Filipino Authors

Genoveva Edroza-Matute (January 3, 1915 – March 21, 2009) was the first Filipino author to receive the Palanca Award for Short Story in Filipino in her work, "Kuwento ni Mabuti". She was awarded four Palanca Awards for her short stories.

She worked for the academe for almost five decades. She served as a head of the Department of Filipino and also a Dean of Instruction at the Philippine Normal College.

Matute was married to Epifanio Gar. Matute, who created the popular Filipino radio program Kuwentong Kutsero in the 1950s. She was likewise active in writing radio plays and productions in the 1950s.

Lualhati Torres Bautista (December 2, 1945) is one of the highly acclaimed female Filipino novelist in the history of contemporary Philippine Literature. She is also film and television screen writer. Her first screenplay was Sakada (Seasonal Sugarcane Workers), a story written in 1975 that exposed the plight of Filipino peasants. Among her awards were the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature and the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa in 1987.

Her famous literary works include Dekada '70, Gapo, and Bata, Bata, Pa;no Ka Ginawa? A full translation of Bautista's best works could break the sound barrier of Filipino writing in international publishing.

Amado Vera Hernandez, commonly known as Amado V. Hernandez (September 13, 1903–March 24, 1970) was one of the best socio-political writers in Philippine history. He was known to be for his criticism of social injustice in the country. Most of his novels were based on his experiences as a guerilla, as a labor leader and as a political detainee.

Some of his notable works include Mga Ibong Mandaragit and Luha ng Buwaya.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amado_V._Hernandez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoveva_Matute

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lualhati_Bautista

Literature

Literature is the study or art of written works. It originates from the Latin word literra which means letters. The types of literature varies from one culture to another. In the Western culture, fiction and nonfiction are the most basic types of literature.

Kaleidoscope
I can compare Literature to a kaleidoscope for two reasons. First, kaleidoscope can give you different images in every twist and turn you make, just like literature. Literary works can give us various perspectives in what's happening in our everyday lives, may it be real or the unimaginable. And as you go on reading literary works, you can explore more the depth of life thru the authors' imagination.

Second is that just like a kaleidoscope, literary works are full of colors. They gives us written visual images of things, events, and people. They possess the ability to stir different emotions of the person reading it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature