author
Pura Medrano
A little-known early Filipino writer remembered for a Tagalog love story that captures the sweetness of youth and the pull of growing up. Her surviving work still feels warm and intimate, with two young voices telling a courtship shaped by memory, letters, and longing.
1 Audiobook
Nang Bata Pa Kami
by Pura Medrano
About the author
Pura L. Medrano is a Filipino author known for Nang Bata Pa Kami, a Tagalog work published in Manila in 1913. Reliable biographical details about her life are scarce, but library and public-domain records confirm both the title and its early 20th-century publication.
The story has endured through later digitization and audiobook circulation, which helped keep her name in view even as much of her personal history remains hard to trace. It is often described as a tale of secret courtship told through the perspectives of two lovers, mixing youthful nostalgia with the emotional complications of growing up.
Because so little verified background information is readily available, Medrano is best introduced through the work itself: a voice from early Philippine literature whose surviving writing offers a gentle, personal glimpse of romance and memory in Tagalog.