Here’s the Aida Rivera Biography and some things you’d like to know about her life.
AIDA RIVERA BIOGRAPHY – This is the life story of Aida Rivera, an art patron and a celebrated and literary writer.
“Love in the Cornhusks” writer Aida Rivera was born in Sulu on January 22, 1926, but crossed over to Negros Oriental to get her English degree at Silliman University in the year 1949. She is the first editor of Sands and Coral, the literary folio of the institution and she graduated Cum Laude. And as for her master’s degree in English, she decided to pursue it at the University of Michigan on a Fulbright grant.
Her father is late Judge Pablo Rivera and their family has resided in various areas such as Ilocos Region, Samar, Dumaguete, Sorsogon, and Bacolod. She got married to Donald Ford in 1958. Ford was the Director of the United States Information Service
Her story “Love in the Cornhusks” is one of her stories that snatched a significant award. It won the Jules & Avery Hopwood Prize in Michigan and in 1955, it got featured in the Sunday Chronicle’s This Week magazine. This is just one of her five stories. She released these five stories under the title Now and at the Hour and Other Short Stories in 1957.
That is her first collection and the second one is called Born in the Year 1900 (her mother’s birth year) and Other Stories (1997) which was composed of 13 stories that she wrote.
See some of her achievements:
- Jules and Avery Hopwood Award for fiction in 1954
- East-West Cultural Center grant at the University of Hawaii in 1978
- founded the Learning Center of the Arts in Davao City in 1980 (this is the first Fine Arts college institution in Davao which was later called Ford Academy of the Arts, Inc. in 1993
- Datu Bago Award in 1982
- Philippine Government’s Parangal for Post War Writers award in 1984
- Outstanding Sillimanian in 1993
- National Fellow for Fiction by the UP Creative Writing Center in 1993
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