National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera dies at 89
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(PH National Artist; cw: death) One of our National Artists for Literature has sadly passed away:
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He had died from stroke complications. And he studied at the same university as me, though not at the same time.
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Bienvenido Lumbera - Wikipedia
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Interesting fact: When he got arrested during Martial Law, a former student of his wrote to then not yet President Fidel Ramos to release him and that former student is also his wife/widow.