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Farewell to Marra PL. Lanot, Nick Joaquin’s ‘babaylan in a kimono and Levi’s’
Marra PL. Lanot with National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin.—CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
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August 19, 2026August 19, 2026In Memoriam

Farewell to Marra PL. Lanot, Nick Joaquin’s ‘babaylan in a kimono and Levi’s’

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The writer Marra PL. Lanot, recently departed, and her friend, National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin, long passed, can be said to have belonged to a mutual admiration society in which they admitted their imperfections, with each staunchly defending the other’s humanity before the world.  Such was his esteem for her that he wrote the...