Simeon Dumdum, Jr.

Simeon Dumdum, Jr. (born March 7, 1948) is a Regional Trial Court Executive Judge in Cebu City, The Philippines, and a published poet. He once studied for the priesthood in Galway, Ireland, but left the seminary to take up law. After years of practicing law, he was appointed Regional Trial Court judge in Cebu. He won prizes for his poetry, which he has published and read abroad.

Early years

He was born in Balamban, Cebu, where he grew up and had his early schooling. He attended St. Francis Academy for his secondary education, and then went to St. Clement's College in Iloilo City, where he did a year of college. In Ireland, he went to University College, Galway.[1]

Author/Awards

He has published five books - The Gift of Sleep (poems), Third World Opera (poems), Love in the Time of the Camera (essays), Selected Poems and New (poems), and My Pledge of Love Cannot be Broken (essays). He won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for English poetry five times,[2] and the Manila Critics Circle's National Book Award three times.[3] In 2005, he received a medallion for writing the best decision in a criminal case, second level courts, in the Judicial Excellence Awards sponsored by the Supreme Court of the Philippines.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Dumdum, Simeon; Mo, Timothy; Mojares, Resil (2004), "In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English", World Englishes 23 (1): 191–198, doi:10.1111/j.1467-971X.2004.00344.x.
  2. ↑ Palanca award winners 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 2011.
  3. ↑ National Book Award winners: Love in the Time of Camera, Essay category, 1998, and My Pledge of Love Cannot be Broken and Other Essays on, Alas, More Fragile and Edible Things, Essay category, 2002; Poems: Selected and New, 1982-1997, Poetry category, 1999.
  4. ↑ 2005 Judicial Excellence Awardees.

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