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Edith L. Tiempo: Philippine Literary Icon

Edith L. Tiempo was a Filipino writer, poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic. She was born in 1919 in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. Tiempo wrote intricate poems exploring significant experiences. As a fiction writer, her language was descriptive but unburdened by details. She co-founded the influential Silliman National Writers Workshop with her husband. Tiempo received numerous honors including the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

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Edith L. Tiempo: Philippine Literary Icon

Edith L. Tiempo was a Filipino writer, poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic. She was born in 1919 in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. Tiempo wrote intricate poems exploring significant experiences. As a fiction writer, her language was descriptive but unburdened by details. She co-founded the influential Silliman National Writers Workshop with her husband. Tiempo received numerous honors including the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

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Edith L.

Tiempo (April 22, 1919 August 21, 2011),[1] poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic
was a Filipino writer in the English language.

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,"Lament for the Littlest
Fellow" 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.

She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

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1 Works

o 1.1 Novels

o 1.2 Short stories

o 1.3 Poetry

2 Honors and awards

3 References

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Novels[edit]

A Blade of Fern (1978)

His Native Coast (1979)

One, Tilting Leaves

The Alien Corn (1992)

The Builder (2004)

The Jumong (2006)


Short stories[edit]

Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)


Poetry[edit]

The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)

The Charmer's Box and Other Poet (1993)

Marginal Annotations and Other Poems

Inside Job

In the beginning

Honors and awards[edit]


National Artist Award for Literature (1999)

Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature

Cultural Center of the Philippines (1979, First Prize in Novel)

Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (1988)

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