Elizabeth Medina

Elizabeth Medina (born 1954) is a Filipina writer, historian, and translator based in Chile. She was born and raised in Metro Manila (Quezon City and Makati City). In 1973, she emigrated with her family to the United States and resided in San Francisco, California and in Washington, D.C. from 1973-78 and 1979-82, respectively.
Ms. Medina has attended Assumption College, George Washington University, and the Universidad Católica de Chile. After her sojourn in the US, she married a Chilean national and moved to Santiago, Chile in 1983, where she currently resides and works as a translator, interpreter and energy therapist.
Since 1991 she has dedicated herself to the study of Latin American and Philippine history, discovering her Filipino identity in the process. She paradoxically learned this from her studies about Chile’s colonial history and after a trip to the Ilocos province in the Philippines back in 1991 to research her grandfather’s death (Governor Emilio Medina, executed by guerillas in 1945). It was then that she knew she had to write for Filipinos regarding the lost memory of their Hispanic-Filipino history and culture, through an awareness and understanding of the Philippines' related past to Latin America. After visiting Cuba in 2006, Ms. Medina realized that Cuban history is particularly important for a deeper understanding of Philippine history.
Ms. Medina is now a dual Filipino and Chilean citizen and is working on short stories on Hispanic Philippines.
Notable Works
* Rizal According to Retana 1998
* Sampaguitas in the Andes 2006
* Gringa in Latinoland 2010
* Essay on Salvador "El Chicho" Allende, President of Chile (1991)
* Rizal According to Retana, a complete annotated translation of W.E. Retana's 1907 biography of Dr. José Rizal 2010

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