Filipino American Literature

Considered to be the Filipino equivalent of the renowned William Shakespeare, Francisco Balagtas, or Baltazar to some, had a big impact...

El Filibusterismo , written by the Filipino patriotic hero Jose Rizal, is a very influential novel that encouraged the Filipino people t...

Jose Rizal, born on June 19, 1861, was a man of many talents and intelligence—he could speak over ten languages, paint, sculpt, and write. ...

From 1968 until 1977 the International Hotel in San Francisco resisted numerous attempts of eviction. For years the I-hotel had pr...

Writer, poet and playwright Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn , born in 1949, had grown up in the Philippines. Her childhood memories were ma...

                 Al Robles was born in 1930 and raised in the Filmore district of San Francisco. His works not only represented his sense of...

M. Evelina Galang on her website describes an occasion where she once encountered a fourth grader who asked her why she writes. “I ...