20th-century Filipino women writers

The list 20th-century Filipino women writers includes Melba Padilla Maggay, Lina Espina-Moore, Suzette Doctolero, Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido and Margie Holmes. The list consists of 29 members.

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Suzette Doctolero

Filipina screenwriter (born 1968)

Overview: Suzette Severo Doctolero (born December 16, 1968) is a Filipina screenwriter for film and television. She is best known for being the creator of Encantadia in 2005 and the succeeding related television ...

Date of birth: 16 December 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Filipino women writers 19T

21st-century Filipino writers 25T

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Maningning Miclat

Filipino writer and artist

Overview: Maningning Miclat (April 15, 1972 – September 29, 2000) was a Filipino poet and painter born in China to Filipino parents. She was known for her Chinese bamboo Zen paintings as well as her poetry.

Date of birth: 15 April 1972

Date of death: 29 September 2000

Age: 28 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Filipino women painters 6T

2000 suicides 37T

Deaths in Metro Manila 75T
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Melba Padilla Maggay

Filipina writer and social anthropologist

Overview: Melba Padilla Maggay (born 1950) is a Filipina writer, social anthropologist, and social activist best known for her academic work and books on culture, social change and development issues, and as the ...

Date of birth: 10 September 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Filipino women anthropologists 3T

21st-century Filipino women writers 16T

20th-century Filipino writers 41T
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Lina Espina-Moore

Filipino writer

Overview: Lina Espina-Moore (born Austregelina Espina) (May 20, 1919 – 2000) was a Cebuano writer. She was a recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award.

Date of birth: 20 May 1919

Date of death: 2000

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Writers from Cebu 24T

Visayan writers 42T

Cebuano writers 46T
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Victorina A. Abellanosa

Dramatist, writer

Overview: Victorina A. Abellanosa (1903 – 1968) was a noted Cebuano dramatist.

Date of birth: 1903

Date of death: 1968

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Filipino writers 41T

Visayan writers 42T

Cebuano writers 46T
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Gina Marissa Tagasa-Gil

Filipino screenwriter

Overview: Gina Marissa Tagasa-Gil (also credited as Gina Marissa Tagasa) is a Filipino television writer and film writer. She is a former resident writer for ABS-CBN Corporation and currently, a resident writer ...

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Paz Latorena

Filipino writer

Overview: Paz M. Latorena (pseudonym, Mina Lys; January 17, 1908 – October 19, 1953) was one of the notable writers of the first generation of Filipino English writers, in both literary writing and education. She ...

Date of birth: 19 January 1908

Date of death: 19 October 1953

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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21st-century Filipino educators 8T

Filipino women short story writers 7T

Filipino women poets 13T
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Soledad Reyes

Filipino writer and academic

Overview: Soledad Sarmiento Reyes (born 5 March 1946) is a distinguished and recognized Philippine literature scholar, literary and art critic, author, anthologist, consultant, professor, instructor, editor, an ...

Date of birth: 5 March 1946

Age: 79

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Editor

Gender: Female

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Filipino literary critics 2T

Women literary critics 423T

Filipino women academics 20T
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Gilda Olvidado

Filipina writer

Overview: Gilda Olvidado (born 9 August 1957 in Cebu City, Cebu) is a Filipino movie and television writer, and melodrama novelist. Her novels have been turned into live-action movies by VIVA Films, and also been ...

Date of birth: 9 August 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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ABS-CBN people 19T

Filipino radio writers 1T

Women radio writers 76T
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Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido

Filipino writer

Overview: Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido (1912, Shanghai, China – 1994) was a Filipino linguist and poet.

Date of birth: 1912

Date of death: 1994

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Filipino women poets 13T

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Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta

Filipino writer

Overview: Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (June 16, 1932 – November 4, 2010) was a Filipino poet, editor, author, and teacher. One of the country's most respected writers, Dimalanta published several books of poetry ...

Date of birth: 16 June 1932

Date of death: 4 November 2010

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Filipino women writers 16T

21st-century Filipino poets 25T

Filipino women poets 13T
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Margie Holmes

Filipina psychologist and journalist

Overview: Margarita Go-Singco Holmes, popularly known as Dr. Margie Holmes, is a popular psychologist specializing in sex therapy in the Philippines.

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Filipino women psychologists 6T

Filipino women journalists 18T

21st-century women physicians 135T
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Rosa Henson

Filipino writer

Overview: María Rosa Luna Henson or "Lola Rosa" ("Grandma Rosa") (1927–1997) was the first Filipina who made public in 1992 her story as a comfort woman (military sex slave) for the Imperial Japanese Army during ...

Date of birth: 1927

Date of death: 1997

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Filipino writers 41T

Filipino non-fiction writers 16T

Women in war in the Philippines 18T
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Marjorie Evasco

Filipino writer

Overview: Marjorie Evasco is an award- winning Filipino poet, born in Maribojoc, Bohol on September 21, 1953. She writes in two languages: English and Cebuano-Visayan and is a supporter of women's rights, especially ...

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Filipino women writers 16T

21st-century Filipino poets 25T

Filipino women poets 13T
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Estrella Alfon

Author

Overview: Estrella D. Alfon (July 18, 1917 – December 28, 1983) was a Filipina author who wrote in English. She held an AA degree from the University of the Philippines and was a member of the UP Writers Club.

Date of birth: 18 July 1917

Date of death: 28 December 1983

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Filipino writers 41T

Writers from Cebu 24T

People from Cebu City 124T
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Virginia R. Moreno

Filipina writer (1923–2021)

Overview: Virginia R. Moreno (April 24, 1923 – August 14, 2021) was a Filipina writer, poet, and playwright.

Date of birth: 1925

Date of death: 14 August 2021

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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21st-century Filipino educators 8T

21st-century Filipino women writers 16T

21st-century Filipino poets 25T
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Rina Jimenez-David

Filipino journalist and columnist (1955–2023)

Overview: Rina Jimenez-David (born January 11, 1955 - November 12, 2023) is notable as a Philippines journalist and columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. She is an advocate for women's health issues. She ...

Date of birth: 11 January 1955

Date of death: 12 November 2023

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Philippine Daily Inquirer people 29T

Writers from Pangasinan 6T

Filipino women 21T
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Merlie M. Alunan

Poet

Overview: Merlie M. Alunan (born December 14, 1943, in Dingle, Iloilo) is a Filipina poet.

Date of birth: 14 December 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Filipino women writers 16T

Filipino women poets 13T

21st-century Filipino writers 18T
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Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

Filipino writer and historian

Overview: Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil (née Carmen Francisco Guerrero; July 19, 1922 – July 30, 2018) was a Filipino journalist, author, historian and public servant. She was a recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award.

Date of birth: 19 July 1922

Date of death: 30 July 2018

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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2018 deaths 9,212T

Filipino women journalists 18T

2018 deaths 7,472T
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Nora Daza

Culinary chef

Overview: Nora Guanzon Villanueva-Daza (December 2, 1928 – September 13, 2013), popularly known as Chef Nora Daza, was a veteran gourmet chef, restaurateur, socio-civic leader, television host and cookbook author ...

Date of birth: 2 December 1928

Date of death: 13 September 2013

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Chef

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Filipino television chefs 3T

Filipino restaurateurs 13T

Cornell University School of Hotel Administration alumni 39T