Edith Tiempo
Poet, fiction writer, teacher, literary critic (1919-2011)
Edith Cutaran Lopez-Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011) was a Filipino poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic in the English language. She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.
Biography
Tiempo was born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Halaman" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.
Tiempo died on August 21, 2011.
Works
Novels
A Blade of Fern (1978)
His Native Coast (1979)
The Alien Corn (1992)
One, Tilting Leaves (1995)
The Builder (2004)
The Jumong (2006)
Short story collections
Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)
Poetry collections
The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)
The Charmer's Box and Other Poet (1993)
Marginal Annotations and Other Poems
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