Complete List of the Names of National Artists for Literature in the Philippines

18. - Gemino H. Abad, 2022, Manila

17. - Ramon Larupay Muzones, 2018, Iloilo

16. - Resil B. Mojares, 2018, Zamboanga del Norte and Cebu

15. - Cirilo F. Bautista, 2014, Manila

14. - Lazaro Francisco, 2009, Bataan

13. - Bienvenido Lumbera, 2006, Batangas

12. - Alejandro R. Roces, 2003, Manila

11. - Virgilio S. Almario (Rio Alma), 2003, Bulacan

10. - F. Sionil Jose, 2001, Pangasinan

9. - Edith L. Tiempo, 1999, Nueva Vizcaya and Negros Oriental

8. - Levi Celerio, 1997, Manila

7. - N.V.M. Gonzales, 1997, Romblon

6. - Rolando S. Tinio, 1997, Manila

5. - Francisco Arcellana, 1990, Manila

4. - Carlos P. Romulo, 1982, Tarlac

3. - Nick Joaquin, 1976, Manila

2. - Jose Garcia-Villa, 1973, Manila

1. - Amado V. Hernandez, 1973, Manila

House of Memory: Essays by Resil B. Mojares

Book title: House of Memory: Essays
Author: Resil B. Mojares
Publisher: Amvil Publishing, Inc.
Publication date: 1997

What does a house speak? It speaks many things: of certain enduring affections, of absence, neglect, infidelities of distance, distraction, forgetting.

In this collection of essays, National Artist for Literature Resil Mojares makes his way into the past by framing his memories and musings as parts of a house. Each essay elicits that familiar nostalgia one gets while visiting an old home and wistfully rummaging through long-forgotten objects that bring back the fond memories of childhood.

Mojares's writings create a sense of wonder about the most ordinary objects and occurrences, demonstrating a richness of emotion and a deep mindfulness many only hope to achieve.

The Maps That Contain Us: Poetry and Flash Fiction (Book)

The Maps That Contain Us: Poetry and Flash Fiction is a book written by Marla Miniano and Reese Lansangan. The book features illustrations by Jamie Catt. The book was published in 2017 by Summit Books. Book design by Tata Yap and editing by Lio Mangubat. 

Book description:

"When your heart soars or sinks in ways that unmoor you, where do you go? To a house bathed with light up in the mountains, where you've been expected all along. To airport terminals and train stations, to empty streets and crowded cities, to a sleepy seaside town. To Tokyo, to Amsterdam, to Honolulu, to New York City. To Disneyland, a library, a funeral home, an apothecary. To a place where there are no crash landings. Somewhere you know by heart. Back to where it all began, retracing your steps until every corner feels like home.

The authors of In Case You Come Back explore love, loss, life, and loneliness in this collection of poetry and prose, mapping out the disasters and triumphs we all navigate in hopes of finally finding our place."

About the authors:

Marla Miniano is the former editor in chief of Candy Magazine and Summit Books, and now the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan Philippines. She is the Author of the YA series Every Girl's Guide and the short story collections Table for Two and From This Day Forward. Her work has been published in Poetry Magazine and on rookiemag.com.

Reese Lansangan is an independent singer-songwriter, pop-folk musician, visual artist, fashion designer, and multi-awarded creative from Manila. As a performer, she has brought her music from local to foreign shores and has been representing the Philippines in several international music festivals since 2015. Stream her music on Spotify.

Jamie Catt is a freelance visual artist and illustrator currently based in San Francisco, CA. Heavily inspired by the world and seeing its magic unfold each day, she produces vivid illustrations that capture the whimsical attributes of her imagination.

Tata Yap is a creative director for Code and Theory Manila, a graphic designer, and design lecturer at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Excerpt:

I arrive earlier than what's written on my boarding pass. I buy a croissant and eat it from the wax paper. I dust little brown flakes off my pants. I song to myself. I crack open the new book that I bought specifically for this trip. It is a ritual of sorts, buying a holiday book. Not finishing is part of the ritual, too. I wrap my hands around myself, feeling the cold through my windbreaker. Instantly, my mind flies to my green dresser drawer back home, where I keep all of my good sweaters. The thing about packing is you always take the things you end up not needing. Always leaving behind the things that should've been brought. I look around. The airport is teeming with people. Here are the men in suits, women on phones, parents clutching souvenirs, children wreaking havoc - the everyday picture of a place like this.

