Achievements
- 1940: A collection of her early short stories, “Dear Esmeralda,” won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award.
- 1961-1962: Four of her one-act plays won all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play Writing Contest: “Losers Keepers” (first prize), “Strangers” (second prize), “Rice” (third prize), and “Beggar” (fourth prize).
- 1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for “With Patches of Many Hues.”
- 1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress".
- 1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center.
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