High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Women of Tammuz is a 2004 prize-winning novel written by Filipino author Azucena Grajo-Uranza It won two Philippine National Book Awards in 2004, namely the Juan C. Laya Award for being the Best Novel in a Philippine Language, and the Juan C. Laya Award for being the Best Novel in a Foreign Language. After Bamboo in the Wind, the Women of Tammuz is chronologically the third in Uranza`s saga and is followed by the Feast of the Innocents.