Francisco Arcellana
Francisco Balagtas
Lualhati Bautista
Carlos Bulosan
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Linda Ty Casper
Ingrid Chua-Go
Gilda Cordero-Fernando
Edmundo Farolan
Zoilo Galang
N. V. M. Gonzalez
Jessica Hagedorn
Nick Joaquin
F. Sionil José
Virginia R. Moreno
Peter Solis Nery
José Rizal
Alejandro R. Roces
Bienvenido Santos
Michelle Cruz Skinner
Edilberto K. Tiempo
Kerima Polotan Tuvera
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an author and editor of nineteen books. She co-founded PAWWA or Philippine American Women Writers and Artists; she also founded Philippine American Literary House. Brainard's works include the World War II novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, andWoman With Horns and Other Stories. She edited several anthologies including Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and two volumes of Growing Up Filipino I and II, books used by educators.
Biography[edit] Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (born 1947) grew up Cebu City, Philippines, the youngest of four children to Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra and Mariano F. Manguerra. The death of her father when she was nine prompted her to start writing, first in journals, then essays and fiction. She attended St. Theresa's College and Maryknoll College in the Philippines; and she did graduate work at UCLA.[2][7][8] Brainard has worked with Asian American youths for which she received a Special Recognition Award from the Los Angeles Board of Education. She has also received awards from the California State Senate, 21st District, several USIS Grants, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an Outstanding Individual Award from the City of Cebu, Philippines, Brody Arts Fund Award, a City of Los Angeles Cultural grant, and many more. The books she has written and edited have also won awards, the Gintong Aklat Award and the International Gourmand Award among them. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish. Brainard's second novel, Magdalena inspired the playwright Jocelyn Deona de Leon to write a stage play, Gabriela's Monologue, which was produced in 2011 by the Bindlestiff Studio in San Francisco as part of Stories XII! annual production showcasing original works for the stage by Pilipino/Filipino American Artists. Brainard's writings can be found in periodicals such as Town and Country, Zee Lifestyle Magazine, Focus Philippines,Philippine Graphic, Amerasia Journal, Bamboo Ridge among others. Her stories have been anthologized in books such asMaking Waves (1989), Songs of Ourselves (1994), On a Bed of Rice (1995), "Pinay: Autobiographical Narratives by Women Writers, 1926-1998" (Ateneo 2000), "Asian American Literature" (Glencoe McGraw-Hill 2001),Cherished (New World Library, 2011), and others.[1][2][9][10][11]
Novels and Short Story Collections which she wrote[edit]
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept.
Acapulco at Sunset and other Stories (short story collection, Anvil, 1995)
Angelica's Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel (a collaborative novel co-authored by Brainard, Cuizon, Evangelista, Montes, and Sarreal, Anvil, 2010)
"Gokkusagi Tanricasi Agladginda" (Turkish edition of "When the Rainbow Goddess Wept" Bilge Kultur Sanat, translated by Fusun Talay, 2001)
Magdalena (novel, Plain View Press, 2002)
Vigan and other Stories (short story collection, Anvil, 2011)
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (novel, Dutton, 1994), which first appeared asSong of Yvonne, (New Day Publishers, 1991) (Plume paperback, 1995), (University of Michigan Press, 1999)
Woman With Horns and Other Stories (short story collection, New Day Publishers, 1988)[1][2][3]
Non-fiction which she wrote[edit]
Cecilia's Diary: 1962-1969 (memoir, Anvil, 2003)
Fundamentals of Creative Writing" (Anvil, 2009)
Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose (personal essays, University of San Carlos Press, 2012)
Philippine Woman in America (New Day Publishers, 1991)[1][2][3]
Kerima Polotan Tuvera From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kerima Polotan-Tuvera (December 16, 1925 – August 19, 2011) was an awardwinning Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist.[1] Some of her stories were published under the pseudonym "Patricia S. Torres". Contents [hide]
1 Personal life
2 Writings during the Martial Law years
3 Works and awards
4 Death
5 References
6 External links
Personal life[edit] Born in Jolo, Sulu, she was christened Putli Kerima. Her father was an army colonel, and her mother taught home economics. Due to her father's frequent transfers in assignment, she lived in various places and studied in the public schools of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Laguna, Nueva Ecija and Rizal.
