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20th-century Filipino writers

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The list 20th-century Filipino writers includes Eric Quizon, Melba Padilla Maggay, F. Landa Jocano, Suzette Doctolero and Jose Javier Reyes. The list consists of 53 members and 6 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Eric Quizon
    Filipino actor
    Eric Quizon
    Overview: Enrico Smith Quizon (born January 20, 1967) is a Filipino actor, director, producer, writer, and comedian. He is the 12th child of the "King of Comedy" Dolphy. He is a co-owner of Café Famous in Greenbelt ...
    Date of birth: 20 January 1967
    Age: 58
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    21st-century Filipino writers 18T
    Filipino male comedians 142T
    Male actors from Manila 128T
  • 2.

    Severino Reyes
    Director and playwright
    Severino Reyes
    Overview: Severino Reyes (February 11, 1861 – September 15, 1942) was a Filipino writer, playwright, and director of plays. He used the pen name Lola Basyang. He was nicknamed "Don Binoy".
    Date of birth: 12 February 1861
    Date of death: 15 September 1942
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
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    Reyes family (Philippines) 3T
    Writers from Manila 44T
    People from Santa Cruz, Manila 37T
  • 3.

    Suzette Doctolero
    Filipina screenwriter (born 1968)
    Suzette Doctolero
    Overview: Suzette Severo Doctolero (born December 16, 1968) is a Filipina screenwriter for film and television. She is best known for being the creator of Encantadia in 2005 and the succeeding related television ...
    Date of birth: 16 December 1968
    Age: 56
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century Filipino women writers 19T
    20th-century Filipino women writers 21T
    21st-century Filipino writers 25T
  • 4.

    Virgilio Enriquez
    Filipino Psychologist
    Overview: Virgilio G. Enriquez is known as the Father of Filipino Psychology "Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino", and the founder of the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino, (corporate name: National Association ...
    Date of birth: 24 November 1942
    Date of death: 31 August 1994
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Educator
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    20th-century Filipino medical doctors 34T
    20th-century physicians 1,578T
    University of the Philippines faculty 104T
  • 5.

    Melba Padilla Maggay
    Filipina writer and social anthropologist
    Overview: Melba Padilla Maggay (born 1950) is a Filipina writer, social anthropologist, and social activist best known for her academic work and books on culture, social change and development issues, and as the ...
    Date of birth: 10 September 1950
    Age: 74
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Filipino women anthropologists 3T
    21st-century Filipino women writers 16T
    20th-century Filipino women writers 20T
  • 6.

    F. Landa Jocano
    Filipino anthropologist
    Overview: Felipe Landa Jocano (February 5, 1930 – October 27, 2013) was a Filipino anthropologist, educator, and author known for his significant body of work within the field of Philippine Anthropology, and in ...
    Date of birth: 5 February 1930
    Date of death: 27 October 2013
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century Filipino writers 18T
    21st-century male writers 1,614T
    20th-century male writers 5,043T
  • 7.

    Ruperto Alaura
    Filipino, Writer
    Overview: Ruperto Alaura is a Cebuano writer. He was a LUDABI prize winner in 1961, the same organization that Martin Abellana was in as well.
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
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    Visayan writers 42T
    Cebuano writers 46T
    Cebuano 116T
  • 8.

    Victorina A. Abellanosa
    Dramatist, writer
    Overview: Victorina A. Abellanosa (1903 – 1968) was a noted Cebuano dramatist.
    Date of birth: 1903
    Date of death: 1968
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Filipino women writers 20T
    Visayan writers 42T
    Cebuano writers 46T
  • 9.

    Gina Marissa Tagasa-Gil
    Filipino screenwriter
    Gina Marissa Tagasa-Gil
    Overview: Gina Marissa Tagasa-Gil (also credited as Gina Marissa Tagasa) is a Filipino television writer and film writer. She is a former resident writer for ABS-CBN Corporation and currently, a resident writer ...
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    ABS-CBN people 26T
    21st-century Filipino women writers 20T
    20th-century Filipino women writers 22T
  • 10.

    Jose Javier Reyes
    Filipino, Film Director
    Jose Javier Reyes
    Overview: Jose "Joey" Javier Reyes (born October 21, 1954) is a Filipino professor, writer, director, miscellaneous crew and actor. He has won awards at the Gawad Urian, Metro Manila Film Festival and Filipino Star ...
    Date of birth: 21 October 1954
    Age: 70
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Film Director
    Gender: Male
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    De La Salle University alumni 319T
    Filipino LGBTQ people 110T
    Pinoy Dream Academy 36T
  • 11.

