Edmundo Faroln Romero

A Hispanic writer from The Phillipines

Ph Edmundo Faroln Romero is a resarcher, poet and lecturer who devoted his life to the rescue of the Hispanic Filipino culture. He published works about Jos Rizal, de la Costa and many other writers. He published also several books of poetry in Spanish as well as in English. He lives in Vancouver, BC, in Canad.

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Edmundo Farolan was a young writer-scholar who had won literary awards abroad when he studied philosophy and letters in Madrid. He taught English, Spanish, and Media in various universities, including the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University, Webster University (Thailand), University of Silesia (Czech Republic), Dalian University (China), University of Toronto, and Corpus Christi College (Canada). He obtained his Bachelor's degree from Ateneo de Manila University, a Master's degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D in Speech Communication from Bowling Green State University (USA). He has acted professionally for Teatro Filipino (CCP) and directed for the Vancouver Actors' Theater and the Vancouver Experimental Theatre. He is the Founding Editor of an Arts & Entertainment e-zine, ReviewVancouver, and Revista Filipina. A recipient of the Premio Zobel in 1981, he has published several books of poetry, anthologies, textbooks and translations. Among these is his outstanding translation of a Latin American novel into Tagalog, Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Guiraldes which was sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina. He has been a member of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Espaola since 1983 and has given lectures on linguistics and Fil-Hispanic literature internationally. In 1983, he delivered a lecture on " Recto y Literatura " in Caracas, Venezuela. He also published his Reflexiones Sobre el Primer Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Espaola as well as other articles in Spanisih on Hispano-Philippine Literature and Linguistics. For decades he was fighting against discrimination about the great cultural treasures of the Hispanic Phillipine culture and their heritage. From 2002 to 2005, he lectured at the Universit de Bretagne Occidentale (France), Ateneo Obrero de Gijn (Spain), University of Oulou (Finland), Dresden Polytechnic University (Germany), and Donetsk Academy (Ukraine).

Some links about the Hispanic culture in Phillipines. Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes, Filipino writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Castrillo_Brillantes

The poet Edmundo Faroln in Wikipedia An article by Faroln about the Hispanic poetry in the Phillipines, in the Canadian webzine La Guirnalda Polar.

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