4. Alfred Yuson

Alfred Yuson, better known as Krip, is a hall of famer of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Yuson is notable for a number of novels like The Music Child, which was was short listed for the second Man Asian Literary Prize in 2008; and  The Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe, a post-modern novel weaved through different narratives.

3. Gina Apostol

Now based in New York, the Manila-born writer’s first novel, Bibliolepsy, won the 1998 Philippine National Book Award for Fiction, while her last novel Gun Dealer’s Daughter won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award.

2. F. Sionil José

No further introduction is needed for Sionil José, a recipient of the National Artist for Literature and the Philippines’ most widely translated author. He is best known for the Rosales saga, exploring a centennial’s worth of Philippines history spread across five novels.

1. Merlinda Bobis

Bobis is a contemporary Filipino-Australian writer based in Australia well known for her novel Fish-Hair Woman winner of the National Book Award in a Foreign Language in 2014.

Know any other Pinoy authors we should be reading?

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