National Artist For Literature 2003. Alejandro reyes roces national artist for literature (2003) alejandro roces, is a short story writer and essayist, and considered as the country’s best writer of comic short stories. 2003, otherwise known as the honors code of the philippines, conferred additional prestige on the national artist award by raising it to the level of a cultural order, fourth in precedence among the orders and decorations that comprise the honors of the philippines, and equal in rank to the order of national.
Almario, also known as rio alma, is a poet, literary historian and critic, who has revived and reinvented traditional filipino poetic forms, even as he championed modernist poetics. Laya prize for best book of fiction (2005) gintong aklat award (2005) lifetime achievement award, premio arejola foundation (2007) Laya prize for best novel (2004) juan c.
He is known for his widely anthologized my rother’s peculiar hicken.
Bautista , national artist for literature and died in 2016 Bautista , national artist for literature and died in 2016 He put a face to the filipino writer in. A national artist in literature who wrote 22 books and who happens to be a general of us and philippine army.