Francisco Sionil Jose

Francisco Sionil Jose, has been called a Philippine national treasure. He was introduced to literature in public school and later at the University of Santo Tomas. He is using English rather than our National Language.
His first novel is "The Pretenders".
His works are available in 28 languages. He has been awarded numerous fellowships and awards, most notable being the 1980 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, the most prestigious award of its kind in Asia, and most recently, and the 2004 Pablo Neruda Centennial Award from Chile.

In June of 2001, Jose was awarded the prestigious title of Philippine's National Artist for Literature in an official ceremony at Malacañang.

Carlos Bulosan

Carlos Bulosan is from a poor family, his parents are only farmers and by that situation he decided to go to United States to find work and to help his parents. He did various low-paying jobs like servicing hotels, working in plantations, and being employed at Alaskan canneries. Carlos and his fellow Filipino laborers were also subjected to racial discrimination and brutalities. They experienced being attacked, taken advantage of, and deceived by Americans.

he decided to write a semi autobiographical book entitled "America is in the Heart" that recounts his early life and his labor experiences as a Filipino in a racially divided American society. Bulosan was also active in the Filipino labor movement in America where he advocated labor rights, good working conditions, abolition of discrimination in the workplace, and sufficient wages.

creative writing

Literature, for me its about life were you can express your feelings and emotion through different ways like writing,art,drama and poems. Its about written work.

In the past time people used literature to express their feelings to their love ones but now a days some people didn't use it instead they only using money to express it.

literature is important to us because it is part of our life.