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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was a Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist born in 1925 who wrote under the pseudonym "Patricia S. Torres". She graduated from Far Eastern University Girls' High School and married fellow writer Juan Capiendo Tuvera in 1949, with whom she had 10 children. Polotan-Tuvera was awarded multiple literary prizes for her short stories and novels throughout her career. She died in 2011 at age 85 after suffering a stroke.

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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was a Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist born in 1925 who wrote under the pseudonym "Patricia S. Torres". She graduated from Far Eastern University Girls' High School and married fellow writer Juan Capiendo Tuvera in 1949, with whom she had 10 children. Polotan-Tuvera was awarded multiple literary prizes for her short stories and novels throughout her career. She died in 2011 at age 85 after suffering a stroke.

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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was a Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist born in 1925 who wrote under the pseudonym "Patricia S. Torres". She graduated from Far Eastern University Girls' High School and married fellow writer Juan Capiendo Tuvera in 1949, with whom she had 10 children. Polotan-Tuvera was awarded multiple literary prizes for her short stories and novels throughout her career. She died in 2011 at age 85 after suffering a stroke.

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    Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was a Filipino fiction writer, essayist, and journalist born in 1925 who wrote under the pseudonym "Patricia S. Torres". She graduated from Far Eastern University Girls' High School and married fellow writer Juan Capiendo Tuvera in 1949, with whom she had 10 children. Polotan-Tuvera was awarded multiple literary prizes for her short stories and novels throughout her career. She died 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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