Evangelina Guerrero y Entrala de Zacarías (1904–1949) was a Filipina poet, short story writer and journalist in the Philippines. She edited the magazine Excelsior. Her stories and poetry were published there and in newspapes like La Opinión and La Vanguardia.[1]

Life

Evangelina Guerrero Zacarías was born on May 29, 1904, the eldest daughter of Fernando María Guerrero and Doña Remedios Entrala.[2]

Shortly after her father died in 1929, she married Antonio Zacarías.[3] In 1935 she won the Zóbel Prize for her poetry collection Kaleidoscopio espiritual,[4] sharing the prize with José Reyes. In poor health after World War II, she declined the offer to make her the first female member of the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language.[1] She died

She was a close friend of Angela Manalang Gloria.[5] On the 10th anniversary of her death friends joined to publish a collection of her poetry.[1]

Works

  • Kaleidoscopio espiritual; colección de poesías. 1959.
  • 'Cuando los Dioses Iloran' [When the Gods Cry], 1936.
  • 'Como las aguas dormidas' [Like Still Waters], 1937.

References

  1. 1 2 3 De la Peña, Wystan (2011). "Guerrero Zacarías, Evangelina". In Maureen Ihrie; Salvador Oropesa (eds.). World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 472–3. ISBN 978-0-313-08083-8.
  2. ↑ Cultural Center of the Philippines (1994). CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art: Philippine literature. Cultural Center of the Philippines. p. 662. ISBN 978-971-8546-43-7.
  3. ↑ Estrellita Valeros- Gruenberg (2000). The De La Salle University Reader: Writings from the Different Regions of the Philippines. De La Salle University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-971-555-330-8.
  4. ↑ Irene Villaescusa-Illán (2020). Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature. Springer Nature. p. 34. ISBN 978-3-030-51599-7.
  5. ↑ Edilberto Alegre; Doreen Fernandez (2017). Writers & Their Milieu: An Oral History of First Generation Writers in English, Part 1. Anvil Publishing, Inc. p. 73. ISBN 978-971-27-2737-5.

Further reading

  • Wystan, De la Peña (1999). "Extracting the Narrative of Woman in the Stories of Evangelina Guerrero Zacarias". Linguae et Litterae. 3: 91–127.
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