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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 professor in St. Paul University Dumaguete, teaching fine arts, drama, and graduate school. As a Guggenheim writing fellow in 1955, he submitted a collection of short stories, ''A Stream at Dalton Pass and Other Stories'', for his

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at the

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. 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

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, graduating in 1962; 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

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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"
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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

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'' (1953) *''

Cry Slaughter! ''Cry Slaughter!'' is a 1957 novel by Filipino author Edilberto K. Tiempo. Before the novel’s revision for publication in the United States, it was first published in the Philippines as ''Watch in the Night'' in 1953. In the United States, the ...

'' (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 *

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* U.P. Golden Anniversary Literary Contest * National Book Award

References

External links

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Collection
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"The Witch"
one of Tiempo's short stories, from a

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