TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Article Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra Cebu Carnival Queen

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Article Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra Cebu Carnival Queen

I came across this article and magazine cover (Sunstar Weekend 9/1/1996) featuring my mother, Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra. She was Cebu's 1931 Carnival Queen.

Please note I have an updated site - click below:
https://ceciliabrainard.com/concepcion-cuenco-manguerra-1932-cebu-carnival-queen-article/

tags: #Cebu #Philippines #Pinay #ceciliabrainard #ConcepcionCuenco #mother

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Cebu Politics Philippines: Cebu's Cuencoi Family in 1932

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author of 10 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Vigan and Other Stories, and Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose. She edited four books, co-edited six books, and co-authored a novel, Angelica's Daughters. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has received several travel grants from the USIS. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She teaches creative writing at the Writers Program at UCLA-Extension.