Meeting some Famous Filipino Literate

• Marivi Soliven Blanco

Marivi Soliven Blanco is a Palanca Award-winning writer. She earned a master's degree in teaching from Simmons College in Boston, U.S.A. She received her bachelor's degree in mass communications magna cum laude from the University

of the Philippines. Ms. Blanco is the author of The Unicorn, The Toad and the Princess, Philippine Fright: 13 Scary Stories, Chief Flower Girl, as well as all the books in the Jenny and Jay Pinoy Private Eyes series. She launched her writing career after winning second prize in the 1992 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for her short story "Chun."

• Norma Olizon-Chikiamco

Norma Olizon-Chikiamco ("Pan de Sal Saves the Day," First Prize, 1995 Don Carlos Palance Memorial Awards for Literature) graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from St. Theresa's College. She is currently editor in chief of Food Magazine and a former editor of Sunday Globe Magazine, Metro Magazine, and Celebrity Magazine.

• Lina B. Diaz de Rivera

("The Gem," Second Prize, 1996 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature) received her doctorate in English and her master's degree in reading from the University of the Philippines and her bachelor's degree in English from the Far Eastern University. Dr. Diaz de Rivera is the author of the textbooks Ferry in the Sun, Golden Galleon, and English for High School.