Bienvenido Lumbera

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Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines. An alumnus of the University of Santo Tomas and Indiana University, he taught Literature, Philippine Studies and Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, De La Salle University-Manila and Ateneo de Manila University. Lumbera was also appointed visiting professor of Philippine Studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan from 1985 to 1988 and the very first Asian scholar-in-residence at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

After Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law, Lumbera was arrested by the Philippine military in January 1974. He was released in December of the same year. Cynthia Nograles, his former student at the Ateneo de Manila University, wrote to Gen. Fidel Ramos for his release. Lumbera married Cynthia a few months later. In 1976, Lumbera began teaching at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literatures, U.P. College of Arts and Letters. In 1977, he served as editor of Diliman Review upon the request of then College of Arts and Sciences Dean Francisco Nemenzo. The publication was openly against the dictatorship but was left alone by Marcos’ authorities.

At the height of Martial Law, Lumbera had taken on other creative projects. He began writing librettos for musical theater. Initially, the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) requested him to create a musical based on Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart. Eventually, Lumbera created several highly-acclaimed musical dramas such as Tales of the Manuvu; Rama, Hari; Nasa Puso ang Amerika; Bayani; Noli me Tangere: The Musical; and Hibik at Himagsik Nina Victoria Laktaw. Sa Sariling Bayan: Apat na Dulang May Musika, an anthology of Lumbera's musical dramas, was published 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 Life and Culture; Filipinos Writing: Philippine Literature from the Regions; and Paano Magbasa ng Panitikang Filipino: Mga Babasahing Pangkolehiyo.

Lumbera also established his leadership among Filipino writers, artists and critics by co-founding cultural 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 of Marcos although he was in Japan during the 1986 Edsa uprising, teaching at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies.

Lumbera is now widely acknowledged as one of the pillars of contemporary Philippine literature, cultural studies and film, having written and edited numerous books on literary history, literary criticism, and film. He also received several awards citing his contribution to Philippine letters, most notably the 1975 Palanca Award for Literature; the 1993 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts; several National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle; the 1998 Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for Drama; and the 1999 Cultural Center of the Philippines Centennial Honors for the Arts. He currently the editor of Sanghaya (National Commission on Culture and the Arts), Emeritus Professor at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, College of Arts and Letters, U.P. Diliman, and Professor of Literature at De La Salle University-Manila.

The launching of Bayan at Lipunan: Ang Kritisismo ni Bienvenido Lumbera, edited by Rosario Torres-Yu and published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, was celebrated by the University of the Philippines in January 2006.

Bienvenido Lumbera was proclaimed National Artist in April 2006.

Contents

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry

  • Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa, 1993

[edit] Literary Criticism

  • Revaluation: Essays on Literature, 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

[edit] Textbooks

  • Pedagogy
  • Philippine Literature: A History and Anthology
  • Rediscovery: Essays in Philippine Life and Culture
  • Filipinos Writing: Philippine Literature from the Regions
  • Paano Magbasa ng Panitikang Filipino: Mga Babasahing Pangkolehiyo

[edit] Librettos

  • Tales of the Manuvu
  • Rama, Hari
  • Nasa Puso ang Amerika
  • Bayani
  • Noli Me Tangere
  • Hibik at Himagsik Nina Victoria Laktaw

[edit] Awards

[edit] External links

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