She graduated from the Far Eastern University Girls' High School. In 1944, she enrolled in the University of the PhilippinesSchool of Nursing, but the Battle of Manila put a halt to her studies. [2] In 1945, she transferred schools to Arellano University, where she attended the writing classes of Teodoro M. Locsin and edited the first issue of the Arellano Literary Review.[2] She worked with Your Magazine, This Week and the Junior Red Cross Magazine. In 1949, she married newsman Juan Capiendo Tuvera, a childhood friend and fellow writer,[3] with whom she had 10 children, among them the fictionist Katrina Tuvera.[3]
Writings during the Martial Law years[edit] Between the years 1966 and 1986, her husband served as the executive assistant [3] and speechwriter[1] of then-PresidentFerdinand Marcos. Her husband's work drew her into the charmed circle of the Marcoses. It was during this time (1969) that Polotan-Tuvera penned the only officially approved biography of the First Lady Imelda Marcos, Imelda Romualdez Marcos: a biography of the First Lady of the Philippines.[4] During the years of martial law in the Philippines, she founded and edited the officially approved FOCUS Magazine,[3] as well as the Evening Post newspaper.
Works and awards[edit] Her 1952 short story, (the widely anthologized) The Virgin, won two first prizes: of the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards and of the Palanca Awards.[2] In 1957, she edited an anthology for the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with English and Tagalog prize-winning short stories from 1951 to 1952.[5] Her short stories “The Trap” (1956), “The Giants” (1959), “The Tourists” (1960), “The Sounds of Sunday” (1961) and “A Various Season” (1966) all won the first prize of the Palanca Awards.[2] In 1966, she published Stories, a collection of eleven stories. In 1970, alongside writing the biography of Imelda Marcos, Polotan-Tuvera collected forty-two of her hard-hitting essays during her years as a staff writer of the Philippines Free Press and published them under the title Author's Circle.[2] In 1976, she edited the four-volume Anthology of Don Palanca Memorial Award Winners. In 1977, she published another collection of thirty-five essays, Adventures in a Forgotten Country. In the late 1990s, the University of the Philippines Press republished all of her major works. [6] The 1961 Stonehill Award was bestowed on Polotan-Tuvera,[2] for her novel The Hand of the Enemy. In 1963, she received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award, an award discontinued in 2003[7] but was then considered the government’s highest form of recognition for artists at the time. The city of Manila conferred on Polotan-Tuvera its Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, in recognition of her contributions to its intellectual and cultural life. [1]
Death[edit]
Polotan-Tuvera died at 85, after a lingering illness.[2] She had suffered a stroke and was wheelchairbound for the last months of her life.[1] The wake was held at Funeraria Paz Sucat, within Manila Memorial Park.[1] National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo, a close friend of Polotan-Tuvera died two days after, prompting a grieving among the nation's writers.[3] The Malacañan Palace through Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda issued a statement: "The Aquino administration is united in grief with a country that mourns their passing."[8] The official statement recognized Polotan-Tuvera's body of work as " crucial to the development of Philippine Literary Fiction written from English" and cited Polotan-Tuvera's influence on "generations of writers." [8] Rina Jimenez-David of the Philippine Daily Inquirer described her short stories and novels as "unsentimental and clear-eyed depictions of heartbreak and disillusion. But her writing was dazzling and unflinching in its honesty."[9] In the eulogy for Polotan-Tuvera, fellow Palanca-winning writer and friend Rony Diaz said, "The number of books that she has written doesn’t really matter because all of them contain stories and essays of compelling beauty and profound wisdom." [3] Polotan-Tuvera is survived by her ten children and nineteen grandchildren. [3]
