Filipino writers paid tribute to multi-awarded Tagalog fictionist, journalist, radio scriptwriter and editor Liwayway A. Arceo in a necrological service held last Dec. 6, 7:30p.m. at the Loyola Memorial Chapel in Guadalupe, Makati City. Arceo, 75, passed away last Friday, Dec. 3, after a brief confinement due to an illness at the Medical Center Manila. She is survived by her four children - Florante, Celia, Ibarra, and Jayrizal. Her husband, poet Manuel Principe Bautista, died in 1996. Arceo's most recent award was given this year by the National Centennial Commission on Women Sector for her prioneering and exemplary contributions in the field of literature. Other major awards include the Gawad CCP for Literature given by the Cultutal Center of the Philippines in 1993, the Doctorate on Humane Letters, honoris causa, conferred by the University of the Philippines in 1991, the Catholic Publishers in 1990, the Catholic Author Award by the Asian Catholic Publishers in 1990, and the Gawad Balagtas Life Achievement Award for Fiction, by the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas in 1998. Arceo is the author of highly praised novels such as Canal de la Reina and Titser and collections of short stories such as Ina, Maybahay, Anak at iba pa, Mga Maria, Mga Eva and Ang Mag-anak na Cruz.
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