TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Portrait of Remedios Lopez Cuenco by Cecilia Brainard

Friday, August 7, 2020

Portrait of Remedios Lopez Cuenco by Cecilia Brainard

Portrait by Cecilia Brainard - Remedios Lopez Cuenco

I made this portrait using the photo of my great-grandmother Remedios Lopez Cuenco as reference. Remedios was the mother of my grandfather (Mariano Jesus Cuenco, who was the father of my mother Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra.

Remedios was a force and noted in Philippine history as the first woman publisher. She had inspired me to write my third novel, The Newspaper Widow. Information here:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2017/12/from-cebu-to-ubec-inspiration-for.html

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. 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 lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.