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1. ESTRELLA D. ALFON 1918-1983

2. Born in Cebu, Alfon set many of her stories in the fictional community of Espeleta, a recognizable lower middle-class district of that city. Though she wrote mostly in English, she also wrote some stories in Cebuano. Of the women writers of the region, she is among the most prominent.

3. Her first story, “Grey Confetti” (1935), was quickly followed by many others. The only female member of the Veronicans, an avant garde group of writers in in the 1930s led by Francisco Arcellana and H.R. Ocampo, she was also regarded as their muse.

4. A regular contributor to Manila-based national magazines “Dear Esmeralda,” won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award of 1940 Seventeen of her stories appear in Magnificence and Other Stories (1960)

5. “When I say that these stories are powerful as stories, I mean they are compelling. They are told with urgency. They make you think of the ancient mariner.”

6. The Collected Stories of Estrella Alfon, was compiled by her long time friend Lina Espina Moore in 1994. Alfon died in 1983, following a heart attack suffered onstage during the Awards night of the Manila Film Festival.