1972 Palanca Awards
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The 22nd 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 1972 winners were divided into six categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story, poetry, and one-act play:
Short Story
- First Prize: N.V.M. Gonzales, "The Tomato Game"
- Second Prize: Gregorio Brillantes, "The Apollo Centennial"
- Third Prize: Elsa M. Coscolluela, "After This, Our Exile"
Poetry
- First Prize: Virginia Moreno, "Batik Maker and Other Poems"
- Second Prize: Artemio Tadena, "The Edge of the Wind"
- Third Prize: Federico Licsi Espino Jr., "Tinikling: A Sheaf of Poems"
One-Act Play
- First Prize: Jesus T. Peralta, "Grave for Blue Flowers"
- Second Prize: Manuel M. Martell, "The Undiscovered Country"
- Third Prize: Elsa M. Coscolluela, "The Renegade"
- Julian E. Dacanay Jr., "Now is the Time for All Good Men to Come to the Aid of their Country"