1975 Palanca Awards
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The 25th 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 1975 winners were divided into six categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story, poetry, and one-act play:
Short Story
- First Prize: Alfred A. Yuson, “Romance and Faith in Mount Banahaw”
- Leoncio P. Deriada, “The Day of the Locusts”
- Second Prize: Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., “Agcalan Point”
- Luning B. Ira, “Once Upon A Cruise: Generations and Other Languages”
- Cirilo F. Bautista, “The Man Who Made a Covenant with the Wind”
- Third Prize: Benjamin Bautista and Linda Ledesma, “A Summer Goodbye”
- Porfirio Villarin Jr., “Discovery”
- Leoncio P. Deriada, “The Dog Eaters”
- Mauro Avena, “The People's Prison”
Poetry
- First Prize: Cirilo F. Bautista, “Telex Moon”
- Second Prize: Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez, “Adarna: Six Poems from a Larger Corpus”
- Third Prize: Ricaredo Demetillo, “The City and the Thread of Life”
One-Act Play
- First Prize: Rolando S. Tinio, “A Life in the Slums”
- Second Prize: Paul Stephen Lim, “Password”
- Third Prize: Maidan T. Flores, “The Minerva Foundation”