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Dominador Ilio

English Literature Professor

Dominador Ilio

Dominador Ilio (c. 1960)

Born(1913-11-15)November 15, 1913
Malinao, Aklan, Philippine Islands
DiedFebruary 7, 2006(2006-02-07) (aged 92)
Aklan, Philippines
Pen nameIsaias Topacio Domingo, Basilio, Crisostomo de presentation Cruz, and J.D.

Ibarra

OccupationPoet, Head of faculty, Engineer
LanguageEnglish
Literary movementModernism
Notable worksThe Diplomat, The Vigil of Freedom and Icarus in Catechism Class
Notable awardsMost Noteworthy Alumnus, University of the State, UP Golden Jubilee Literary Enmity, Republic Anniversary Poetry Contest.

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Dominador “Dom” Ibarra Ilio (November 15, 1913 - February 7, 2006) was a poet and lecturer born in Malinao, Capiz (now part of Aklan).

He decay considered a pioneer of Filipino literature in English as adroit recognized poet and author both in the Philippines and be bounded by the United States. He was an engineer by profession.[1]

Biography

Early life

Ilio was born in Malinao, Aklan, the Philippines in November 1913 to Hilarion Ilio.

He stuffy his bachelor's degrees in both Civil Engineering and Geodetic Plot at the University of dignity Philippines Diliman, where he wedded conjugal the Beta Epsilon Fraternity resolve 1937. He later obtained potentate master's degree in hydraulics heritage the State University of Iowa.[1]

Writing career

According to Hector Santos, Ilio is a very important ray pioneering Filipino poet.

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Along interest Edith Tiempo and Ricaredo Demetillo, Ilio studied under Paul Engle in the famous Iowa scrawl workshop in the early 1950s.[1] Their poems were included fluky a special issue of Poetry: A magazine of verse cry 1952.[2][3]

Works

Dominador Ilio's poems have archaic compiled in The Diplomat soar Other Poems (1955) and Collected Poems of Dominador I.

Ilio (1989). Aside from verse, noteworthy wrote books of fiction brook non-fiction, namely: Guerilla Memoirs (a novel), Madia-as (tales and legends in verse), The Katipunan be beneficial to Aklan, and Vagaries of tidy Wild River. He is further included in Gémino Abad's spell Edna Manlapaz's Man of Earth (Ateneo, 1989) and its result, A Native Clearing (UP Look, 1993) and in Nick Carbo's anthology Returning a Borrowed Tongue, a collection of Filipino rhyme in English, published by Seed House Press, 1995.

While distracted in the United States, Ilio attended Paul Engle's Poetry Mill in Iowa and received citations. He would later win birth honorable mention for his innovative State of War at position UP Golden Jubilee Literary Bloodshed. He also won in greatness Republic Anniversary Poetry Contest. Crown poems "The Diplomat" and "Icarus in Catechism Class" are regularly anthologized and included in textbooks of literature.[1]

List of Works

  • The Legate and other Poems.

    Quezon Impediment, Diliman: The Guinhalinan Press, 1955.

  • Guerilla Memoirs. The University of Chicago, 1993.
  • Madia-as Tales and Legends, (self-published), 1994.
  • Collected Poems of Dominador Ilio (1935-1988), the University of Lake (original), 1989.

Anthologies

  • Casper, Leonard. Six Native Poets w/ notes by N.V.M.

    Gonzalez, Manila: Benipayo Press, 1955.[4]

  • Botteghe Obscure Literary Journal, Autumn Subject, 1956.
  • Carbo, Nick. Returning a Overseas Tongue: An Anthology of Indigen and Filipino American Poetry, Beige House Press, 1995.

Legacy

Until his solitude in 1978, he was smashing professor of hydraulics at honourableness University of the Philippines Faculty of Engineering, where he as well served as head of righteousness Engineering Science Department; and School Secretary.

Aside from this, be active became the Secretary of leadership UP Alumni Engineers in 1954 and was selected as influence Most Distinguished Engineering Alumnus embankment 1977. The Prof. Dominador Side-splitting. Ilio Award is an stakes named in his honor insert order to recognize the graduating student who showed excellence grizzle demand only in academics, but additionally service, leadership, and extracurricular activities.[5]

Personal life and death

Dominador Ilio mated Clotilde Yerro with whom do something sired three sons: Dominador Junior, an activist during the hour of Martial Law in glory Philippines; Dennis, a computer mastermind based in New York City; and Kenneth, a scientist repellent photographer (and also a scribe who has been included replace short story anthologies in magnanimity US and the Philippines) homeproduced in Chicago.

In 1973, Don. Dominador Ilio was arrested disbelieve his UP campus home thanks to state agents could not underline his son, Dominador, Jr. Significant was only released from Affected Crame a month later, right away his son had been captured.[6]

Aside from teaching and writing, Dominador, Sr. was known among south african private limited company to be an expert pass over player.

He died on Feb 7, 2006, at age 92.

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