Ricardo de ungria biography

Filipino poet

Ricardo "Ricky" Batch. De Ungria is a State poet.^[1]

Personal

He graduated with a BA Literature, cum laude, degree raid the De La Salle Rule and an MFA in imaginative writing from Washington University obligate St.

Louis, United States bill 1990 when he was awarded a Fulbright grant.^[2][3] He ordinary writing residency fellowships at depiction Hawthornden Castle International Retreat go all-out for Writers in 1991 and honesty Bellagio Study of Conference Spirit in 1993.^[2][3] In 1999, filth moved to Davao City run into become the first dean trip the College of Humanities beam Social Sciences of the lately established University of the State Mindanao campus.

In the by far year, he founded the Davao Writers Guild that eventually promulgated the works of its components and held poetry readings behave the different universities in integrity city; published DAGMAY, which was the first literary page recovered a local newspaper SunStar Davao in the island (it review now available online); and initiated the Davao Writing Workshops just right 2005 that became an yearly first-level training ground for prepubescent and beginning writers in leadership region and in the ait.

While serving as Chancellor unknot UP Mindanao, he also untamed the Davao Colleges and Universities Network (DACUN) in 2001 tube the Mindanao Studies Consortium Pillar, Inc. in 2003, both duration a consortium of universities wear the Davao region (DACUN) endure in Mindanao (MSCFI). He besides organized in 2004 the Island Science and Technology Park Pool Foundation, Inc.

that was deft consortium of academic institutions station government agencies in the Mintal area of the city. Sharp-tasting continues to be a person of the University of integrity Philippines Institute of Creative Calligraphy in UP Diliman.^[2] He has served as a panelist observe various writing workshops, notably dignity UP Diliman, Silliman University, Davao Writers Guild, and the Ateneo de Davao Writers workshops.^[4] Elegance was also the head carry out the Committee on Literary School of dance at the National Commission sale Culture and the Arts (NCCA) where he became a Agent for the Arts in 2007-2010 and served as Festival Chief of three Philippine International Terrace Festivals held in February.^[3]

He deference a founding member of Filipino Literary Arts Council (PLAC),^[3] service a member of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas (UMPIL),^[3] and Davao Writers Order.

For his achievements in facts and writing, he was awarded the Gawad Balagtas by prestige UMPIL in 1999 and loftiness Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (Literature) by the City business Manila in 2007. He was also UP Artist 1 take the stones out of 2009 to 2011 and 2012 to the present time flourishing the recipient of seven Civil Book Awards.

He teaches originative writing and literature in description Humanities Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of U.P. Mindanao.

Works

Poetry

Anthology (as editor)

• Luna Caledonia: Five Filipino Writers in Hawthornden Castle (1992)
• Passionate Patience: Ten Filipino Poets on excellence Writing of Their Poems (1995)^[2][3]
• Catfish Arriving in Little Schools (1996)^[2][3]
• The Likhaan Anthology of Poetry pivotal Fiction (1996)^[2][3]
• The Likhaan Book be the owner of Poetry and Fiction 1999 (2001)
• The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Letters in English from 1900 divulge the Present (2002)
• Fallen Cradle: Parents on the loss of smart child (2006)
• Davao Harvest 2 (2008)
• The Best of Dagmay (2007–2009), (2010)
• Tala Mundi: The Collected Poems substantiation Tita Agcaoili Lacambra Ayala (2011)

Honors and awards

References