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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was a renowned Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who graduated from Far Eastern University Girls' High School. She married fellow writer Juan Capiendo Tuvera in 1949 with whom she had 10 children. Polotan-Tuvera won numerous awards including several Palanca Awards and authored the only approved biography of Imelda Marcos. She passed away in 2011 at age 85 after suffering a stroke.

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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was a renowned Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who graduated from Far Eastern University Girls' High School. She married fellow writer Juan Capiendo Tuvera in 1949 with whom she had 10 children. Polotan-Tuvera won numerous awards including several Palanca Awards and authored the only approved biography of Imelda Marcos. She passed away in 2011 at age 85 after suffering a stroke.

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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was a renowned Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who graduated from Far Eastern University Girls' High School. She married fellow writer Juan Capiendo Tuvera in 1949 with whom she had 10 children. Polotan-Tuvera won numerous awards including several Palanca Awards and authored the only approved biography of Imelda Marcos. She passed away in 2011 at age 85 after suffering a stroke.

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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera

    (December 16, 1925 – August 19, 2011)

    was a Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. Some of her stories were published under the
    pseudonym "Patricia S. Torres". She graduated from the Far Eastern University Girls' High
    School. In 1949, she married newsman Juan Capiendo Tuvera, a childhood friend and fellow
    writer, with whom she had 10 children, among them the fictionist Katrina Tuvera. Polotan penned
    the only officially approved biography of the First Lady Imelda Marcos, Imelda Romualdez
    Marcos: a biography of the First Lady of the Philippines. Polotan was the most awarded writer
    among her contemporaries at one time. She won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards
    for Literature for her short stories “The Virgin” (1952), “The Trap” (1956), “The Giants” (1959),
    “The Tourists” (1960), “The Sounds of Sunday” (1961) and “A Various Season” (1966).
    She received the 1961 Stonehill Award for her novel “The Hand of the Enemy” and was bestowed
    in 1963 the Republic Cultural Heritage Award, the government’s highest form of recognition for
    artists at the time. She died at 85, after a lingering illness. She had suffered a stroke and was
    wheelchair-bound for the last months of her life. The wake was held at Funeraria Paz Sucat, within
    Manila Memorial Park.

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