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The Wordsmith

A woman of substance and as a novelist of great calibre are just a few of the words that have been used to describe Gina Apostol, the award-winning author of Insurrecto― a novel that tackles the famed Balangiga Massacre as the basis for two conflicting screenplays written by an American filmmaker and her Filipino translator.

was lauded by the as a list of the 10 best books of 2018, as well as online news site BuzzFeed’s 2018 list of the top 10 works of fiction.

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