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About the founders Fiction-writer and literary critic EDILBERTO K. TIEMPO was born in 1913. He obtained his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver. In addition to having been a Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellow, Dr. Tiempo, alongside wife Edith, spent around four years studying literature and creative writing in the Iowa Writers Workshop. Upon returning to the Philippines in 1962, the Tiempos founded the Silliman National Writers Workshop after the objectives of the Iowa writers’ clinic. In the 1960s, he taught in two American schools, but it was Silliman University which Tiempo chose as his base, serving as department chair, graduate school dean, vice-president for academic affairs, and writer-in-residence. He reaped numerous honors for his writing, among them the Cultural Center of the Philippines Prize, Palanca Awards, the National Book Award, and a prize in the U.P. Golden Anniversary Literary Contest. He authored over a dozen books in his lifetime. Titles include the collections A Stream at Dalton Pass and Other Stories (1970), Snake Twin and Other Stories (1992) and Literary Criticism in the Philippines and Other Essays (1995); as well as the novels Cry Slaughter (1957), which had four New York printings and six European translations, To Be Free (1972), the awardwinning More Than Conquerors (1982), and Cracked Mirror (1984). Tiempo died in September of 1996, but his final novel, Farah, saw print in 2001. (Adapted from the Panitikan website)
When the first Filipino President of Silliman University, Dr. Leopoldo T. Ruiz, gave his inaugural address at our commencement on 6 April 1953, he defined the true university as one where, among others, there is “constant enlargement of the horizons of man’s knowledge...” Until today, successive administrations of the University have been measured against such yardstick as defined by Dr. Ruiz, and as one of the innovative academic programs introduced in the university in the summer of 1962, this National Writers Workshop is then one of those pillars of the true university. Indeed, whether in creative, research, or academic writing, a university cannot be one without a solid, stable program in writing. At Silliman University, where the first three chairmen of the English Department—Dr. Metta Jacobs Silliman, Dr. Edilberto K. Tiempo, and Dr. Edith L. Tiempo—shaped her destiny, the National Writers Workshop was a natural progression that brought the University into international prominence. And as the brainchild of husband-and-wife team, Dr. Ed and Dr. Edith Tiempo, another natural progression is their daughter taking over—Dr. Rowena Tiempo- Torrevillas, the Writers Workshop’s current Director-in-Residence. For the past three weeks, we welcomed to this gathering of minds the creative writers who are striving to perfect their craft in spite of a rigorous journey in the process of discovering their strengths and weaknesses. This is a program so structured to develop one’s critical insights to expand one’s knowledge—the true horizon of the true university. For wasn’t it the American management guru, Peter Drucker, who gave us the From the Acting President
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