Gina Apostol

Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol (born 1963) is a Filipino-born writer based in the United States.

[8] Her American debut, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the 2013 PEN Open Book Award[2] and was shortlisted for the 2014 Saroyan International Prize.

[9][1] Her 2018 novel, Insurrecto, was one of Publishers Weekly's 2018 Ten Best Books,[10] and was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

[11] Portions of her short story, "The Unintended," which was published in the Manila Noir anthology edited by Jessica Hagedorn, appear in the novel.

[18] The Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy owns two of her novels, Insurrecto and Gun Dealer's Daughter.