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Literature · short stories
Born in the Year 1900 and Other Stories
- Publisher
- University of the Philippines Press
- Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN
- 9789715421447
- Availability
- In print
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About the book
Short stories by the Jolo-born writer best known for “The Chieftest Mourner”, still one of the most taught stories in Philippine classrooms, from the University of the Philippines Press.
This collection from the University of the Philippines Press brings together 13 stories by Aida Rivera-Ford, the author of "Love in the Cornhusks" and "The Chieftest Mourner". The stories span 100 years and a wide range of characters across the islands. They mix fiction with history and biography in a light, humorous style.
Rivera-Ford was born in Jolo, Sulu, and grew up in different parts of the Visayas and Luzon, as her father was a judge. She graduated from Silliman University in 1949, where she edited the literary magazine Sands and Coral. At the University of Michigan she won the Hopwood Award for fiction. She later taught at the University of Mindanao and Ateneo de Davao, and in 1980 founded the Learning Center of the Arts in Davao, now the Ford Academy of the Arts.
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