    Marcelino Navarra
    Filipino Visayan editor, poet, and father of modern Cebuano short story
    Overview: Marcelino M. Navarra (June 2, 1914 – March 28, 1984) was a Filipino Visayan editor, poet, and writer from Cebu, Philippines. He was regarded as the father of modern Cebuano short story for his use of ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1914
    Date of death: 28 March 1984
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Poet
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    Writers from Cebu 24T
    Cebuano literature 13T
    Cebuano language 13T
  • 12.

    Gardeopatra Quijano
    Filipino Visayan writer and first feminist Cebuano fictionist
    Overview: Gardeopatra Gador Quijano (April 27, 1918 – May 3, 2003) was a Filipino Visayan dentist, teacher, writer, and fiction author known for her novel, Lourdes, which is regarded as the first feminist novel ...
    Date of birth: 27 April 1918
    Date of death: 3 May 2003
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
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    20th-century dentists 354T
    Filipino dentists 2T
    Writers from Misamis Oriental 3T
  • 13.

    Vicente Ranudo
    Filipino Visayan writer and father of Cebuano poetry
    Overview: Vicente Ranudo (April 29, 1882 – March 6, 1930) was a Filipino Visayan writer, poet laureate, and Cebu provincial civil servant. He wrote for various pre-war periodicals, including the first Cebuano n ...
    Date of birth: 29 April 1882
    Date of death: 6 March 1930
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Poet
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    Writers from Cebu 24T
    Cebuano literature 13T
    Cebuano language 13T
  • 14.

    Soledad Reyes
    Filipino writer and academic
    Overview: Soledad Sarmiento Reyes (born 5 March 1946) is a distinguished and recognized Philippine literature scholar, literary and art critic, author, anthologist, consultant, professor, instructor, editor, an ...
    Date of birth: 5 March 1946
    Age: 79
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Editor
    Gender: Female
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    Filipino literary critics 2T
    Women literary critics 423T
    Filipino women academics 20T
  • 15.

    Maria Odulio de Guzman
    Filipino teacher, educator, principal, writer and author
    Overview: María Odulio de Guzmán was a teacher, educator, principal, writer, and author. She was the first Filipino female principal of a secondary school in the Philippines. She worked as a teacher at the Nueva ...
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Filipino educators 25T
    Writers from Nueva Ecija 5T
    Women lexicographers 32T
  • 16.

    Alex Tizon
    American journalist
    Alex Tizon
    Overview: Tomas Alexander Asuncion Tizon (October 30, 1959 – March 23, 2017) was a Filipino-American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. His book Big Little Man, a memoir and cultural history, explores ...
    Date of birth: 30 October 1959
    Date of death: 23 March 2017
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Oregon Book Award winners 89T
    21st-century Filipino writers 18T
    21st-century American journalists 721T
  • 17.

    Gilda Olvidado
    Filipina writer
    Gilda Olvidado
    Overview: Gilda Olvidado (born 9 August 1957 in Cebu City, Cebu) is a Filipino movie and television writer, and melodrama novelist. Her novels have been turned into live-action movies by VIVA Films, and also been ...
    Date of birth: 9 August 1957
    Age: 67
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    ABS-CBN people 19T
    Filipino radio writers 1T
    Women radio writers 76T
  • 18.

    Margie Holmes
    Filipina psychologist and journalist
    Overview: Margarita Go-Singco Holmes, popularly known as Dr. Margie Holmes, is a popular psychologist specializing in sex therapy in the Philippines.
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Female
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    Filipino women psychologists 6T
    Filipino women journalists 18T
    21st-century women physicians 135T
  • 19.

    Rosa Henson
    Filipino writer
    Rosa Henson
    Overview: María Rosa Luna Henson or "Lola Rosa" ("Grandma Rosa") (1927–1997) was the first Filipina who made public in 1992 her story as a comfort woman (military sex slave) for the Imperial Japanese Army during ...
    Date of birth: 1927
    Date of death: 1997
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Filipino women writers 20T
    Filipino non-fiction writers 16T
    Women in war in the Philippines 18T
  • 20.
    Overview: Estrella D. Alfon (July 18, 1917 – December 28, 1983) was a Filipina author who wrote in English. She held an AA degree from the University of the Philippines and was a member of the UP Writers Club.
    Date of birth: 18 July 1917
    Date of death: 28 December 1983
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Writers from Cebu 24T
    People from Cebu City 124T
    Visayan writers 42T
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