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Literature · collection
Collected Works
- Publisher
- C & E Publishing
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 267
- ISBN
- 9789719946168
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
Aida Rivera-Ford’s stories, essays and other writing gathered in one volume late in her long life in Davao.
Aida Rivera-Ford was born in Jolo, Sulu, in 1926 and spent her working life in Davao as a fiction writer, playwright and teacher. She founded the Ford Academy of the Arts, the first fine arts school in Mindanao, and died at 99. This volume, published in 2012, gathers her short stories in English.
Her earlier books include Now and at the Hour and Other Stories (1958) and Born in the Year 1900 and Other Stories (1997). Her plays appeared as Heroes in Love: Four Plays, and her last book was Oyanguren: The Forgotten Founder of Davao (2010).
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