Edilberto tiempo biography

He and his wife, Edith L. Tiempo, are credited by Silliman University with establishing "a tradition in excellence in creative writing and the teaching of literacy craft which continues to this day" at that university. During his tenure there, he was department chair to , graduate school dean, vice-president for academic affairs, and writer-in-residence.

Tiempo was also a part-time professor in St. Paul University Dumaguete, teaching fine arts, drama, and graduate school.

National artist for literature in luzon

This collection won a prize at the same time that his second novel, More Than Conquerors , won the first prize for the novel. Tiempo and his wife studied with Paul Engle in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, graduating in ; their experience there inspired them to found the Silliman National Writers Workshop, the first in Asia, which has been in operation since then.

Tiempo was also a Rockefeller fellow. In addition to his career at Silliman, Tiempo taught fiction and literary criticism for four years in two American schools during the s. His novel, Cry Slaughter , published in was a revised version of his Watch in the Night novel published four years earlier in the Philippines. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edilberto K.