13 Facts About Lualhati Bautista

Lualhati Torres Bautista was a Filipina writer, liberal activist, and political critic.

Lualhati Bautista graduated from Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in 1958, and from Florentino Torres High School in 1962.

Lualhati Bautista was a journalism student at the Lyceum of the Philippines, but dropped out because she had always wanted to be a writer and schoolwork was taking too much time.

In 2015, Lualhati Bautista launched the book Sixty in the City, about the life of friends Guia, Roda and Menang, who are in their mid-60s and realize that there's a good life in being just a wife, mother and homemaker.

Lualhati Bautista became a national fellow for fiction of the University of the Philippines Diliman Creative Writing Center in 1986.

Lualhati Bautista served as vice-president of the Screenwriters Guild of the Philippines and as chair of the Kapisanan ng mga Manunulat ng Nobelang Popular.

Lualhati Bautista was the only Filipino included in a book on foremost international women writers published in Japan in 1991.

Lualhati Bautista was honored by the Ateneo Library of Women's Writings on March 10,2004, during the 8th Annual Lecture on Vernacular Literature by Women.

Excerpts of Lualhati Bautista's novels have been anthologized in Tulikarpanen, a book of short stories written by Filipino women published in Finland by The Finnish-Philippine Society, a non-governmental organization founded in 1988.

On January 5,2022, Lualhati Bautista revealed in a Facebook post an offer by Penguin Classics, an imprint of international book publisher Penguin Books, to publish Dekada '70 in English.

News of the offer led to Lualhati Bautista being congratulated by fellow writers and literary organizations in the Philippines, including the National Book Development Board, screenwriter Jerry Gracio, poet Merlie Alunan, and Ateneo de Manila University Press director Karina Bolasco.

Lualhati Bautista later said that she is not proceeding with the case as Badong has sent her a private apology, which Lualhati Bautista posted.

Lualhati Bautista died at her home on February 12,2023, at the age of 77.