Epifanio matute biography examples

AWARD-WINNING Tagalog writer Genoveva “Aling Bebang” Edroza Matute passed away during her sleep last March 21. She was 94 years old.

Matute, a UST BS Education graduate, was famous for her work “Kuwento ni Mabuti,” which won the first ever grand prize for Tagalog short story category during the maiden staging of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 1951.

Early life.

Early life.

Genoveva Edroza Matute was married at the age of thirty nine to Epifanio Matute, a newspaper writer.

Biography.

Genoveva Edroza-Matute was a renowned Filipino fictionist and essayist born in She spent 46 years as an educator, teaching at several schools and.

One perished in infancy.

Her teachers in UST, where she also took up her masters and doctorate, included Jose Villa Panganiban, the founder of the Varsitarian; Paz M Latorena, a top fictionist of the first generation of Filipino writers in English and the second literary editor of the Varsitarian; and journalist-diplomat Mauro Mendez.

In 1998, Matute received the Varsitarian’s Parangal Hagbong, given to Thomasian literary figures who have contributed to the flourishing of Philippine letters. It was also in that year when the UST Publishing House published Matute’s collection of short stories and essays in English titled None of the