Friday, June 26, 2009

NICK JOAQUIN

Joaquín was born in Paco Manila. He dropped out of high school and did odd jobs on Manila's waterfront and elsewhere. He taught himself by reading widely at the National Library of the Philippines and the library of his father, Leocadio Joaquín, who had been a lawyer and a colonel in the Philippine Revolution. This developed further his interest in writing. His mother was named Salome Marquez Joaquin. Joaquín was first published in the literary section of the Pre-World War II Tribune under writer and editor Serafín Lanot.
And some of his awards are:
  • José García Villa's Honor Roll (1940)
  • Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest (1949)
  • Ten Most Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM), Awardee for Literature (1955)
  • Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards (1957–1958; 1965; 1976)
  • Harper Publishing Company (New York, U.S.A.) writing fellowship
  • Stonehill Award for the Novel (1960)
  • Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1961)
  • Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from the City of Manila (1964)
  • National Artist Award (1976).
  • S.E.A. Write Award (1980)
  • Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature (1996)
  • Tanglaw ng Lahi Award from the Ateneo de Manila University (1997)
  • Several ESSO Journalism awards, including the highly-covetedJournalist of the Year Award.


Carlos Bulosan
(1913-1957)

Carlos Bulosan was born in the Philippines in the rural farming village of Mangusmana, near the town of Binalonan (Pangasinan province, Luzon island). He was the son of a farmer and spent most of his upbringing in the countryside with his family. Like many families in the Philippines, Carlos’s family struggled to survive during times of economic hardship. Many families were impoverished and many more would suffer because of the conditions in the Philippines created by US colonization. Rural farming families like Carlos’ family experienced severe economic disparity due to the growing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the economic and political elite. Determined to help support his family and further his education, Carlos decided to come to America with the dream to fulfill these goals. And based on my own words Carlos Bulosan inform us on how Americans treat us which is:( America is not a land of one race or one class of men. We are all Americans that have toiled and suffered and known oppression and defeat, from the first Indian that offered peace in Manhattan to the last Filipino pea pickers. America is not bound by geographical latitudes. America is not merely a land or an institution. America is in the hearts of men that died for freedom; it is also in the eyes of men that are building a new world. America is a prophecy of a new society of men: of a system that knows no sorrow or strife or suffering. America is a warning to those who would try to falsify the ideas of free men.). ---carlos bulosan



Monday, June 22, 2009

For me. . . Lit is like an eye




















Literature is like an eye
Every people in this world have different perceptions in life
Each people see diiferent thing on their own
Just like an eye Literarure represent as reality
It show both negative and positive things