List of Filipino Writers

Filipinos are known to be artistic, creative, innovative,Abad who was born in 1894 and died in 1970. He hailed
and talented. God seems to have given Filipinos sofrom Cebu, Philippines and was known as an essayist,
many talents and such talents include the skill forplaywright, fictionist and poet. Among the novels that
writing. The Philippines is consisted of countless writers.Antonio Abad had written were El Ultimo Romantico,
As a matter of fact, Filipinos are so talented in writingLa Oveja de Nathan, Dagohoy, El Campeon, and La
that even one of their national heroes used the pen asVida Secreta de Daniel Espeña. The first two
a weapon to fight during the war instead of firearmsnovels mentioned were awarded the Premio Zobel
or other forms of deadly weapons. Such national heroaward in 1928 and 1929. This Filipino writer extended
wrote and wrote to express what Filipinos feel abouthis contribution in the literary field by becoming a
the war.professor in such universities as the University of the
In this regard, why don’t we discuss thePhilippines and Far Eastern University. As a matter of
achievements of some of the Filipino writers whofact, Antonio Abad was one of the founders of the
have contributed a lot to the entertainment and theDepartment of Spanish of the University of the
publishing industries of the Philippines.Philippines. The son of Antonio Abad, Gemino H. Abad,
One of the most famous Filipino writers is Antoniowas also a poet.