University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Engineering Lit 102-A

Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
Section 3ChE-B Calong, Analyn Y. Chan, Aldrin Lorrenz A. Pacis, Sharmaine F.

Personal Information
Birth Date: August 21, 1944 Birth Place: Manila Her mother is one of the first Filipino women journalist. She wrote fiction. Her father is an engineer Married to Antonio Hidalgo Mother of three daughters
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Educational Background
Childhood Had a complete library of fairytale books Realized she wanted to be a writer from Novels for Young Adults At 8 y/o, she wrote novels patterned closely after the books she read
High School High School Valedictorian at St Paul College, Quezon City Started off as a staffer then literary editor before becoming editor-in-chief of the school paper On her junior year, she wrote an article published in The Filipino Home Companion On her senior year, she was invited to join the staff of Young World Magazine
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Educational Background
College Graduated Magna Cum Laude in Bachelor of Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters) in the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Apprenticed under Joe Burgos in The Blue Quill (PhiLets College Paper) Sophomore year, applied to The Varsitarian She was invited to write a column for the Youth section of Manila Chronicle Taught an undergraduate literature course while studying at the UST Graduate School, working as assistant editor for womens section of The Graphic Magazine and editor-in-chief of Finished MA in Literature at UST Graduate School in 1967 Received a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1993.
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Life After Graduation

At 25 or 26 y/o, she wrote her first story, The Ghost, published on Graphic by the young Ninotchka Rosca Married to Antonio Hidalgo, a teaching staff of PUP and a political for Graphic She and her husband lost their jobs during the martial law Travelled abroad for 15 years, wherein she wrote autobiographical travel books, after her husband accepted a job with UNICEF on 1975 One of her seven travel books is Sojourns published by Greg Brillantes in the Observer & Chato Garcellano in Celebrity during the 80s
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Life After Graduation

Valuable lessons: an awareness of the existence of specific readers with their own tastes and biases an awareness of the importance of clarity & economy, a respect for facts and a respect for deadlines the kind of professionalism which enables one to put aside whatever private drama one might be living through at the moment, and submit a good story on time She has five story collections one of which is Ballad of a Lost Season & Other Stories (1987) which contains 6 stories Went back to the Philippines by the year 1990 Wrote Tales of the Rainy Night (1993) when she was much older A sense of wonder to permeate the tales a turning point
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Life After Graduation

Where Only the Moon Rages: 9 Tales (1994) conventions of the tale were implied by the narrator the telescoping of time, the dreamlike ambiance, and the blending of fantasy to reality. Catch a Falling Star (1999) The book is made up of 12 stories wherein the idea of the first story came from Cristina Hidalgos childhood diaries. The story was progressing into recurring events wherein Patricia, the protagonist, from grade 2 to her senior high school, eventually recounted her experiences. Wrote two novels: Recuerdo (1996) and A Book of Dreams (2002) 5 characters search for faith through dream narratives interwoven with straightforward narration & pages from the notebook of one of the characters, consisting of tales, sketches and fragments of poetry etc. Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

Life After Graduation

Wrote a literary criticism entitled Over a Cup of Ginger Tea: Conversations on the Literary Narratives of Filipino Women (2006) The author describes the essays in this collection as "mongrols of a sort"-part personal essay and part literary commentary or criticism. The conversations range over the narratives of several generations of women writers, from Maria Paz Mendoza and Edith Tiempo to F. H. Batacan and Tara Sering; and cover conventional realist novels and short stories, as well as fairy tales, crime fiction, and war memoirs. Writer and co-editor of several anthologies, literary criticisms, non-fiction stories and literature textbooks
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Life After Graduation

Credentials Past Vice President for Public Affairs of the University of the Philippines and an associate of the UP Institute of Creative Writing Associate for Fiction at the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing Member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC) Past Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing Past Director of the University of the Philippines Press Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the U.P. Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters

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Recuerdo
Cristina Hidalgo wrote the novel, Recuerdo, on 1996. Recuerdo is a Spanish term that means memory, souvenir or memento. Recuerdo is an epistolary novel consisted of messages sent through email. The messages all came from Amanda, a middle-aged widow, to her daughter Marisa, a university student. Amanda is in Bangkok while Marisa is in Manila. Writing letters is Amanda's way of sorting out her life and helping Marisa understand their family' past. Amanda use her own mother's (Isabel) stories in many of these letters.
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents.

About love - love between men and women; love of mothers for their daughters; love for the beleaguered and benighted homeland About strange connections between literature and life Hidalgo has been very firm about her stand on this particular novel, it isn't realistic nor does it have any attempt on realism ---- it is a romantic novel. Fellow writer Ophelia Dimalanta reinforced the claim of Recuerdo being a romantic novel

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Contribution

Hidalgo's critical essays, which reflects her interest in fictional writing by Filipino women, serves a much-needed contribution to a developing body of feminist scholarship in the country today.
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Awards
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Fiction, Essay and the Novel Philippine Graphic Awards for Fiction Philippines Free Press Awards for Fiction Focus Awards for Fiction National Book Awards from The Manila Critics' Circle British Council Fellowship to Cambridge U.P. President's Award for Outstanding Publication U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Artist of the Year U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Teacher (Professor Level) Ellen F. Fajardo Foundation Grant for Excellence in Teaching Outstanding Thomasian Writer Award U.P. Gawad Chancellor Hall of Fame Award U.P. System International Publication Awards Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair in Creative Writing, Ateneo de Manila University
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