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Gilda Cordero-Fernando

Born

in Manila, Philippines

June 04, 1930

Died

August 27, 2020

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Gilda Cordero-Fernando was a multiawarded writer, publisher and cultural icon from the Philippines. She was born in Manila, has a B.A. from St. Theresa’s College-Manila, and an M.A. from the Ateneo de Manila University.

She started off as a writer and was awarded the Palanca Award for Literature several times. She also wrote and illustrated children’s books.Her short stories are collected in The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker (1962) and A Wilderness of Sweets (1973).

She had a very rich life as a publisher. In 1978 she launched GCF Books, which published landmark books on Philippine cultural history: Streets of Manila (1977), Turn of the Century (1978), Philippine Ancestral Houses (1980), Being Filipino (1981), The History of th ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 470 ratings · 47 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Wilderness of Sweets 3.86 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1973	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: A Collection of Short Stories by Gilda Cordero-Fernando, N.V.M. Gonzalez (Introduction), Teofilo Montifar (Cover) 3.76 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Circle by Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Gilbert Daroy (Illustrator) 4.42 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gilda Cordero Fernando Sampler really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philippine Food and Life 4.13 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story Collection 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cuaresma by Gilda Cordero-Fernando (Editor), Fernando Nakpil-Zialcita (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Full Moon: Lessons of my Life 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ladies Lunch and Other Ways to Wholeness by Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Mariel N. Francisco, E. Aguilar Cruz (Illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Kings by Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Gilbert R. Perez (Illustrator), Dennis L. Espiritu (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Pidgin, pidgin everywhere. A peculiarity of dropping the connective, the article, of translating literally, of using present for past, present for future. We Filipinos did not speak pidgin. Our English was straight from the grammar texts.”
― Gilda Cordero Fernando

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