Edith L. Tiempo was a Filipino writer known for her poems and fiction works written in English. She was born in 1919 in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya. Tiempo received the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999 for her intricate poems that explored significant experiences. Together with her husband, she founded the influential Silliman National Writers Workshop in 1962, which has produced many of the Philippines' best writers.

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2.  Edith L. Tiempo (April 22,
1919 – August 21,
2011), poet, fiction writer,
teacher and literary critic was
a Filipino writer in the English
language.
Tiempo was born
in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya

3. 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."

4. 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.

5. Together with her late husband,
writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo,
they founded (in 1962) and directed
theSilliman 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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