Cirilo F Bautista was a Filipino poet, critic and writer of nonfiction.
14 Facts About Cirilo Bautista
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Cirilo Bautista received his basic education from Legarda Elementary School and Victorino Mapa High School.
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Cirilo Bautista received his degrees in AB Literature from the University of Santo Tomas, MA Literature from St Louis University, Baguio, and Doctor of Arts in Language and Literature from De La Salle University-Manila.
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Cirilo Bautista received a fellowship to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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Cirilo Bautista taught creative writing and literature at St Louis University and the University of Santo Tomas before moving to De La Salle University-Manila in 1970.
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Cirilo Bautista is a co-founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council and a member of the Manila Critics Circle, Philippine Center of International PEN and the Philippine Writers Academy.
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Cirilo Bautista has received Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards as well as Philippines Free Press Awards for Fiction, Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards, Gawad Balagtas from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas, the Pablo Roman Prize for the Novel, and the highest accolades from the City of Manila, Quezon City and Iligan City.
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Cirilo Bautista was hailed in 1993 as Makata ng Taon by the Komisyon ng mga Wika ng Pilipinas for winning the poetry contest sponsored by the government.
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Cirilo Bautista was an exchange professor in Waseda University and Ohio University.
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Cirilo Bautista became an Honorary Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa in 1969, and was the first recipient of a British Council fellowship as a creative writer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1987.
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Cirilo Bautista's poems have appeared in major literary journals, papers, and magazines in the Philippines and in anthologies published in the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, China, Romania, Hong Kong, Germany and Malaysia.
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Cirilo Bautista was a member of the Board of Advisers and Associate, Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University-Manila and Senior Associate, The Center for Creative Writing and Studies of the University of Santo Tomas.
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Cirilo Bautista was laid to rest following a state funeral at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
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Cirilo Bautista was married to Rosemarie Bautista and had three children.