Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Angela Manalang-Gloria (1907 - 1995) was a Filipino female poet in the English language.
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She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine's Commonwealth Literary Awards in 1940. She was also the author of the poetry collection , Poems, first published in 1940 (and revised in 1950). The collection contained the best of her early work as well as unpublished poems written between 1934-1938. Her last poem, Old Maid Walking on a City Street can also be found here. This book was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing to Rafael Zulueta y da Costa’s verse "Like the Molave".
