Edmundo Farolan, born in Manila (1943), was a young writer-scholar who had won literary awards abroad when he studied philosophy and letters in Madrid. He taught English, Spanish, and Media in various universities, including the University of the Philippines

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, the Ateneo de Manila University, Webster University Thailand

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, University of Silesia (Czech Republic), Dalian University

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 (China

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), University of Toronto

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, and Corpus Christi College (Canada).

Farolan obtained his Bachelor's degree from Ateneo de Manila University

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, a Master's degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D in Speech Communication from Bowling Green State University

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 (USA). He has acted professionally for Teatro Filipino (CCP) and directed for the Vancouver Actors' Theater and the Vancouver Experimental Theatre. He is the Founding Editor of an Arts & Entertainment e-zine, ReviewVancouver, and Revista Filipina.

A recipient of the Premio Zobel in 1981, he has published several books of poetry, anthologies, textbooks and translations. Among these is his outstanding translation of a Latin American novel into Tagalog, Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Guiraldes which was sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina. He has been a member of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española since 1983 and has given lectures on linguistics and Fil-Hispanic literature internationally. In 1983, he delivered a lecture on " Recto y Literatura " in Caracas, Venezuela. He also published his Reflexiones Sobre el Primer Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española as well as other articles in Spanish on Hispano-Philippine Literature and Linguistics.

From 2002 to 2010, he lectured at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France), Ateneo Obrero de Gijón (Spain), University of Oulou (Finland), Dresden Polytechnic University (Germany), Donetsk Academy (Ukraine), and Universidad Catolica del Norte (Chile).