1996 Palanca Awards

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The 46th 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]

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 (5) 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:

English 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

Filipino Division

Nobela

Grand Prize: Edmund Coronel, Malaybay

Maikling Kwento

First Prize: Levy Balgos Dela Cruz, “Pag-uugat, Pagpapakpak”
Second Prize: Eli Rueda Guieb III, “Kasal”
Third Prize: Jimmuel C. Naval, “Miss Jones”

Maikling Kwentong Pambata

First Prize: Renato Vibiesca, “Ang Tsinelas ni Inoy”
Second Prize: Ma. Corazon Paulina Remegio, “Tuldok”
Third Prize: Rebecca T. Añonuevo, “Ang Mahiyaing Manok”

Tula

First Prize: Roberto T. Añonuevo, “Lupain ng Kapangyarihan”
Second Prize: Rebecca T. Añonuevo, “Bago ang Babae”
Third Prize: Luna Sicat-Cleto, “Bago Mo Ako Ipalaot”

Sanaysay

First Prize: Buenaventura S. Medina Jr., “Tadhana at Talinhaga”
Second Prize: Ma. Stella Valdez, “Nang Binihag ng Titik ang Bibig”
Third Prize: Josephine Barrios, “Pagsusuri at Pagkabighani sa mga Nobela ng Pag-ibig”

Dulang May Isang Yugto

First Prize: Jose Victor Z. Torres, “Huling Panauhin”
Second Prize: Jose Jay B. Cruz, “Ang Mahabang Patlang ay Isang Malaking Katanungan”
Third Prize: Mervin C. Salazar, “Lipad, Narda, Lipad”

Dulang Ganap ang Haba

First Prize: No Winner
Second Prize: Rodolfo C. Vera, “Balanggiga”
Third Prize: Jose Bernard Capino, “Los Indios Bravos”

Dulang Pantelebisyon

First Prize: Rodolfo R. Lana Jr., “Sa Daigdig ng mga Taksil”
Second Prize: Rolando F. Santos, “Closing Time”
Third Prize: Ma. Clarissa Estuar, “Sa Bingit ng Bagong Buhay”

Dulang Pampelikula

First Prize: Rodolfo R. Lana Jr., "Mga Bangka sa Tag-araw"
Second Prize: No Winner
Third Prize: No Winner

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