Lualhati Bautista

Lualhati Bautista was born on 2 December 1945 in Tondo, in Manila. A novelist, screenwriter and women's rights activist, she devoted her work to the years of martial law and the post-Marcos period. Her novels 'Gapô and Bata, Bata… Pa'no Ka Ginawa? also received the Palanca prize, and the latter was brought to the screen in 1998. She wrote screenplays from 1976 onwards, with Sakada. She died in February 2023, aged seventy-seven.

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• NovelDekada '70Lualhati Bautista · 1983Literature