1988 Palanca Awards
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The 38th 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 1988 winners were divided into ten categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story, poetry, essay, one-act play, and full-length play:
Short Story
- First Prize: Eli Ang Barroso, "Our Lady of the Arts and Letters"
- Second Prize: Mario Miclat, "Antonio and His China Wall"
- Third Prize: Eric Gamalinda, "Mourning and Weeping in this Valley of Tears"
- Nowell Danao, "The Perpetual Monday Morning in the Life of Jose Sakay"
Poetry
- First Prize: Merlie Alunan, "Poems for Amina"
- Second Prize: Eric Gamalinda, "Patria Y Muerte"
- Ramon Sunico, "Secret of Graphite"
- Edgardo B. Maranan, "Star Maps and Other Poems"
- Third Prize: Clovis Nazareno, "Horns of the World"
- Benilda S. Santos, "Nude"
- Elson Elizaga, "Poems for Three Friends"
Essay
- First Prize: Tezza Parel, "A Sort of Life by the Seawall"
- Second Prize: Isagani R. Cruz, "Deconstructing America: America Through the Eyes of Filipinos"
- Third Prize: Edgardo B. Maranan, "Palawan: Tales of Poverty, Poetry and Time Travel"
One-Act Play
- First Prize: Bobby Flores Villasis, "Salcedo"
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: Elsa M. Coscolluela, "Japayukisan"
Full-Length Play
- First Prize: No Winner
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: Mig Alvarez Enriquez, "Alin Ed Purona or Princess Urduja"
- Honorable Mention: Felix A. Clemente, "The Wedding"
- Leoncio P. Deriada, "Ulahingan Rud-suan"