elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University, before moving to the University of Arizona and then Arizona State University for his tertiary education. He graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts and, not long after, attained his M.A. from Far Eastern University back in the Philippines. He has since received honorary doctorates from Tokyo University, Baguio's St. Louis University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and the Ateneo de Manila University.
Roces was a captain in the Marking’s Guerilla during World War II and a columnist in Philippine dailies such as the Manila Chronicleand the Manila Times. He was previously President of the Manila Bulletin and of the CAP College Foundation.
In 2001, Roces was appointed as Chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). Roces also became a member of the Board of Trustees of GSIS (Government Service Insurance System) and maintained a column in thePhilippine Star called Roses and Thorns.

Literary works
During his freshman year in the University of Arizona, Roces won Best Short Story for We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers. Another of his stories, My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken, was listed as Martha Foley’s Best American Stories among the most distinctive for years 1948 and 1951. Roces did not only focus on short stories alone, as he also published books such as Of Cocks and Kites (1959), Fiesta (1980), and Something to Crow About (2005). Of Cocks and Kites earned him the reputation as the country's best writer of humorous stories. It also contained the widely anthologized piece “My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken”. Fiesta, is a book of essays, featuring folk festivals such as Ermita's Bota of a beautiful woman named Luningning. The resolution? A cockfight, of course. Something to Crow About won the Aliw Award for Best Musical and Best Director for a Musical Production. It also had a run off-Broadway at the La Mama Theater in New York.