1996 Palanca Awards
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The 46th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Carlos T. Palanca, Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country.[1]
Ma. Luisa A. Igloria was this year's Palanca Hall of Fame awardee. Igloria clinched her fifth first prize for “Translations in the Wilderness: The Politics and Aesthetics of Subduing Colonial Spaces” under the Essay category. The said award is given to writers who have won five first places in any category.[2]
LIST OF WINNERS
The 1996 winners were divided into sixteen categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] novel, short story, short story for children, poetry, essay, one-act play, and full-length play, plus the Dulang Pantelebisyon and Dulang Pampelikula, open only for the Filipino Division:
Novel
- Grand Prize: Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, Recuerdo
Short Story
- First Prize: Carlos Ojeda Aureus, “The Late Comer”
- Second Prize: Antonio Jocson, “Memory of Walking”
- Third Prize: Carmelo Juino, S.J., “The Fairy Prinsoid”
Short Story for Children
- First Prize: Lakambini A. Sitoy, “Pure Magic”
- Second Prize: Lina B. Diaz de Rivera, “The Gem”
- Third Prize: Angelo Rodriguez Lacuesta, “The Daughter of the Wind”
Poetry
- First Prize: Ramil Digal Gulle, “Twenty-fifth Fly”
- Second Prize: Ruel S. De Vera, “Something Like Remembrance”
- Third Prize: Conchitina Cruz, “Second Skin”
Essay
- First Prize: Ma. Luisa A. Igloria, “Translations in the Wilderness: The Politics and Aesthetics of Subduing Colonial Spaces”
- Second Prize: Jose Wendell Capili, “Short Circuit: Expariate Themes in Philippine Poetry in English”
- Third Prize: Joselito Zulueta, “The Irish Bard”
One-Act Play
- First Prize: No Winner
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: Glenn Sevilla Mas, “The Feline Curse”
Full-Length Play
- First Prize: No Winner
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: No Winner