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Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

Section 3ChE-B

Calong, Analyn Y.

Chan, Aldrin Lorrenz A.

Pacis, Sharmaine F.

University of Santo Tomas

Faculty of Engineering

Lit 102-A



Personal Information

Birth Date: August 21, 1944Birth Date: August 21, 1944Birth Place: ManilaBirth Place: Manila

Her mother is one of theHer mother is one of the

first Filipino womenfirst Filipino women journalist. She wrote journalist. She wrote

fiction.fiction.

Her father is an engineer Her father is an engineer

MMarried to Antonio Hidalgoarried to Antonio Hidalgo

Mother of three daughtersMother of three daughters

Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo



Educational Background

CristinaCristina PantojaPantoja--HidalgoHidalgo

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 Y oung World

Magazine

Childhood

Had a complete library of fairytale books

Realized she wanted to be a writer from

³Novels for Young Adults´

At 8 y/o, she wrote novels patterned

closely after the books she read



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 women¶s 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.



Life After Graduation


At 25 or 26 y/o, she wrote her first story, ³The

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 themartial law

Travelled abroad for 15 years, wherein she wroteautobiographical travel books, after her husband

accepted a job with UNICEF on 1975 One of her seven travel books is S ojourns

published by Greg Brillantes in the Observer &Chato Garcellano in Celebrity during the 80¶s





Valuable lessons:

an awareness of the existence of specific readerswith 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 livingthrough at the moment, and submit a good story ontime

She has five story collections one of which is Ballad of a Lost Season & Other Stories (1987) whichcontains 6 stories

Went back to the Philippines by the year 1990 Wrote T ales of the Rainy Night (1993) when she

was much older

A sense of wonder to permeate the tales

a turning point





W here Only the Moon Rages: 9 T ales (1994)

conventions of the tale were implied by the narrator -the telescoping of time, the dreamlike ambiance, and

the blending of fantasy to reality.

C atch a Falling Star (1999)

The book is made up of 12 stories wherein the idea

of the first story came from Cristina Hidalgo¶schildhood 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 ABook 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.





Wrote a literary criticism entitled Over a

C up of Ginger T ea: C onversations on the Literary Narratives of FilipinoW omen (2006)

The author describes the essays in thiscollection as "mongrols of a sort"--

part personal essay and part literary

commentary or criticism. Theconversations range over thenarratives of several generations of women writers, from Maria PazMendoza and Edith Tiempo to F. H.Batacan and Tara Sering; and cover

conventional realist novels and shortstories, as well as fairy tales, crimefiction, and war memoirs.

Writer and co-editor of several anthologies, literary criticisms,

non-fiction stories and literature textbooks





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 CreativeWriting

Member of the P hilippine 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, Collegeof Arts and Letters



Recuerdo


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

Cristina Hidalgo wrote the novel, Recuerdo, on 1996.

³Recuerdo´ 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.



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.



Awards


Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Fiction, Essay and the Novel

PhilippineGraphic 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 FoundationGrant 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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