Epifanio matute biography
Epifanio matute biography
Epifanio matute biography summary!
This is the Genoveva Matute biography, an award-winning Filipino author.
GENOVEVA MATUTE BIOGRAPHY – Here are some of the things about the writing career and life story of Genoveva Matute.
Filipino author who is the recipient of the first-ever Palanca Award for Short Story in Filipino, for “Kuwento ni Mabuti” is Genoveva Matute.
She was born in Manila on January 3, 1915, and her parents are Anastacio Edroza and Maria Magdalena Dizon. Not much is known about her childhood but she studied at Manila North High School (now Arellano High School), Philippine Normal School, (now Philippine Normal University), and the University of Santo Tomas.
She taught at Cecilio Apostol Elementary School and Arellano High School for 46 long years and was the chair of the Philippine Department of then-Philippine Normal College.
She retired in 1980 as a teacher and became the head of the Philippine Normal College under the Department of Filipino.
As a writer and teacher, she earne