The Woman Who Had Two Navels

The Woman Who Had Two Navels is a 1961 novel by Nick Joaquín, a National Artist for Literature and leading English-language writer from the Philippines. It is considered a classic in Philippine literature. It was the recipient of the first Harry Stonehill Award.

It tells the story of an elite Filipina who is hallucinating, and is preoccupied with the notion that she has two navels or belly buttons in order to be treated as an extraordinary person.

Published by Solidaridad Publishing House in 1972

226 pages / Paperback