Carmen Guerrero Nakpil: ‘The greatest National Artist for Literature we never had’

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, one of the country's most eminent writers---a columnist, essayist, author, as well as a public servant and international technocrat---died peacefully at 1:30 a.m., July 30, at her home in Makati. She had been suffering from a bout of incipient pneumonia when her heart stopped. She was 96. She was considered ahead of her time in many ways, championing women's rights---and voices---before it became fashionable or even recognizable, in the ashes of postwar Manila. As the chair of the National Historical Commission, a decade later, she took up tirelessly the task of marking historical sites in a rebuilt Manila. She circulated calendars of important nat...

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