Ophelia Dimalanta Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Dimalanta also wrote critical reviews in international journals and local periodicals and taught at Colegio de San Juan de Letran and De La Salle University. The Ateneo de Manila University honored Dimalanta with the 13th Paz Marquez-Benitez Memorial Lecture and Exhibit which was organized by the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (Aliww).

Aside from her career in Literature, Dimalanta is also known to have founded in 1995 the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters’ official choir, the UST Chorus of Arts and Letters, (or the AB Chorale) with Mr. Paulo Zarate as its first musical director. She also penned the lyrics of the Hymn of the said Faculty.

In 2002, UST published Dimalanta’s verse drama, “Lorenzo Ruiz, Escribano: A Play in Two Acts,” with a Filipino translation by Florentino H. Hornedo and Michael M. Coroza. It was premiered on 22–24 February 1994 at UST in a production directed by Isagani R. Cruz.

Born in San Juan City in the Philippines, Dimalanta took up her bachelor’s degree, Master’s Degree, and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Santo Tomas (UST). Trained as a concert pianist, Dimalanta focused on poetry, publishing her first collection of poems, Montage in 1974.

Dimalanta published several books in her lifetime: seven books on poetry, one on drama, one on criticism, and one on her collected prose. Her first collection of poems, Montage, won the Iowa State University Best Poetry Award (1969), and first prize (poetry category) in the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (1974).

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (June 16, 1932 – November 4, 2010) was a Filipina poet, editor, author, and teacher. One of the country’s most respected writers, Dimalanta published several books of poetry, criticism, drama, and prose and edited various literary anthologies. In 1999, she received Southeast Asia’s highest literary honor, the S.E.A. Write Award.