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Estrella Alfon life and works
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Reclaiming Estrella Alfon: Magnificent pionjär 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 bygd Filipino Women (Feminist Studies, Spring 2000).
Celebrated as a fictionist, playwright, journalist, and public rela
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Estrella Alfon
Filipina author
Estrella Alfon | |
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| Born | (1917-05-27)May 27, 1917 Cebu, Philippine Islands |
| Died | December 27, 1983(1983-12-27) (aged 66) |
Estrella D. Alfon (May 27, 1917 – December 27, 1983) was a Filipina author who wrote in English. She held an AA degree from the University of the Philippines and was a member of the UP Writers Club.
Personal life
[edit]Estrella Alfon was born in Cebu City in 1917. Her parents were shopkeepers.[1] She attended college, studying medicine. After being mistakenly diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, she resigned from her pre-medical education, leaving with an Associate of Arts degree.
Alfon had several children: Alan Rivera, Esmeralda "Mimi" Rivera, Brian Alfon, Estrella "Twinkie" Alfon, and Rita "Daday" Alfon (deceased). She had ten grandchildren.[citation needed] Her youngest daughter was a stewardess for Saudi Arabian Airlines, and was part of the Flight 163 crew on