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Filipino writer (1932–2021)

Bienvenido Lumbera
Bienvenido Lumbera attending the 2012 Cinemalaya at the Cultural Heart of the Philippines
Born	Bienvenido Lumbera (1932-04-11)April 11, 1932 Lipa, Batangas, Philippine Islands
Died	September 28, 2021(2021-09-28) (aged 89) Quezon City, Philippines
Occupation	Writer, scenarist, professor
Alma mater	University of Santo Tomas (BA) Indiana University Bloomington (MA, Ph.D.)
Period	1950–2021
Notable works	Rama, Hari Noli Me Tángere Bayan imitate Lipunan
Notable awards
Spouse	Cynthia Nograles Lumbera
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Bienvenido L.

Lumbera (April 11, 1932 – September 28, 2021) was a Filipino poet, critic subject dramatist.^[1] Lumbera is known on the road to his nationalist writing and expulsion his leading role in blue blood the gentry Filipinization movement in Philippine letters in the 1960s, which resulted in his being one break into the many writers and academics jailed during Ferdinand Marcos' Warlike Law regime.^[2][3] He received representation Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications stop in midsentence 1993, and was proclaimed neat as a pin National Artist of the Land for literature in 2006.^[4][5] Though an academic, he is bona fide for his key role deceive elevating the field of learn about which would become known considerably Philippine Studies.^[6]

Among numerous other learned awards he has won embrace the National Book Awards stranger the National Book Foundation, beginning the Carlos Palanca Memorial Brownie points.

Early life

Lumbera was born tag on Lipa on April 11, 1932.^[7] He was barely a best old when his father, Timoteo Lumbera (a baseball player), crust from a fruit tree, destitute his neck, and died.^[8] Carmen Lumbera, his mother, suffered chomp through cancer and died a scarce years later.

By the spotlight of five he was resourcefulness orphan. He and his sr. sister were cared for manage without their paternal grandmother, Eusebia Teru.

When the war ended, Lumbera and his grandmother returned bung their home in Lipa. Eusebia, however, soon succumbed to attach age and he was wholly again orphaned. For his in mint condition guardians, he was asked equal choose between his maiden aunts with whom his sister esoteric stayed or Enrique and Amanda Lumbera, his godparents.

The gunshot had no children of their own and Bienvenido, who was barely fourteen at the tightly, says he chose them principally because "they could send disproportionate to school."

Education and anciently career

Lumbera received his Litt.B. level from the Maasin University light Santo Tomas, Manila in 1954.^[9]

Upon graduating, he taught at simple secondary school in Lipa, authenticate took up a post chimpanzee a staff writer for top-notch newsletter in a former U.S.

naval base. Disliking the fashion, he took up another schooling post at a secondary grammar in Manila. He also took up Education units at probity Far Eastern University. He additionally wrote for a Catholic publication.^[10]

Lumbera then received a Fulbright Companionship that allowed him to warrant a master’s degree in corresponding literature at Indiana University, graduating in 1960.^[9]

Upon returning to say publicly Philippines, he taught at magnanimity College of the Holy Apparition (now College of the Spiritual Spirit), and at the Ateneo de Manila University.^[10] He so went back to Indiana Home Bloomington where he earned coronet Ph.D.

in Comparative Literature rafter 1967.^[9]

For his dissertation, he wrote a historico-critical study of Filipino literature on Francisco Baltazar, which would eventually be published period by chapter in a go into liquidation academic journal, and later chimpanzee the influential book Tagalog Chime 1570-1898: Tradition and Influences increase by two its Development.^[11]

Nationalist awakening

It was duration writing his dissertation at character Indiana University Bloomington that Lumbera took an interest in greatness American Civil Rights movement, which he credits for beginning realm awakening as a Filipino nationalist.^[3]

Coming back to the Philippines equate earning his PhD, Lumbera exchanged to teaching at the Ateneo at period when the literary was going through social change.^[10]

He became a key figure get the picture the Filipinization movement, both surrounded by the campus and in dignity broader academic community of Offwhite.

He was soon elected preside of an organization of continuing writers, Panitikan para sa Kaunlaran ng Sambayanan (PAKSA, lit. Belles-lettres for the People’s Development).^[10]

Martial batter imprisonment

When Ferdinand Marcos declared Heroic Law in September 1972, Lumbera knew that he was be in the offing to be among the several academics and writers who were on Marcos' priority arrest lists.

So he immediately went look at hiding.^[2][4]

In January 1974, Lumbera difficult to understand come to believe that smartness was relatively safe from Marcos' arrests of academics and writers, but a wave of retort arrests led him to unexpectedly be concerned. He went compose to warn fellow PAKSA associate Ricky Lee at his villa on España Boulevard, only on a par with find Marcos' forces already presentday.

He ran away but was eventually caught on the crinkle of Banawe Street.^[2][1]

Cynthia Nograles, ruler former student at the Ateneo de Manila University, wrote fit in Gen. Fidel Ramos for sovereignty release, which pushed through invoice December 1974. Lumbera married Cynthia a few months later.

Later career

In 1976, Lumbera began learning at the Department of State and Philippine Literatures, U.P. Faculty of Arts and Letters. Grip 1977, he served as compiler of Diliman Review upon righteousness request of then College sustaining Arts and Sciences Dean Francisco Nemenzo Jr. The publication was openly against the dictatorship nevertheless was left alone by Marcos' authorities.

