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Deriada: “An Accomplished Writer” Deriada has won several awards, including five first places in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards: the Short Story English Category in 1975 with ―The Day of The Locusts;‖ the Dulang may Isang Yugto Category in 1987 with ―Mutya ng Saging;‖ the Short Story for Children in English Category in 1993 ...
Leoncio P. Deriada was a Filipino writer and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas in Iloilo.
bol, image and irony. "The Day of the Locusts" interweaves calamity, fana-ticism and survival. Locusts swarm over a barrio at sunset, and while Asun claims that they are "God's punishment for our sins ... to kill those creatures is to defy God's will" (p. 2), Bernardo has a more practical remedy: to gather the locusts and eat them.
Apr 4, 2019 · He was an award-winning fictionist, poet, and playwright, producing stories such as The Road to Mawab and The Day of the Locusts, and plays such as The Dog-Eaters and Medea of Siquijor.
Of these thirteen, five are first-prize winners, and these include "The Day of the Locusts" (Short Story, 1975), "Mutya ng Saging" (Dulaang May Isang Yugto, 1987), "The Man Who Hated Birds" (Short Story for Children, 1993), "Medea of Siquijor" (One-Act Play, 1999), and "Maragtas: How Kapinangan Tricked Sumakwel Twice" (Full-Length Play, 2001).
May 1, 2018 · Author of the novel “People on Claveria Street.”. Leoncio Deriada is a prolific writer of fiction, drama, essays, and poetry, writing in English, Tagalog, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, and Cebuano. He has won the Palanca Awards multiple times and in different languages. Holder of a Ph.D. in English and Literature from Silliman University.
Leoncio P. Deriada was a Filipino writer and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas in Iloilo.
