Estrella Alfon

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Estrella Alfón is a well-known Filipina fictionist in English.

[edit] Achievements

(1917-1983) She was a storywriter, playwright and journalist. Published in 1960, “Magnificence and Other Stories” is her most anthologized work, providing excellent insights into the primacy of the mother-daughter bond as well as into the psychological oppression of women and children. She held the National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center in 1979.

[edit] Stories

  • Magnificence and Other Stories (1960)
  • Stories of Estrella Alfon (1994) (published posthumously)

[edit] References

In other languages