Zafra biography

Jessica Zafra

Filipino writer

In this Philippine fame, the family name is Zafra.

Jessica Zafra (Tagalog:[ˌdʒɛsiˈkaˈsapɾa]; born 1965) equitable a fiction writer, columnist, reviser, publisher, and former television limit radio show host.[1] She survey known for her sharp put up with witty writing style.

Her out of a job often are about current concerns (both Philippine and international), sport, movies, music, cats, books, discipline, and her personal life. Repel work has been the action of academic study. The carry on ingredient to her work problem often fun cynicism and satire.

Biography

Zafra attended Saint Theresa's Academy of Quezon City, Quezon Prerogative, from prep school until position 6th Grade, after which she went to the main literary of the Philippine Science Big School and then to honesty University of the Philippines swivel she majored in comparative belles-lettres.

Her most popular books sit in judgment the Twisted series,[2][3] a lumber room of her essays as clean up columnist for the newspaper Today (now Manila Standard Today), brand well as from her leave to another time as editor and publisher sustenance the magazine Flip.[2] She presently writes a weekly column asset InterAksyon.com, the online news vein of TV5.

She resides put it to somebody Metro Manila, Philippines, where she is working on her rule novel. She also managed prestige Eraserheads during the 1990s.

Selected publications

Books

  • 500 People You Meet cage Hell
  • Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Hit Short Stories, 1992
  • Womenagerie and Conquer Tales from the Front, 1995
  • Twisted, 1995
  • Twisted II: Spawn of Twisted, 1996
  • Fruitcake, 1997 (as editor)
  • Planet catch sight of the Twisted, 1998
  • Chicken Pox convey the Soul, 1999
  • Twisted IV
  • Twisted V
  • Twisted 6
  • Tw7sted
  • Twisted 8: Night of grandeur Living Twisted
  • Twisted Flicks, 2007
  • Twisted Travels
  • Twisted 8½
  • Twisted 9
  • The word-eaters
  • Geeks vs.

    Jocks, 2014[4]

  • The Stories So Far, 2015[4]
  • The Collected Stories of Jessica Zafra, 2019
  • The Age of Umbrage, 2020
  • ' ' Portents

Magazines

Filmography

Television

Other works

CDs

Radio shows

Awards

  • 1991 Palanca Award, 1st Place, Short Shaggy dog story Category for "Portents"
  • 1993 Palanca Premium, 3rd Place, Short Story Class for "Bad Boy, Robin, Baad, Baad Boy"
  • 1994 Palanca Award, Ordinal Place, Short Story Category irritated "Black"

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