Gardeopatra Gador Quijano was a Filipino Visayan dentist, teacher, writer, and fiction author known for her novel, Lourdes, which is regarded as the first feminist novel written in the Cebuano language.
11 Facts About Gardeopatra Quijano
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Gardeopatra Quijano is considered the first Cebuana feminist fiction writer and was awarded the Gawad CCP para sa Sining in 1993.
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Gardeopatra Quijano was the eldest daughter of the nine children of Aglipayan bishop and Cebuano writer Juan P Quijano and Segundina Gador and attended schools in Cebu, Lanao, Manila, and Oroquieta in Misamis Occidental.
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Former Misamis Occidental governor Gedeon Gardeopatra Quijano was her older brother.
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Gardeopatra Quijano became a college teacher and a dentist, whereby people call her the nickname "Doktor or Dok Garding".
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Gardeopatra Quijano settled in Oroquieta for most of her life and remained unmarried.
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Gardeopatra Quijano was the first feminist fictionist in Cebuano literature and one of the early pre-war short story writers.
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Gardeopatra Quijano had written two novels and over 150 stories and wrote for periodicals The Freeman, Nasod, Babaye and Bag-ong Kusog and other publications before and after World War II.
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Gardeopatra Quijano won literary prizes for the short stories Maayong Ngalan and Ang Asawa nga Dala sa Akong Uyoan.
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Gardeopatra Quijano led the Misamis chapter of the Cebuano writers group LUDABI, serving as its president from the late 1960s to 1970s, and initiated the first literary workshops in that part of the country, giving lectures on writing fiction and non-fiction.
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Gardeopatra Quijano was awarded the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining: Panitikang Rehiyunal from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1993.