Carmen Pedrosa

Carmen Navarro Pedrosa (July 17, 1941 – June 8, 2022) was a Filipino journalist and author, best known for a series of biographical books on former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos and for her role in the overseas opposition to the Marcos dictatorship during her years of exile in London. For more than three decades she wrote the weekly opinion column "From a Distance" for The Philippine Star, and in her later career she was a prominent advocate for constitutional reform in the Philippines.

Early life and education

Pedrosa was born on July 17, 1941.

From 1987 to 2021 she wrote the weekly column "From a Distance" for The Philippine Star, one of the country's longest-running newspaper opinion columns. Writing frequently from the vantage point of her years abroad, she commented on Philippine politics, governance, and constitutional questions. The book was suppressed after the declaration of Martial Law in 1972; despite the ban, copies continued to circulate clandestinely. By her own account it sold more than 300,000 copies and was translated into French, Japanese, and Portuguese before going out of print.

Pedrosa died on June 8, 2022, in Muntinlupa, at the age of 80.