Carolina Flores-Trinidad or Lina Flor (October 6, 1914 – February 11, 1976) was a writer from the Philippines. Writer of the hit radio drama Gulong ng Palad, she was also a "society columnist, bilingual fictionist, scriptwriter, biographer and lyricist, as well as a cartoonist, an actress, even a journalism teacher." Career Just barely out of her teens, Flor was signed up as a radio performer for KZIB, a small radio station where she hosted a morning program. Eventually, she transferred to KZRM, then the biggest radio station, dominated by American executives and American talents. In the middle of her success as a radio talent, Flor embarked on new career when was asked to edit a radio column for the Graphic. She later became a regular columnist for the Graphic when the publicity girl of Radio Manila (an American) resigned. During this time, she also started writing short stories in English. In 1934, Flor published her first short story titled, “Big Sister.” The story was said to have been "influenced by a painting of a young girl preening before a mirror. “Big Sister” and eventually “Family Album” and “Grandmother Muses” landed in Jose Garcia Villa's annual Honor Roll." With the Japanese occupation and eventually, the Second World War, the trend of writing shifted from English to Tagalog as to deepen the country’s sense of nationalism. To write was no longer done to satisfy the Muse; to write was to take a specific political position. By shifting from English to Tagalog, the writers in English, perhaps unconsciously realized how inextricably related language was to the exploration of the world they lived in. Thus, Flor decided to hone her writing in Tagalog and appeared to have reached the height of her power and creativity as a writer and performer. She wrote several short stories in Tagalog for Sinag-tala, Ilang-Ilang, Magasin ng Pagsilang and Daigdig. Aside from these, she started writing novel serials for Sinag-tala and Taliba, had regular weekly columns in Sinag-tala and a movie column for Ilang-Ilang. During this time, Flor began writing radio soap operas. In 1949, Flor’s Gulong ng Palad aired over DZRH, and changed the face of radio programming. Gulong ng Palad is considered to be the most popular daytime series in radio history. In the following years, Flor was handling multi-media careers: as a feature writer (with famous personalities as her favorite topic), as an autobiographical essayist (concentrating