CARMEN GUERRERO-NAKPIL, whose distinguished, decades-spanning work in journalism and creative nonfiction earned her widespread acclaim as one of the Philippines’ best essayists, died on Monday at the age of 96.

In a text message to historian and Manila Times columnist Michael Charleston “Xiao” Chua that he shared on Facebook, Guerrero-Nakpil’s eldest child, writer and former Tourism Secretary Gemma Cruz Araneta, said her mother died at 1:30 a.m.

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