A state funeral is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 29 for National Artist for Literate Dr. Edith L. Tiempo, who died last Sunday, August 21, in Dumaguete City at the age of 92.
The necrological services will be held at 9 a.m. at the Silliman University Church and interment will take place at the Dumaguete Memorial Park at 12 noon.
The National Commission on Culture & the Arts, in its website, says Tiempo, a poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic, is regarded as one of the finest Filipino writers in English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight.
Together with her late husband, Edilberto K. Tiempo, she founded and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City.
In the last 50 years, the Workshop has produced some of the country’s best writers, who have come to fondly call her “Mommy Edith.”
Her works have won numerous prizes from the Don Carlos Palanca Awards in Literature, the CCP literary contest, and the Philippine Free Press literary contest.
She was conferred National Artist for Literature in 1999.
Tiempo is survived by daughter Cynthia Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas; son Maldon Edilberto Tiempo; son-in-law Lemuel M.Torrevillas; her grandchild Lauren Maria Torrevillas Seamans and her husband Michael Roy Seamans; and great-grandchild Michael Roy Seamans Jr.; and all her relatives.
The NCCA and CCP Tribute will be held at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines at a later date.
