Estrella D. Alfon
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Estrella D. Alfon (1917-1983) is a Filipino writer.
Estrella D. Alfon lived her life of being a prolific writer who hailed from Cebu. Because of unwavering and poor health, she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing Center. She died in the year 1983 at the age of 66.
Estrella Alfon has won the Palanca Awards a number of times[1]:
- Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place, 1960)
- With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962)
- Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963)
- The Knitting Straw, One-act Play, (Third place, 1968)
- The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)
