The trap by kerima polotan
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Kerima Polotan Tuvera
Si Kerima Puluotan Tuviera (16 Disyembre 1925 – 19 Agosto 2011) ay isang Pilipinong manunulat. Isinilang sa Jolo, Sulu, siya ay ipinangalang Putli Kerima. Ang kanyang tatay ay isang koronel sa sandatahang lakas at ang kanyang nanay ay nagtuturo ng ekonomiyang pambahay. Dahil laging pumapalit ng destino ang kanyang tatay, siya ay nakatira sa iba’t iabng lugar at nagaral sa pambulikong paaralan sa Pangasi, Tarlac, Laguna, Nueva Ecija at Rizal. Siya ay nagtaposng mula sa Far Eastern University High School. Noong 1934, ay nagaral sa ng pagiging nars sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas. Sa 1945 siya ay lumipat patungo Arellano University kung saan siya ay kumuha ng mga klase sa ilalim ni Teodoro M. Locsin. Siya ang naging tagapatnugot ng Arellano Literary Review. Ang edukasyon niya ay nahinto dahil sa sakit, kakulangan sa pera at pagkatapos ang kasal at limang anak. Ang ilan sa mga maikling kuwento niya ay nailimbag sa ilalim ng pangalan na Patricia S. Torres. Noong 1949 ay ikinasal niya si Juan Capiendo Tuvera, isang kaibigan at manunulat , kung saan siya’y nag
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Kerima Polotan Tuvera(born in Jolo, Sulu on December 16, 1925) is a Filipina authoress. MANILA, Philippines — “She doesn’t pull her punches and does not mince words. She’s not worried about making enemies.” Writer Susan Lara said her former publisher in the martial law-era magazine Focus Philippines was as straightforward in life as she was in her writing. Renowned fictionist Kerima Polotan-Tuvera was, in all her 85 years, also an essayist, journalist, teacher, wife, mother of 10, and grandmother of 19. For friends and family, though, her greatest achievement was fulfilling all these roles with great fervor. Writers celebrate the life of the literary icon who died of a lingering illness on August 19, Friday. Tuvera was a prolific author said to have an honest and sharp voice. She is known for works like the award-winning novel, “The Hand of the Enemy,”and short stories like “The Virgin,” “The Trap,” and “The Sounds of Sunday,” which earned her Palancas. “The number of books that she has written doesn’t really matter because all of them contain stories and essays of compelling beauty and profound wisdom,” said fellow Palanca award-winning writer and
Early life
She was christened as Putli Kerima. (Putli means princess)
Her father was an army colonel, and her mother taught home economics. Due to her father’s frequent transfers in assignment, she lived in various places and studied in the public schools of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Laguna, Nueva Ecija and Rizal.
She graduated from the Far Eastern University Girls’ High School. In 1944 she enrolled in the University of the Philippines School of Nursing. In 1945 she shifted to Arellano University where she attended the writing classes of Teodoro M. Locsin and edited the first number 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 1949, she had married Juan Capiendo Tuvera, a childhood friend and fellow writer, with whom s •
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