PEDRO BUKANEG

POET
Pedro Bucaneg was a Filipino poet. Blind since birth, he is the acknowledged author
of the Ilocano epic Biag ni Lam-ang. He is considered the "Father of Ilocano
literature." Wikipedia
Born: March 1592, Bantay
Died: 1630
Pedro Bucaneg- (March 1592 c. 1630) was a Filipino poet. Blind since birth, he is
the acknowledged author of the Ilocano epic Biag ni Lam-ang (Life of Lam-ang). He
is considered the "Father of Ilocano literature." A street inside the Cultural Center of
the Philippines (CCP) complex in Pasay City, Philippines is named in his honor.
His surname is lent to the Bucanegan, the Ilocano equivalent of the Balagtasan.

LEONA FLORENTINO
Leona Florentino was a Filipino poet in the Spanish and Ilocano languages.
She is considered as the "mother of Philippine women's literature" and the
"bridge from oral to literary tradition..
Born: April 19, 1849, Vigan
Died: October 4, 1884, Vigan
Children; Isabelo de los Reyes
Leona Florentino (19 April 1849 - 4 October 1884) was a Filipino poet in
the Spanish and Ilocano languages. She is considered as the "mother of
Philippine women's literature" and the "bridge from oral to literary
tradition".[1]
Born to a wealthy and prominent family in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Florentino
began to write her first verses in Ilocano at a young age. Despite her
potential, she was not allowed to receive a university education because
of her gender. Florentino was instead tutored by her mother, and then a
series of private teachers. An educated Ilocano priest taught her advanced
Spanish and encouraged her to develop her voice in poetry.[1]

Florentino married a politician named Elias de los Reyes at the age of 14.
They had five children together. Their son Isabelo de los Reyes later
became a Filipino writer, activist and senator.

CARLOS BULOSAN
Carlos Bulosan
Born Carlos Sampayan Bulosan
November 24, 1913
Pangasinan, Philippine Islands
Died September 11, 1956 (aged 42)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Cause of death

Bronchopneumonia

Occupation Novelist, essayist, labor union organizer

Carlos Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in the Philippines in Binalonan,
Pangasinan. There is considerable debate around his actual birth date, as

he himself used several dates, but 1911 is generally considered the most
reliable answer, based on his baptismal records, but according to the late
Lorenzo Duyanen Sampayan, his childhood playmate and nephew, Carlos
was born on November 2, 1913. Most of his youth was spent in the
countryside as a farmer.

MANUEL ARGUILLA
Manuel Estabilla Arguilla was an Ilokano writer in English, patriot, and martyr. He is
known for his widely anthologized short story "How My Brother Leon Brought Home
a Wife,"
Born: June 17, 1911, Bauang
Died: 1944, Manila
Education: University of the Philippines
Books: How my brother Leon brought home a wife, and other stories
e is known for his widely anthologized short story "How My Brother Leon Brought
Home a Wife," the main story in the collection "How My Brother Leon Brought Home
a Wife and Other Short Stories" which won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary
Contest in 1940.
His stories "Midsummer" and "Heat" was published in the Tondo, Manila by the
Prairie Schooner.Most of Arguilla's stories depict scenes in Barrio Nagrebcan,
Bauang, La Union where he was born. His bond with his birthplace, forged by his

dealings with the peasant folk of Ilocos, remained strong even after he moved to
Manila where he studied at the University of the Philippines where he finished BS
Education in 1933 and where he became a member and later the president of the
U.P. Writer's Club and editor of the university's Literary Apprentice.

F SIONIL JOSE
Francisco Sionil Jos- is one of the most widely read Filipino writers in the English
language. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class
struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. Wikipedia
Born: December 3, 1924 (age 90), Rosales, Pangasinan
Education: University of Santo Tomas
Awards: Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Novel in English, more
Jos was born in Rosales, Pangasinan, the setting of many of his stories. He spent
his childhood in Barrio Cabugawan, Rosales, where he first began to write. Jos was
of Ilocano descent whose family had migrated to Pangasinan before his birth.
Fleeing poverty, his forefathers traveled from Ilocos towards Cagayan Valley
through the Santa Fe Trail. Like many migrant families, they brought their lifetime
possessions with them, including uprooted molave posts of their old houses and
their alsong, a stone mortar for pounding rice