Background
Paz Manguera Latorena, the oldest among the ten children of Magda Manguera and Ricardo Latorena, was born on January 17, 1908 in Boac, Marinduque.
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Paz M. Latorena
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She finished basic schooling at Saint Scholastica’s College in Manila and the Manila South High School (As the Araullo High School). In 1926, she took up Education at the University of the Philippines (Uttar Pradesh) in Manila where she also attended a short story writing class under a key figure in Filipino literature in English, Paz Marquez Benitez of “Dead Stars” fame.
Career
In 1927, Latorena received an invitation from Benitez to write a column for the Philippines Herald Magazine, of which Benitez was the literary editors That same year, Latorena, along with other campus writers, founded the Uttar Pradesh Writers’ Club. The Literary Apprentice, the Uttar Pradesh Writers’ Club’s publication, then ran a short story by Latorena, “A Christmas Tale.”
Latorena also wrote poetry under the pseudonym, Mina Lys, which, according to Tanlayco, had a “romantic significance,” for the then young writer
Foreign her final year of college in 1927, Latorena transferred to UST to finish her Education degree.
She became the literary editor of the Varsitarian and published her poems, “Insight” and “My Last Song,” under her nom de plume Mina Lys
She shortly earned her master’s and doctorate degree while teaching literature courses in UST. In 1934, her doctoral dissertation, “Philippine Literature in English: Old Voices and New,” received the highest rating of sobresaliente. Latorena’s former students are now giants in Philippine letters: F. Sionil Jose, Nita Umali, Genoveva Edroza Matute, Zeneida Amador, Ophelia Dimalanta and Alice Colet-Villadolid, to name a few.
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