1967 Palanca Awards
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The 17th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country.[1]
LIST OF WINNERS
The 1967 winners, the seventeenth recipients of the awards, were divided into six categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story, poetry, and one-act play:
Short Story
- First Prize: Gregorio C. Brillantes, “The Fires of the Sun, The Crystalline Sky”
- Second Prize: Gilda Cordero-Fernando, “Early in Our Lord”
- Third Prize: Tita Lacambra Ayala, “Everything”
Poetry
- First Prize: Edith L. Tiempo, “The Tracks of Babylon and Others”
- Second Prize: Marra Pl. Lanot, “Sheaves of Things Burning”
- Third Prize: Epifanio San Juan Jr., “The Exorcism”
One-Act Play
- First Prize: Nestor Torre Jr., “And a Happy Birthday”
- Second Prize: Jesus T. Peralta, “Voices of Laughter”
- Third Prize: Nestor Torre Jr., “Apparitions”