Edilberto Kaindong TiempoSome references refer to him as "Edilberto Kaindoy Tiempo". (August 5, 1913Resource Information – September 19, 1996) 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"Untitled Document at that university.
Career During his tenure there, he was department chair (1950 to 1969), graduate school dean, vice-president for academic affairs, and writer-in-residence. Tiempo was also a part-time teacher at St. Paul University Dumaguete, where he taught fine arts, drama, and postgraduate courses.
As a Guggenheim writing fellow in 1955,John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation T Fellows Page 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;UI Nonfiction Writing Students To Travel To Philippines For Workshop – University News Service – The University of Iowa 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 1960s."Edilberto K. Tiempo" . Panitikan.com.ph. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
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.http://www.mainlib.upd.edu.ph/details.asp?code=208729 Cry Slaughter had four printings by Avon in New York, a hardbound edition in London, and six European translations.
Novels Watch in the Night (1953) Cry Slaughter! (1957) To Be Free (1972, ) More Than Conquerors (1982, ) Cracked Mirror (1984, ) The Standard Bearer (1985, ) Farah (2001, )
Poetry Inside Job
Collections Stream at Dalton Pass and Other Stories (1970) Finality, a novelette and five short stories (1982) Rainbow for Rima (1988, ) Snake Twin and Other Stories (1992, ) The Paraplegics And Five Short Stories (1995, ) Literary Criticism In The Philippines And Other Essays (1995, )
Awards
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Prize Palanca Awards U.P. Golden Anniversary Literary Contest National Book Award
References
External links Photograph of Edilberto K. Tiempo Collection from the Miriam College Library Collection from the Library of the University of the Philippines, Diliman "The Witch" , one of Tiempo's short stories, from a Northern Illinois University website