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- Lualhati Bautista
- Lualhati Bautista is a fictionist and a movie scriptwriter. Her first screenplay was Sakada (Seasonal Sugarcane Workers), 1976, which exposed the plight of Filipino peasants. She is a prizewinning novelist in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. She received a Recognition Award from the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa in 1897. Two of her short stories also won the Palanca Awards: "Tatlong Kuwento ng Buhay ni Juan Candelabra" (Three Stories in the Life of Juan Candelabra), first prize, 1982; and "Buwan, Buwan, Hulugan mo Ako ng Sundang" (Moon, Moon, Drop Me a Sword), third prize, 1983.
Mrs. Bautista was honored on 10 March 2004 at a program hosted by the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALIWW). The occasion marked the 8th Annual Lecture on Vernacular Literature by Women