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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 ─ It was a celebration of excellence and tradition as the 67th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards) honored the winners at The Peninsula Manila in Makati City.
Fifty-one names, 23 of which were first-time awardees, emerged as this year’s batch of winners. There were also four contenders who each took home prizes in two separate categories. The bi-annual Novel and Nobela were open this year, bringing the total number of categories to 22. The Awards’ organizer and sponsor, Carlos Palanca Foundation, Inc., handpicked an elite roster of literary personalities to evaluate the submissions.
This year’s awarding ceremony had as speaker and guest of honor decorated writer and professor Dr. Jose “Butch” Y. Dalisay, Jr.It was a homecoming of sorts for Dalisay, himself a 16-time Palanca awardee and a Hall of Famer at that. Dalisay was conferred the Gawad Dangal ng Lahi for his contributions to the literary scene, including books of his stories, plays, and essays, screenplays, and biographies.
Named after businessman and philanthropist Don Carlos Palanca, Sr., the Palanca Awards continuously seeks to cultivate Philippine Literature by rewarding writers. It also serves as a treasury of these Philippine liter
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2. 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐎: Bata, Hiwaga, Bansa: Pamana ni Rene O. Villanueva sa Panitikang Pambata nina City Y. Evasco at Cheeno Mario M. Sayuno
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Shweta Ganesh Kumar shared with me this TED Talk from novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about how "a single story" about another person or country can cause critical misunderstanding, and I felt that the talk really reflected why I started this blog. Please watch it below, if you haven't already: I sometimes teach creative writing to children and teens and have been very shocked to see that the first impulse of my students - all Filipinos or Chinese Filipinos ages 11-15 - is to write stories featuring characters with blond hair and blue eyes. It seems that, like the seven-year-old Adichie, my students have "a single story" about what literature is and do not think that people like them can exist in literature. (Needless to say, I am now trying to expose my students to more Filipino literature and literature from other Asian countries.) I blog because our students, nieces and nephews, children, grandchildren, and godchildren NEED AND DESERVE more than "a ...