the best Filipino authors :)

Dr. Jose Rizal




Significant Contribution :

• Noli me Tangere
• El filibusterismo

Outstanding Achievement:

• National hero

Writing Influence:

• Inspires the Filipino revolutionist to fight the Spaniards
  
• Informs people about the abusive treatment of the Spaniards towards the Filipinos
  

Driving Principles:

• He opened the eyes of the Filipinos that they are not slaves of the Spaniards, that they have their rights which they are being deprived off.
  

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Carlo J. Caparas





Significant Contributions:

• Brings life to Philippines comic strip
• Introduce our very own selection of superhero with his comic books
  

Outstanding Achievement:

• National artist of the Philippines
• awarded with the Sagisag Balagtas Award on 2008
  

Writing Influence:

• He serve as a roll model for other people to aspire to become a good writer
  

Driving Principles:

• He wants to establish or to help in building up our writing industry with his creations
  

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Lualhati Bautista





Significant Contribution:

• Gapô
• Bata, Bata...Pa'no Ka Ginawa?
• Dekada '70

Outstanding Achievements:

• receiver of the Philippines' Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature and the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa
• honored by the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings
• recipient of the Diwata Award for best writer

Writing Influence:

• Gives Filipinos an overview of what are the realities or things happening around them

Driving Principle:

• Opens the eyes of the Filipinos to struggle in real life

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lualhati_Bautista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_J._Caparas
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images

literature

"the art of written works"
"The body of written works of a language, period, or culture."
"The art or occupation of a literary writer."

This are just some of the definitions of literature that I was able to find, but for me the best of them is the one given by Rebecca West.
According to her literature is an,

Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: "Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity".

This statement of Rebecca West appeals to me the most because I believe that literature is not just a simple written work or document. Literature for me is something unique,it is base from the authors experiences or perhaps of his creative mind and artistic skill.



Literature for me is :



A vast sky filled with stars.
A sky with no boundaries, and stars being unique in their own way.
Same with literature that we can never objectively define,because for me the meaning of literature depends on how a man will perceive it.






source:
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature
http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/52A1F834-FD5E-0493-FBBDE8D6A42F2DDE_1.jpg