Guillermo Gómez Rivera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Guillermo Gómez Rivera

Filipino writer

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1936

Place of Birth: Iloilo City, Philippines

Profession: poet, historian, journalist, dancer, linguist

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Guillermo Gómez Rivera

  • Guillermo Gómez Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [gi'?e?mo '?omes ri'ße?a] ; born 12 September 1936) is a Filipino multilingual author, historian, educator and linguistic scholar whose lifelong work has been devoted to the movement to preserve Spanish culture as an important element of the Filipino identity.He is the most senior academic director of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española of the Real Academia Española.
  • In 1975, he was awarded the Premio Zóbel, the Philippines' highest literary honor bestowed on the best works in Spanish.
  • Due to his expertise in the Spanish language as well as his knowledge of various Philippine languages, including Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Tagalog/Filipino, and Chavacano, he was appointed secretary of the Commission on the Filipino Language Committee of the Philippine Constitutional Convention (1971–73).As a Spanish professor at Adamson University he authored textbooks on Spanish grammar, speech and composition while working for San Miguel Corporation, a food conglomerate.
  • He used his academic position to try to influence national debates on the question of whether or not Spanish should be retained as a compulsory subject in Philippine high schools and universities, a battle that many pro-Spanish advocates believe they had lost with the passage of the 1987 Constitution but which some Hispanists say started with the 1973 Constitution.Having done extensive research on Spanish dances, including flamenco and Sevillanas, he formed a dance school to teach students of all ages an appreciation of Spanish culture through the dance art.
  • He traveled to Spain to improve his skills, learning from Spanish masters of these dance forms.
  • He is considered a maestro de flamenco in the Philippines.In an hour-long broadcast devoted to Asia on September 24, 2013, Spanish Radio and Television Corp.
  • (RTVE) described Gómez Rivera as a "writer, journalist, historian...[who] has tracked incessantly Hispanic legacy in the Philippines and has recovered part of an endangered folklore.
  • During the same broadcast, RTVE played songs from an LP of rare Filipino compositions in Spanish that Gómez Rivera recorded in 1960 and reissued in 2006 after it had been digitally remastered. In addition to his contributions to Philippine literature and history, Gómez Rivera is also an accomplished linguist and polyglot.
  • He speaks and writes fluently in his native Hiligaynon as well as in English and Tagalog.
  • Aside from being an acclaimed master of the Spanish language in the Philippines, he is also conversant in Italian, Portuguese, Kinaray-a and Cebuano, and has made an extensive study of the Visayan and Chavacano languages.

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