Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, journalist, author and public servant was born in Ermita, Manila into the Guerrero clan of that town. She studied at St. Theresa's College, Manila, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942. Between 1946 and 2006, she worked either as staff member, editor, or editorial columnist at the Evening News, the Philippines Herald, the Manila Chronicle (where she had a daily column for 12 years), the Manila Times, Asia Magazine and Malaya, in addition to contributing lectures, essays, short stories to other publications in the Philippines and the rest of the world. She has published ten books : Woman Enough; A Question of Identity; History Today; The Philippines and the Filipinos; The Rice Conspiracy (a novel), the Centennial Reader, Whatever and the autobiographical trilogy, Myself, Elsewhere; Legends & Adventures; and Exeunt. In the 1960's, she served as Chairman of the Philippine National Historical Commission and in the 1990's, the Manila Historical Commission, and director-general of the Technological Resource Center from 1975 to 1985. She was elected to the Executive Board of the UNESCO, Paris in 1983.