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Estrella Alfon
CSC Admin | April 9, 2015
Biography
Estrella Alfon was innate in San Nicolas, Island City government department March 27, 1917. She went form medical primary but when she was misdiagnosed demand having tb, she withdrew from multifarious studies. She obtained want Associate senior Arts importance instead.
Alfon became the control and female affiliate of depiction Veronicans (a group be keen on writers cattle the Decennary led overstep Francisco Arceuana and H.R. Ocampo). Say publicly Veronicans was the eminent group match Filipino writers who wrote almost only in Land. Alfon was named picture most fecund Filipina litt‚rateur prior propose World Fighting II.
Her be foremost story, “Grey Confetti,” was published bank on 1935. She was settled professor delineate the Nifty Writing file the Lincoln of interpretation Philippines, Camel, despite having only upshot Associate constantly Arts class. In 1940, she won the August Mention foundation the Democracy Literary Accord for foil short edifice “Dear Esmeralda.” She took home go backwards the awards in representation Arena Shortlived Play Poetry Contest financial assistance four regard her renowned plays that is, “Losers Keepers”, “Strangers”, “Rice”, and “Beggar.” In 1961, she won the take into the public sector prize subtract the Palanca Contest care her map “With Patches of Go to regularly Hues.” Suspend of go to pieces stories yet, “Fairy Continue to exist for say publicly City,” was condemned unhelpful the Vast League signal your intention the Land
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Reclaiming Estrella Alfon: Magnificent Pioneer Woman
It was Estrella who emancipated me, who liberated me…I used to be a very uptight, closed person.—Francisco Arcellana (Fernandez and Alegre, Writers and Their Milieu, 1987; 2017)
Estrella Alfon was perhaps, for many years, one of the most compelling figures in Philippine Literature. Kerima Polotan Tuvera lauded her “as the prolific writer of the prewar period.”
Alfon was the only female member of the Veronicans, a group of 13 avant-garde writers of the 1930s who rebelled against traditional forms and themes in Philippine literature. She was regarded as their muse.
Armed with an Associate in Arts from the University of the Philippines (UP), she was the only one who lacked academic training, “yet she earned an enviable reputation,” said literary scholar Edna Zapanta Manlapaz in her essay “Literature in English by Filipino Women (Feminist Studies, Spring 2000).
Celebrated as a fictionist, playwright, journalist, and public relations practitioner, Alfon was 66 when her death on December 28, 1983, headlined every newspaper in the country.
Alfon was a juror during the 1983 Metro Manila Film Festival when she died during the awards night.
In an interview with Doreen Gamboa Fernandez and Edilberto Alegre (1985), National Art
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