The Maps That Contain Us: Poetry and Flash Fiction

Becoming a Mumbaki: Ritual Change and Continuity in Contemporary Ifugao Society, North Luzon, Philippines

Title: Becoming a Mumbaki: Ritual Change and Continuity in Contemporary Ifugao Society, North Luzon, Philippines

Authors: Analyn V. Salvador-Amores, Marlon M. Martin

Publisher: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 2023

Description: Studies on the customary practices of the Ifugao, an ethnolinguistic group residing in northern Luzon, have received more attention compared to other ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines. However, there has been limited analysis on the current practices of both Ifugao male and female mumbaki (referring to "native priests" or ritual specialists), as well as their progression to a higher rank known as mumbagol.

This book examines the norms and protocols involved in becoming a ritual practitioner amidst changing social, economic, political, and religious circumstances within a contemporary society. The contemporary practice of Ifugao mumbaki provides insights into similar transformations occurring in indigenous religious practices globally.

About the authors:

Analyn V. Salvador-Amores is a professor of Anthropology and former Director of the Museo Kordilyera at the University of the Philippines Baguio. She is also the Project Leader of the Cordillera Textiles Project (CordiTex). She earned her masters and doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University, UK. Her research interest includes non-Western aesthetics, material culture, ethnographic museums and colonial photography in the Philippine Cordillera. Included in her work is the two-time award-winning book: Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2013 (National Book Development Award, 2013 and National Academy of Science and Technology, 2016). As a public service professor, she continues to engage indigenous communities in her work, and promoting indigenous knowledge in different platforms. She actively carries out anthropological fieldwork among the indigenous communities in Northern Luzon, and have published extensively on this subject.

Marlon M. Martin is an Ifugao and the Chief Operating Officer of the Save the Ifugao Rice Terraces Movement (SITMo). He is the founder of Ifugao Indigenous Peoples Education Center and Community Heritage Galleries in Kiangan, Ifugao. He passionately leads community-based initiatives focused on cultural advocacy and conservation. As a dedicated community organizer and cultural worker, he engages in extensive research, authoring publications that delve into Ifugao indigenous knowledge systems, rituals, and traditional resource management. Committed to passing on the cultural legacy, he actively collaborates with the academe. The recent one is the co-authored book with UCLA's Stephen Acabado, Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines: Decolonizing Ifugao History (2022, University of Arizona Press and Ateneo de Naga university Press.)

Becoming a Mumbaki: Ritual Change and Continuity in Contemporary Ifugao Society, North Luzon, Philippines

Who Is Howard T. Fry

The following text is from the "About the Author" page for A History of the Mountain Province, a book written by Howard T. Fry:

Dr. Howard T. Fry was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where he won an organ scholarship in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served first in the army, and then as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Completing his studies in Cambridge after the war, he spent several years as a school-master, and, for a while, returned to the Royal Air Force as a flying instructor.

In 1963 he returned to Cambridge University to study for Ph.D., and his thesis (which was later published) on the notable eighteenth-century merchant and hydrographer of the English East India Company, Alexander Dalrymple, first awakened his interest in the Philippines; for Dalrymple tried hard to establish an English trading base in the Sulu archipelago, and his negotiations for a territorial cession (or lease) of North of Borneo to the East India Company has proved of political significance in our own time.

In 1968 Dr. Fry joined the history department of James Cook University of Queensland, Australia, where he was asked to organize a program of Southeast Asian historical studies. He there upon made the study of Philippine history one of his own fields of specialization, and James Cook University became the only university in Australia to make the study of Philippine history a top priority in its Southeast Asian program.

Dr. Fry, is married to a Filipina.