Guillermo Gómez Rivera
Guillermo Gómez Rivera | |
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| Born | September 12, 1936 Dingle, Iloilo, Commonwealth of the Philippines, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, poet, playwright, historian, linguist, Hispanista |
| Language | Tagalog Spanish English Hiligaynon |
| Citizenship | Spanish Filipino |
| Alma mater | University of San Agustin Colegio de San Juan de Letran |
Guillermo Gómez Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎeɾmo ˈɣomes riˈβeɾa]; born 12 September 1936) is a Spanish Filipino multilingual author, historian, educator and linguistic scholar whose lifelong work has been devoted to the advocacy to preserve Spanish culture as an important element of the Filipino identity (according to Hispanista movement).
Gómez is the most senior academic director of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española. In 1975, he was awarded the Premio Zobel, the Philippines' highest literary honor bestowed on works in Spanish. He was appointed secretary of the Commission on the Filipino Language Committee of the Philippine Constitutional Convention (1971–73).