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Gilda Cordero Fernando, renowned writer and publisher, dies at 90

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<p>MANILA -- Renowned writer and publisher Gilda Cordero Fernando passed away on Thursday, according to her son.</p><p>She was 90. </p><p>&quot;We will miss her dearly and love her always,&quot; her son, Mol Fernando, said in a Facebook post.</p><p>Posting a link to Fernando&#x27;s column in Philippine Daily Inquirer on her own wake, Mol added: &quot;Inimitably, Lola Mad held her own wake earlier thus, there will be no need for funeral services.&quot;</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/mol.fernando/posts/10223771232498039" data-width="auto"> </div><p>No other details were provided.</p><p>A multi-awarded writer, Fernando is known for the short story collections &quot;The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker&quot;(1962) and &quot;A Wilderness of Sweets&quot; (1973).</p><p>In 1978, she launched GCF Books which published landmark books on Philippine cultural history such as &quot;Streets of Manila&quot; (1977), &quot;Turn of the Century&quot; (1978), &quot;Philippine Ancestral Houses&quot; (1980), &quot;Being Filipino&quot; (1981), &quot;The History of the Burgis&quot; (1987), &quot;Folk Architecture&quot; (1989), and &quot;The Soul Book&quot; (1991).</p><p>In 1994, Fernando received a Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining (Publikasyon at Panitikan) award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines.</p>

<p>Renowned writer and publisher Gilda Cordero Fernando passed away on Thursday, according to her son. </p>

Renowned writer and publisher Gilda Cordero Fernando passed away on Thursday, according to her son.