List of Tagalog literary works
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Notable Literary Works

  • Florante at Laura
    Florante at Laura
    Florante at Laura by Francisco Baltazar is considered as one of the masterpieces of Philippine literature. Balagtas wrote the epic during his imprisonment. The work itself is dedicated to María Asuncion Rivera, his sweetheart, whom he nicknamed "M. A...

    (Florante and Laura)
  • Magandang Balita Biblia
    Magandang Balita Biblia
    The Magandang Balita Biblia is one of the two most widely circulated translation of the Christian Bible in the Tagalog language [the other entitled Ang Bagong Ang Biblia, a revision of the earlier Ang Biblia ], first published by the Philippine Bible Society in 1973...

    (Good News Bible)
  • Ang Banal na Biblia (The Holy Bible)
  • Ang Dating Biblia (The Old Bible), 1905

Writers

  • Francisco Balagtas
    Francisco Balagtas
    Francisco Baltazar y dela Cruz , known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature...

  • Lualhati Bautista
    Lualhati Bautista
    Lualhati Torres Bautista is one of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the history of contemporary Philippine Literature. Her novels include Dekada '70, Bata, Bata, Pa'no Ka Ginawa?, and ‘GAPÔ....

  • José de la Cruz
    José de la Cruz
    José de la Cruz , more popularly known as Huseng Sisiw, was one of the great Filipino writers during the Spanish regime. He was the mentor of Francisco Balagtas in poetry. He was born in Tondo, Manila....

  • Bienvenido Lumbera
    Bienvenido Lumbera
    Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines.He is a National Artist of the Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications...

  • Rolando Tinio
    Rolando Tinio
    Rolando Santos Tinio was a Filipino poet, dramatist, director, actor, critic, essayist and educator.-Biography:...

  • Jose Bernardino Capino
  • Rene O. Villanueva
  • Rodolfo R. Lana

See also

  • Tagalog pocketbooks
    Tagalog pocketbooks
    Tagalog romance novels, sometimes collectively referred to as Tagalog pocketbooks, Tagalog paperbacks, Tagalog romance paperbacks, Tagalog romance pocketbooks, Philippine romance novels, Filipino romance novels, Pinoy pocketbooks, Tagalog popular novels, or Tagalog popular romance literature are...

  • Philippine Literature in Filipino
    Philippine Literature in Filipino
    -Notable Literary Works in Philippine languages:Florante at Laura, by Francisco Balagtas.-Availability of literature in Filipino outside of the Philippines:...

     which links to articles about Literatures of other Philippine languages
    Philippine languages
    The Philippine languages are a 1991 proposal by Robert Blust that all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi—except Sama–Bajaw and a few languages of Palawan—form a subfamily of Austronesian languages...

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