14 Facts About Ninotchka Rosca

Ninotchka Rosca was born on December 17,1946, in the Philippines and is a Filipina feminist, author, journalist, and human rights activist.

Ninotchka Rosca was a recipient of the American Book Award in 1993 for her novel Twice Blessed.

Ninotchka Rosca is active in AF3IRM [1], the Mariposa Center for Change, Sisterhood is Global and the initiating committee of the Mariposa Alliance, a multi-racial, multi-ethnic women's activist center for understanding the intersectionality of class, race and gender oppression, toward a more comprehensive practice of women's liberation.

Ninotchka Rosca received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at the University of the Philippines, and became a journalist working for various Philippine publications after she graduated.

Ninotchka Rosca was taking up Asian Studies for her graduate studies at the time she had to leave the Philippines because of the Marcos Dictatorship.

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Ninotchka Rosca was one of many Philippine journalists who became political prisoners under the dictatorial government of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.

Ninotchka Rosca was detained for six months, and was interrogated several times before her release.

When she received a tip that she was about to be arrested a second time, she sought help from a cultural attache at the US Embassy, who helped Ninotchka Rosca get out of the Philippines by getting her into an international writers program in the United States.

Ninotchka Rosca has worked with Amnesty International and the PEN American Center.

Ninotchka Rosca was a founder and the first national chair of the GABNet, the largest and only US-Philippines women's solidarity mass organization, which has evolved into AF3IRM.

Ninotchka Rosca is the international spokesperson of GABNet's Purple Rose Campaign against the trafficking of women, with an emphasis on Filipinas.

Ninotchka Rosca was at the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women which took place in Beijing, China, and at the UN's World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria.

Ninotchka Rosca is particularly concerned with the origins of women's oppression and the interface between class, race, and gender exploitation so that women can move toward greater theory building and practice of a comprehensive genuine women's liberation.

Ninotchka Rosca's second best-selling English language novel Twice Blessed won her the 1993 American Book Award for excellence in literature.