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Screenshot of the event celebrating National Artist for Literature Bien Lumbera’s 89th birthday.Poet, social commentator and literary scholar Bienvenido Lumbera only had two words when asked what birthday present he would like to receive from the president, “Go away!”
By DAWN CECILIA PEÑA
MANILA National Artist for Literature Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera celebrated his 89th birthday today, April 11, with an online event titled ‘Sa Panahon ng Pandemya: Lugaw, Pagdiriwang, at Protesta’. The virtual get-together was organized by the poet’s family members and long-time friends with Concerned Artists of the Philippines.
Poet, social commentator and literary scholar Ka Bien only had two words when asked what birthday present he would like to receive from the president, “Go away!”
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That old family mirror my father used in his youth was my father himself during the Japanese occupation.
In some of his more popular short stories, as critics and scholars observed, like Teodoro Agoncillo (Mga Piling Kuwento 1886-1948), there were no heroes, no figure that stood out in the drama,
“Walang tiyak na tauhang nangingibabaw.” This is a departure from the usual mold of short stories. What counts is the ability of the thought configuration and the clever use of words to capture and mirror the reality of the milieu. True, what people did during the Japanese time were nothing short of heroic. As one poet during Stalin’s time expressed: “No foreign sky protected me, no stranger’s wing shielded my face, I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place.”