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| Kerima Polotan Tuvera |
Polotan Tuvera was christened as Putli Kerima. (Putli means Princess). Her father was an army colonel, and her mother taught home economics. Polotan Tuvera was born in Jolo, Sulu. she lived in various places and studied in the public schools of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Laguna, Nueva Ecija and Rizal. Due to her father’s frequent transfers in assignment.
She graduated in Far Eastern University Girls' High School. In 1944 She enrolled in University of the Philippines School of Nursing. In 1945 she transferred schools to Arellano University, where she attended the writing classes of Teodoro M. Locsin and edited the first issue of the Arellano Literary Review. Her education has been repeatedly interrupted by illness, financial difficulties and later marriage and the care of children of which she has five. She is a prolific writer.
Some of her stories have been published under the pseudonym of Patricia S. Torres. In 1957, she edited an anthology for the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, which English and Tagalog prize-winning short stories from 1951 to 1952. In 1966, she published Stories, a collection of eleven stories.
Polotan-Tuvera died at 85, after a lingering illness. She had suffered a stroke and was wheelchair-bound for the last months of her life. The wake was held at Funeraria Paz Sucat, within Manila Memorial Park. Rina Jimenez-David of the Philippine Daily Inquirer described her short stories and novels as "unsentimental and clear-eyed depictions of heartbreak and disillusion. But her writing was dazzling and unflinching in its honesty."
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