"The Persons Behind the Philippines' literature foundation"

(source:CITATION for Nick Joaquin.31 August 1996.Web.21 June 2009.[http://rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationJoaquinNic.htm].)
Nick Joaquin:Philippines' premier literary artist

Joaquin mastered the Philippines' most popular and widely-read literary form, the newspaper column. In offerings titled "Jottings," "Small Beer," and such, he dished out regular rounds of history, opinion, and gossip with such flair, candor, and intelligence that he managed to raise this quotidian newspaper exercise to an art. Long recognized as the Philippines' premier literary artist, Joaquin has influenced and inspired generations of aspiring writers. English is his preferred metier and he uses the language masterfully to convey his own quintessentially Filipino persona. As he explains, "Whether it is in Tagalog or English, because I am Filipino, every single line I write is in Filipino." We should really recognize him for exploring the mysteries of the Filipino body and soul in sixty inspired years as a writer.(source:CITATION for Nick Joaquin.31 August 1996.Web.21 June 2009.[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationJoaquinNic.htm].)

(source:Michael Viola.Filipino American Hip-Hop and Class Consciousness:Renewing the Spirit of Carlos Bulosan.15 April 2006.Web.21 June 2009.[http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/viola150406.html].)
Carlos Bulosan:Witness to the Filipinos' "HARDSHIPS"

Bulosan was involved in writing more political news, working for the Philippine Commonwealth Times and at least two other newspapers in the Stockton-Salinas areas that focused on the problems of the Filipino workers, according to Evangelista(one of the best biography writer of Bulosan’s life). With the end of the Depression and the start of World War II, during which the Philippines and the United States were allies in the fight against Japan, the status of Filipinos in the United States began to change slightly. In 1943 he published The Voice of Bataan, written in memory of the soldiers who died there. In his short life, Bulosan rose from an impoverished childhood in colonial Philippines to become a celebrated man of letters in the United States, despite deeply entrenched racial barriers. His books and poems bore unsparing witness to the racism and hardships Filipinos encountered in their adopted home(source:Biography:Carlos Bulosan.Web.21 June 2009.[http://www.answers.com/topic/carlos-bulosan].).