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Philippines. First awarded. 1950. Website. palancaawards.com.ph. The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, popularly known as the Palanca Awards, are a set of literary awards for Philippine writers. Usually referred to as the " Pulitzer Prize of the Philippines," it is the country's highest literary honor in terms of prestige.
Her 1952 short story, (the widely anthologized) The Virgin, won two first prizes: of the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards and of the Palanca Awards. [2] In 1957, she edited an anthology for the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with English and Tagalog prize-winning short stories from 1951 to 1952. [5]
Dean Francis Alfar (born 2 January 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction.His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while his articles and fiction have been published both in his native Philippines and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the Exotic Gothic series.
The founding of Silliman University by Presbyterian missionaries and the Philippine Normal School (PNS) in 1901 and the University of the Philippines (U.P.) in 1908, as well as of English newspapers like the Daily Bulletin (1900), The Cablenews (1902), and the Philippines Free Press (1905), helped boost English usage.
Brillantes is a native of Camiling, Tarlac. He obtained his Litt. B. degree in the Ateneo de Manila University. He has edited Sunburst, The Manila Review, Focus, Asia-Philippines Leader and the Philippines Free Press. Among his published collections of short stories are: The Distance to Andromeda and Other Stories, [ 2][ 3] The Apollo ...
The Philippine National Book Awards, or simply the National Book Awards, is a Philippine literary award sponsored by the National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics' Circle (MCC). It is the national book award of the Philippines. It honours "the most prestigious book titles written, designed, and published in the Philippines."
Danton Relato Remoto (born March 25, 1963) is a Filipino writer, essayist, reporter, editor, columnist, and professor. Remoto received the first prize at the ASEAN Letter-Writing Contest for Young People. The award earned Remoto a scholarship at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. As a professor, Remoto taught English and ...
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry. American Book Awards. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.