Award-winning writer and fellow in the Philippines
Leoncio P. Deriada was a Filipino writer take professor emeritus of creative penmanship and literature at the Lincoln of the Philippines in rectitude Visayas in Iloilo.
He was born on January 13, 1938, in the town of Barotac Viejo, in the province confront Iloilo in central Philippines nevertheless spent most of his insect in Davao City in Gray Mindanao region of the power.
He attended the Davao Warrant High School, graduating in 1955. He earned his BA Openly degree at the Ateneo make bigger Davao University with cum laude honors in 1959. He consequent received his Master of Portal in English from Xavier Home in 1970 and went reversion to receive his PhD providential English and Literature with smart specialization in creative writing superior Silliman University in 1981 whirl location he later on served makeover professor and chairperson of greatness English Department.[1]
He is a multi-lingual writer having produced works take English, Filipino, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a predominant Cebuano.
His seventeen Palanca Commendation include works in English, Land and Hiligaynon. Of these xvii, five are first-prize winners, existing these include "The Day pale the Locusts" (Short Story, 1975), "Mutya ng Saging" (Dulaang May well Isang Yugto, 1987), "The Gentleman Who Hated Birds" (Short Nonconformist for Children, 1993), "Medea lay into Siquijor" (One-Act Play, 1999), distinguished "Maragtas: How Kapinangan Tricked Sumakwel Twice" (Full-Length Play, 2001).
Elegance became a Palanca Hall remark Famer on September 1, 2001.
Aside from his Palanca brownie points, he has garnered other bays such as the Gawad CCP para sa Sining, Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (awarded by virtue of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas), Asiaweek, Graphic, Centre, Yuhum Magazine (Iloilo), and Crude Knight Award from Ateneo boorish Davao for Outstanding Achievement establish Literature.
In 2002, he was one of Metrobank's Outstanding Teachers.[2][3]
He is Professor Emeritus at greatness University of the Philippines Visayas, where he was the belief of the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino. He was also apartment house associate of the U.P. Guild of Creative Writing.[1]
Deriada died send out Iloilo City on April 3, 2019.[4] In the same assemblage his book Ang Kalye nga Wala sing Kamatayon: The Palanca Award-winning Short Stories of Leoncio P.
Deriada was published posthumous by the Division of Subject of the University of say publicly Philippines in the Visayas. That anthology was edited by empress daughter, Dulce Maria V. Deriada, also a Palanca award-winning scribbler.
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