Authors
Naguenos
Carlos Ojeda Aureus
An arrogant Spanish Friar in Noli me Tangere by Jose Rizal
Padre Damaso
An epic poem about King Fernando who falls ill and can only be cured by the magical bird.
Ibong Adarna
These three sisters published their novels under the names Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
The Bronte Sisters
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are considered to be this type of novel.
dystopian novel
Voices of Silence
Jesus Cyril M. Conde
A beautiful, enchanting serpent-woman (or goddess) who first tempted and later helped Handyong defeat other monsters.
Oryol
A Scottish general, spurred by witches' prophecies and his wife's ambition, murders his way to the throne.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
Asia's oldest and most prestigious annual creative writing workshop, founded in 1962 by Edilberto and Edith Tiempo
Siliman Writers Workshop
Pete Lacaba's "Prometheus Unbound" is an example of this literary genre.
Protest literature
Bata, Bata, Paano Ka Ginawa?
Lualhati Bautista
In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Heathcliff is hopelessly in love with this woman.
Catherine Earnshaw
Three people are trapped in a single room in Hell.
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
This writer's pen name is derived from the website “Bobong Pinoy.”
Virginia Woolf wrote her masterpiece, To the Lighthouse, in this literary style.
stream of consciousness
Dead Stars
Paz Marquez Benitez
The titular character in a short story by Manuel Arguilla
Leon
Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel.
1984 by George Orwell
She is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Han Kang
Dean Francis Alfar and Nikki Alfar are prominent figures in this literary genre.
Speculative fiction
She is a pioneering writer of creative nonfiction in the PH
Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
The narrator in Merlinda Bobis' Banana Heart Summer
Nenita
Connie Escobar, a wealthy Filipina believes she has two navels and seeks surgery to remove the "extra" one
The Woman Who Had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin
This poetic form is a 19-line, fixed-form poem with five tercets (3-line stanzas) and a final quatrain (4-line stanza), known for its intricate repetition of two rhymes and two refrains.
Villanelle
A literary theory and critical approach that studies how nature is represented in texts and how these portrayals reflect and shape our ecological understanding
Ecocriticism