The National Artists of the Philippines for Literature
The purpose of this blog was for us to know more about the National Artists of the Philippines for Literature. This was made for us to be inspired and to know more about the beauty of literature and the artists who made those notable works. Arcellana, Francisco Francisco was a writer, a poet, essayist, critic, journalist, etc. He is also a teacher and one of the most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English. Some of the published books of Arcellana: ❤ Selected Stories (1962) ❤ Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977) ❤ The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1990) Some of his Short Stories are the following: ❤ Frankie ❤ The Man Who Would Be Poe ❤ The Mats “The names which were with infinite slowness revealed seemed strange and stranger still; the colors not bright but deathly dull; the separate letters spelling out the names of the dead among them, did not seem to glow or shine with a festive sheen as d