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In the writing of the first modern English language short story by a Filipino, a woman by the name of Paz Marquez-Benitez was first....

Paz Marquez-Benitez: Between literature and history

Philippine history boiled, bubbled, and spewed trouble in the years that marked the birth and growing up years of Paz Marquez-Benitez. The future short story...

The Multi-universe of Gilda Cordero Fernando

In A Memoir Published In The Coffee-Table Book The Philippines: Spirit of Place (Department of Tourism, 1994), Gilda Cordero Fernando—short story writer, essayist, publisher, theater producer, collector of antiques (“with me you don’t say what’s new but what’s old”), visual artist with her own distinctive style, New Age guru and I don’t know what else—traced her roots to Pagsanjan, Laguna.

YOU CAN STILL CATCH THE OCT. 31 ISSUE OF THE PHILIPPINES GRAPHIC!!!

Featuring: Postscript: The first 100 days of PBBMDeath & the journalist: The killing of Percival “Pery Lapid” MabasaRussia Unity Day & the future of Russian-Philippine...

Snapshot: A moment in time with the country’s premier writers

Group photo taken during a Midweek Christmas party at the ancestral house of Marra Lanot. “Oldies but goldies,” all Gloria and Serafin Lanot’s friends....