Virginia R. Moreno

Virginia R. Moreno (born 1925) is a Filipino writer. She was born in the Tondo neighbourhood of Manila and studied at the University of the Philippines, where she was editor of the campus newspaper, and at the Kansas Institute of International Education. Her first collection of poems Batik Maker and Other Poems was published in 1972; it received the Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. Her play Straw Patriot (1956) was translated into Filipino by Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez in 1967 as Bayaning huwad. In 1969, she won the National Historical Playwriting Contest for her play The Onyx Wolf, also known as La Loba Negra and Itim Asu. Also in 1969, she studied at the British Film Institute in London under a British Council grant. In 1973, she was co-director of the documentary The Imaginative Comm

Virginia R. Moreno

Virginia R. Moreno (born 1925) is a Filipino writer. She was born in the Tondo neighbourhood of Manila and studied at the University of the Philippines, where she was editor of the campus newspaper, and at the Kansas Institute of International Education. Her first collection of poems Batik Maker and Other Poems was published in 1972; it received the Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. Her play Straw Patriot (1956) was translated into Filipino by Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez in 1967 as Bayaning huwad. In 1969, she won the National Historical Playwriting Contest for her play The Onyx Wolf, also known as La Loba Negra and Itim Asu. Also in 1969, she studied at the British Film Institute in London under a British Council grant. In 1973, she was co-director of the documentary The Imaginative Comm