He was the author of the novels Noli Me Tángere and El filibusterismo, and a number of poems and essays. Birthplace: Calamba, Laguna, Philippines Nationality: Philippines Art Forms: Painting Also ranks #477 on The 500+ Best Writers of All Time Dig Deeper Every Person Who Has Been ...
She and Rizal lived the tragedies of Shakespeare’s poems; she was his second cousin. Her parents highly disapproved of their relationship because of Rizal’s image as a “filibuster” or someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country to support or provoke a ...
(2005), both from Apogee Press. Both her novel American Heaven and her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends That Year, were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. With Paul Hoover, she has translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which was published by ...