The Workshop Founders
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On Edilberto K. Tiempo
Edilberto K. Tiempo taught fiction and literary criticism for four years in two American schools, was asked to stay permanently, but opted to return to Silliman University where he has taught literary criticism and creative writing for a third of a century. He founded the National Writers Workshop in 1962, the first in Asia, which has been in operation since then. At Silliman he has been department chair, graduate school dean, vice president for academic affairs, and writer-in-residence.
For his M.F.A. thesis at the University of Iowa where he was a writing fellow at the Writers Workshop for four years and concurrently a Rockefeller fellow in his fourth year, he submitted a novel, Cry Salughter, which had four printings by Avon in New York, a hardbound edition in London, and six European translations.
As a Guggenheim writing fellow he submitted a collection of short stories, A Stream at Dalton Pass And Other Stories, for his Ph.D. at the University of Denver; this collection won a prize at the Golden Anniversary Literary Contest of the University of the Philippines at the same time that his second novel, More Than Conquerors, won the first prize for the novel.
He has published five other novels: Farah; Cracked Mirror, which won the grand prize during the fifteenth anniversary of the Cultural Center of the Philippines; The Standard Bearer, Palanca award winner; and To Be Free, reprinted more times than any other Philippine novel in English.
Doc Ed has four other short story collections: Finalities, which won the National Book Award for 1983; A Rainbow for Rima; Snake Twin and Other Stories, written by the author as a National Fellow in Fiction in 1990, upon appointment by the U.P. Creative Writing Center; and The Paraplegics, a Novelette, and Five Short Stories.
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