Rafael Zulueta da Costa (born 1915-1990 [1]) was a Filipino poet. He used the name R. Zulueta da Costa as a writer, and Rafael Zulueta as a businessman. [2]
He was a graduate of De La Salle College (now University) where he specialized in business administration. He began writing poems in Spanish and later he also wrote in English. [3] His most famous work is Like the Molave and Other Poems, which won the Commonwealth Literary Award for Poetry in 1940. [4]