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Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta

  • 1. OPHELIA ALCANTARA-DIMALANTA By Mann Rentoy

  • 3. born 16 June 1934 in San Juan, Rizal and died 4 November 2010

  • 4. completed her BA, MA and Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) taught Literature and Creative Writing in UST from 1953 to 2010

  • 5. Founding Member of the Manila Critics' Circle (which hands out the National Book Awards yearly) Full Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Dean of the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters Director of the Center for Creative Writing and Studies of UST Writer in Residence of the Center for Creative Writing and Studies of UST

  • 6. Best Poem Award from Iowa State University (1968)

  • 7. Palanca Awards for Poetry (1974, 1983)

  • 8. Fernando Maria Guerrero Award (1976)

  • 9. Focus Literary Award for Fiction (1977, 1981)

  • 10. Cultural Center of the Philippines Literature Grant for Criticism (1983)

  • 11. the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from theWriters' Union of the Philippines (1990)

  • 12. South-East Asia (SEA) Writer's Award from King Bhumibol
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    WRITING ABOUT FEMININITY AND WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE – Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, the most adored poet in the Philippines

    She spent more than half of her life teaching and creating literary works characterized by femininity and the experience of women. In 1999, she had the S.E.A. Award for writing, Southeast Asia’s highest literary honor. Ophelia Alcantara Dimalantahttps://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblio/9424478 was born on a June day in 1932 in San Juan (Rizal, Philippine Islands). You are a poet, editor and teacher, you have not only published books of poetry and prose, but you have even edited literary anthologies. In addition to her most famous work, Montage, she has published Ophelia as well as Anthology of Philippine Contemporary Literature. In sober and delicate lines, she described the murder of truth in a country that lived with lies. Like clouds of nasty smoke, the ensemble of police investigations that intertwined with court hearings generated those lies.

    WE ARE SUPREME – We fritter away in little rites, simulating joy and becoming, ecstatically alive extr

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    Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Poet (1934 – 2010+)





    A HOMECOMING DREAM




    ...I regret to inform you that our dear Ophie Dimalanta passed away shortly before dinnertime in her Navotas home due to hypertension-related illness....she got out of the house, returned promptly because she was not feeling well. She died in her sleep. --- Nov. 4, 2010 E-mail from Wendell Capili, poet and University of the Philippines professor:

    To die, to sleep; / To sleep? Perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,/ For in that sleep of death what dreams may come/ When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, /Must give us pause.

    --- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare




    The dreams must include a salon of jesters
    Belting throaty ululations announcing her coming
    To the party of outpouring angst and crippling blocks.

    Are you all poets here? Yarn spinners maybe? Ah,
    Sparrows wounded in flight bogged down by fear
    Of rejection slips and rancid rancorous reviews!

    She will touch them ever so lightly, giggling a little,
    Having been there, flying, dying, having done that,

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