Here’s the Jaime An Lim Biography, a famous Filipino author.
JAIME AN LIM BIOGRAPHY – This is the biography of the famous Filipino writer and poet, Jaime An Lim.
A known writer of poems, novels, essays, and short fiction is Jaime An Lim. He was born on January 7, 1946, in Cagayan de Oro City. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in English degree cum laude from Mindanao State University in 1968. He went to the United States in 1980 to receive his Master of Arts in Comparative Literature, Master of Arts in Education, and Doctor of Philosophy in Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington.
As a writer, he wrote essays about the novels of Maximo Kalaw, Jaime Laya, Steven Javellana, Edilberto Tiempo, and Wilfredo Nollado which are compiled in his book entitled Literature and Politics: The Colonial Experience In Nine Philippine Novels published in 1993.
He wrote for publications like the Philippine Free Press, Focus, and Panorama. He became a writing fellow at the Silliman National Writers Workshop and UP Writers Workshop a year after.
He received the following Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature awards as recognition for his brilliance:
- short story The Liberation of Mrs. Fidele Magsilang
- The Changing of the Guard: Three Critical Essays
- poem Yasmin
- short story for children The AXOLATL Colony
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He also received other awards like:
- Academy of American Poets in 1981 at Indiana University
- Tutungi Award in 1983
- Ellis Literary Award in 1984
- 2000 Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas by the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas
Lim retired as a professor of English from the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) at the age of 70. In the same institution, he organized the Mindanao Creative Writers Group, Inc., and founded the Iligan National Writers Workshop. He is also the Dean of the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Far Eastern University in Manila.
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