Authors and literature

from Ilocos, Cagayan

Valley, Cordillera
Administrative Region and
Central Luzon.
Prepared by GROUP 1- 12 Environmental
PROVINCE OF ILOCOS
• Ilocos is a province divided into two: ILOCOS SUR AND
ILOCOS NORTE .Inhabitants are called ILOCANOS
• Located in the northwestern coast of Luzon.
• A well-preserved Spanish Colonial city of Vigan.
• Vigan’s mestezo district is characterized by cobblestone
streets and mansions with wrought-iron balconies.
• Major provinces are: Ilocos Norte,Ilocos Sur,San
Fernando and Pangasinan.
Ilocos Norte

• The birthplace of the former President Ferdinand

Marcos
• Its capital is Laoag City.
• Wind mills of Ilocos Norte is the famous and major
source of electrical energy in the province.
Ilocos Sur
• Vigan City is the the capital of Ilocos Sur
• Founded by Juan de Salcedo in 1572
• Ilocos Sur’s economy is agrigarian
Ilocano Authors
Pedro buc(k)aneg
• A Filipino Poet
• The author of the epic BIAG NI LAM-ANG
• He was a foundling found by an old woman after
floating in a basket between Bantay and Vigan
• Blind since birth, but grew up as a talented and smar
• Took lessons in Latin and Spanish .Also learned the local
dialects and Ilocano Isneg.
• Translated prayers to sermon
• Translated DOCTRINA CRISTIANA to Ilocano .Printed in
1593 as one of the first book in the Philippines
MOTHER OF PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
LEONORA FRANCISCO

• April19, 1849-October 4, 1884

• Poet in Spanish and Ilocano
• At 10, she wrote poems in Ilocano
• She married a politician at the age of 14
• Her works was lost but the preserved ones are in the
library of Madrid,Londres at Paris
 HER WORKS:
 Rucronoy(Dedication)
 Naangaaway a Cablaw(Good Greetings)
 Nalpay a Namnama (vanishing hope)
ISABELO DE LOS REYES

• Known as Don Belong

• Prominent politician,writer and labor activist
• Founder of Aglipayan Church ,an independent Christian Protestant Church in
Catholic Tradition
• Won an award at the agenof 23
• Imprisoned in 1879 for revolutionary activities
• Deported in Spain and jailed until 1898
• Therefore, he got influenced by writing of European socialists and Marxists
• Returned to Philippines in 1901 and founded the first labor union
• Had a 27 children in his 3 successive wives
Works

• Mariquit the tramp

• Sing sing ni Diego
• Biblia Filipina
• Oficio Divino
• Plagerias
CARLOS BOLUSAN

• Born to Ilocano Parents

• Most of his youth was spent in the country side as farmers
• His hometown, became a starting point of his famoussemi-
autobiographical novel, America is in the Heart
• Works;
• America is in the Heart
• The Laughter of my father
• The cry and the dedication
• My Father’s Tragedy
Literature of Cordillera
Administrative Region
Authors from Cagayan
Valley
FERNANDO MARAMAG

• An excellent poet and journalist in English

• Born in Ilagan Isabela
• His editorial writings ‘ exerted great influence on the
various phases of the Filipino way of life, government
,economics and education
• His famous work is The Rural Maid, Emilia
Authors of Central Luzon
CAROLINA ARCEO

• An assistant professor of the English and Filipino at

Tarlac State Univeristy.
• A former coordinator of the office of Public Affairs
and a translator of Panrelihiyong Sentro ng Wikang
Filipino in Region 3
• Her famous work entitled FRUSTRATED WISH
FATHER OF PAMPANGUENO LITERATURE

• Juan Crisostomo Sotto

• Exquisite in Crisostan(balagtasan)
• Wrote moro-moro and zarzuela
• WORKS:
• Pula’tPuti
• Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare
• SIGALOT- best and the written jail
• Wrote an English-SpanishPampango Dictionary with Modesto
Joaquin
ANGELA MARIE MANALANG

• Born in Guagua,Pampanga
• Was among the first generation of female student in UP
• Was the author of REVOLT FROM HYMEN, a poem
protesting against marital rape and caused her denial by
an all-male jury from winning Ph’s Commonwealth
Literary awards in 1940
• POEMS,a poem collection published in 1940 and was
revised in 1950