Gilda Cordero Fernando at the 2014 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature at the Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City on Sept. 1, 2014. (Photo by Alvin I. Dacanay)
Gilda Cordero Fernando, the idiosyncratic author, publisher and cultural icon best known for her wartime-set short stories and celebrated as one of the country’s finest writers, died on Thursday at the age of 90.