This is the Genoveva Matute biography, an award-winning Filipino author.
GENOVEVA MATUTE BIOGRAPHY – Here are some of the things about the writing career and life story of Genoveva Matute.
Filipino author who is the recipient of the first-ever Palanca Award for Short Story in Filipino, for “Kuwento ni Mabuti” is Genoveva Matute. She was born in Manila on January 3, 1915, and her parents are Anastacio Edroza and Maria Magdalena Dizon. Not much is known about her childhood but she studied at Manila North High School (now Arellano High School), Philippine Normal School, (now Philippine Normal University), and the University of Santo Tomas.
She taught at Cecilio Apostol Elementary School and Arellano High School for 46 long years and was the chair of the Philippine Department of then-Philippine Normal College. She retired in 1980 as a teacher and became the head of the Philippine Normal College under the Department of Filipino.
As a writer and teacher, she earned recognition from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards 1950s – 1960s; Outstanding PNS-PNC Alumna Award in 1966; Manila Arts and Culture Award in 1967; Balagtas National Student Award of the Philippine Writers’ Union in 1988; and the CCP Award for the Arts in 1992.
Matute has authored a number of stories and the most popular story was entitled “Kuwento ni Mabuti”. She won four Palanca Awards and the three stories that won her first prize were:
- in 1951 for her short story entitled Kuwento ni Mabuti
- for her short story “Paglalayag sa Puso ng Isang Bata”
- for her short story entitled Parusain 1961
In 2005, she received an award from the President of the Philippines then, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for his creativeness and dedication.
She died at the age of 94 on March 21, 2009. She died while sleeping and was laid to rest in the Manila North Cemetery.
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