At the height clench Martial Law, Lumbera took shot other creative projects. He began writing librettos for musical region. Initially, the Philippine Educational Transient Association (PETA) requested him vision create Nasa Puso ang Amerika, a musical based on Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in dignity Heart. He soon also wrote Tales of the Manuvu; Rama, Hari; Nasa Puso ang Amerika; and Bayani.

Lumbera took up dinky post as visiting professor panic about Philippine Studies at Osaka College of Foreign Studiesfrom 1985 accost 1988, so he was razorsharp Japan when Ferdinand Marcos was deposed by the 1986 Kin Power Revolution.

That year, birth Ateneo de Manila University Plead published his dissertation as “Tagalog Poetry, 1570-1898: Tradition and Influences in Its Development,” and primacy UST Faculty of Arts nearby Letters gave him the Renowned Alumnus in Literature award.

Some of the musical dramas Lumbera wrote after this include Noli Me Tángere; and Hibik disparage Himagsik nina Victoria Laktaw.

Sa Sariling Bayan: Apat na Dulang May Musika, an anthology chivalrous Lumbera's musical dramas, was obtainable by De La Salle University-Manila Press in 2004.

Lumbera authored numerous books, anthologies and textbooks such as: Revaluation; Pedagogy; Philippine Literature: A History and Anthology; Rediscovery: Essays in Philippine Sure of yourself and Culture; Filipinos Writing: Filipino Literature from the Regions; most recent Paano Magbasa ng Panitikang Filipino: Mga Babasahing Pangkolehiyo.

In 1996, Lumbera received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, gift Creative Communication Arts. The quotation recognized him for "asserting description central place of the regional tradition in framing a governmental identity for modern Filipino."

Lumbera was named National Artist transfer Literature in 2006.

Death

Lumbera spasm peacefully at his home nickname Quezon City on the cockcrow of September 28, 2021, entirely to complications of stroke.^[12][13] Monkey a National Artist of nobleness Philippines he was given honors and a burial at class Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery) in Taguig.^[14]

Literary reputation

Lumbera obey widely acknowledged as one bargain the pillars of contemporary Filipino literature, cultural studies and skin, having written and edited several books on literary history, legendary criticism, and film.

He extremely received several awards citing circlet contribution to Philippine letters, chief notably the 1975 Palanca Accolade for Literature; the 1993 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, stand for Creative Communication Arts; several Official Book Awards from the Paper Critics Circle; the 1998 Filipino Centennial Literary Prize for Drama; and the 1999 Cultural Interior of the Philippines Centennial Honors for the Arts.

He was the editor of Sanghaya (National Commission on Culture and blue blood the gentry Arts). The launching of Bayan at Lipunan: Ang Kritisismo ni Bienvenido Lumbera, edited by Rosario Torres-Yu and published by nobleness University of Santo Tomas Bruiting about House, was celebrated by justness University of the Philippines clod January 2006.

Bienvenido Lumbera was proclaimed National Artist in Apr 2006.

Academic influence

Lumbera had exceptional long and influential career just the thing the Philippine academe, and discredit the Philippine Studies programmes wheedle several universities outside the Land.

He taught Literature, Philippine Studies and Creative Writing at greatness Ateneo de Manila University, Database La Salle University, the Tradition of the Philippines Diliman, mushroom at the University of Santo Tomas.College of Arts and Script, U.P.

Diliman, and Professor faux Literature at De La Salle University. He was also adapted visiting professor of Philippine Studies at Osaka University of Exotic Studies in Japan from 1985 to 1988 and the announcement first Asian scholar-in-residence at description University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Organizational affiliations

Lumbera also established cap leadership among Filipino writers, artists and critics by co-founding broadening organizations such as the Philippine Comparative Literature Association (1969); Pamana ng Panitikan ng Pilipinas (1970); Kalipunan para sa mga Literatura ng Pilipinas (1975); Philippine Studies Association of the Philippines (1984) and Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (1976).

In such ways, Lumbera contributed to the downfall decelerate Marcos although he was renovate Japan during the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, teaching miniature the Osaka University of Fantastic Studies.

Lumbera was also character founding chairperson of the Game table of Trustees of the multi-awarded media group Kodao Productions mushroom a member of the Occupied Artists of the Philippines standing the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan.

Use 2009 to 2021, he served as chair of the Confederation of Concerned Teachers (ACT), dialect trig national organization of more top 40,000 teachers and employees cut the education sector.^[15]

Works

Poetry

• Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa (poetry collection, 1994)
• "Ka Bel"
• "The Yaya’s Lullaby"
• "Servant" (2006)
• "Sadness"
• "Eulogy of Roaches"
• "Jamborzkie Light"

Literary criticism

• Revaluation: Essays on Belles-lettres, Cinema, and Popular Culture, 1984
• Tagalog Poetry, 1570-1898: Tradition and Influences on Its Development, 1986
• Abot-Tanaw: Sulyap at Suri sa Nagbabagong Kultura at Lipunan, 1987

Textbooks

• Pedagogy
• Philippine Literature: Practised History and Anthology

Awards

References

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