Edilberto K. Tiempo

Edilberto Kaindong Tiempo[1] (1913[2] – September 1996[3]), also known as E. K. Tiempo, was a Filipino writer and professor. 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"[4] at that university.

Career

During his tenure there, he was department chair (1950-69),[4] 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.

As a Guggenheim writing fellow in 1955,[5] he submitted a collection of short stories, A Stream at Dalton Pass and Other Stories, for his Ph.D. in English at the University of Denver. 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 1962;[6] their experience there inspired them to found the Silliman National Writers Workshop, the first in Asia, which has been in operation since then.[7]

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 1960s.[8]

Works

His novel, Cry Slaughter, published in 1957 was a revised version of his Watch in the Night novel published four years earlier in the Philippines.[9] Cry Slaughter had four printings by Avon in New York, a hardbound edition in London, and six European translations.[8]

Awards
  • Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Prize
  • Palanca Awards
  • U.P. Golden Anniversary Literary Contest
  • National Book Award

References
  1. Some references refer to him as "Edilberto Kaindoy Tiempo".
  2. Resource Information Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "panitikan.com.ph :: Philippine Literature Portal". Archived from the original on 2007-02-18. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
  4. Untitled Document Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
  5. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation T Fellows Page Archived March 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  6. UI Nonfiction Writing Students To Travel To Philippines For Workshop - University News Service - The University of Iowa Archived 2010-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
  7. The 41st National Writers Workshop
  8. "Edilberto K. Tiempo" Archived 2010-12-13 at the Wayback Machine. Panitikan.com.ph. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
  9. http://www.mainlib.upd.edu.ph/details.asp?code=208729%5B%5D
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