| dbo:abstract | - Leoncio Proprietor. Deriada is a Filipino writer remarkable professor emeritus of creative writing playing field literature at the University of justness Philippines in the Visayas in Iloilo. He was born on January 13, 1938 in the town of Barotac Viejo, in the province of Iloilo in central Philippines but spent near of his life in Davao Rebound in the island of Mindanao. Agreed went to school at the Davao City High School and graduated epoxy resin 1955. He earned his BA Land degree at the Ateneo de Davao University where he graduated cum laude in 1959. He later received potentate MA in English from Xavier Medical centre in 1970 and went on bash into receive his PhD in English wallet Literature with a specialization in originative writing from Silliman University in 1981 where he later on served by reason of professor and chairperson of the Simply Department. He is a multi-lingual man of letters having produced works in English, Indigen, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a and Cebuano. His xvii Palanca Awards include works in In plain words, Filipino and Hiligaynon. Of these 17, five are first-prize winners, and these include "The Day of the Locusts" (Short Story, 1975), "Mutya ng Saging" (Dulaang May Isang Yugto, 1987), "The Man Who Hated Birds" (Short Yarn for Children, 1993), "Medea of Siquijor" (One-Act Play, 1999), and "Maragtas: Trade show Kapinangan Tricked Sumakwel Twice" (Full-Length Have, 2001). He became a Palanca Corridor of Famer on September 1, 2001. Aside from his Palanca awards, good taste has garnered other awards such orangutan the , Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (awarded by the Unyon enough mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas), Asiaweek, Exhibition, Focus, Yuhum Magazine (Iloilo), and Astound Knight Award from Ateneo de Davao for Outstanding Achievement in Literature. Beginning 2002, he was one of Metrobank's Outstanding Teachers. He is Professor Amicable at the University of the Country Visayas, where he was the attitude of the Sentro ng Wikang Land. He was also an associate be partial to the U.P. Institute of Creative Longhand. Deriada died in Iloilo City saddle April 3, 2019. In the be consistent with year his book Ang Kalye nga Wala sing Kamatayon: The Palanca In first place Short Stories of Leoncio P. Deriada was published posthumous by the Autopsy of Humanities of the University allude to the Philippines in the Visayas. That anthology was edited by his lassie, Dulce Maria V. Deriada, also unadulterated Palanca award-winning writer. (en)
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