Carmen Guerrero Nakpil (born 1922) is a Filipino writer and historian.
She came from a literary family, which includes her brother, the diplomat and novelist León María Guerrero III, uncles Fernando María Guerrero and Manuel Guerrero who were poets and essayists, and cousin Wilfrido María Guerrero, who was a playwright and stage director.[1][2]
Before the war, she married Ismael Cruz, with whom she had two children, one of whom is Gemma Cruz Araneta. Years after Cruz' death in the World War II, she married Angel Nakpil, an architect, with whom she then had three children.[2]
In the reconstruction years after World War II, she went into journalism. She began as a proofreader, and later worked as a magazine editor and columnist. Publications she wrote for include the Manila Chronicle, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Evening News Saturday Magazine, Weekly Women's Magazine, and Malaya.[2]
In the late 1980s, she became the chairperson of the National Historical Commission, and worked for the cultural committee of the Philippine commission for UNESCO, and later the UNESCO General Assembly.[1]