Palanca Awards

• The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature are literary awards of the Philippines.

• The Manila Standard called it the "Pulitzer Price" of the Philippines in terms of prestige.

• The Palanca Awards, organized by the Carlos Palanca Foundation.

• One of the Philippines' longest-running awards programs.

• The Palanca Awards was established in 1950

• In the 1960s, the Palanca Awards Committee started to fund the publication of Palanca Award-winning plays.

• production funds were committed in 1975. 

• In 2009, it added a category for poetry for children, in both Filipino and English.

CategoriesStarting on the 60th awards year, for which the call for submissions opened on March 1, 2010 (ended April 30, 2010), contestants could submit one entry each in the following categories:

English Division• Short Story• Short Story for Children• Essay• Poetry• Poetry Written for Children• One-act Play• Full-length Play

Filipino Division• Maikling Kuwento (Short Story in Filipino)• Maikling Kuwentong Pambata (Short Story for

Children in Filipino)• Sanaysay (Essay in Filipino)• Tula (Poetry in Filipino)• Tulang Isinulat Para sa mga Bata (Poetry for

Children in Filipino)• Dulang May Isang Yugto (One-act Play in

Filipino)• Dulang Ganap ang Haba (Full-length Play in

Filipino)• Dulang Pampelikula (Screenplay in Filipino)

Regional Languages Division

• Short Story in Cebuano• Short Story in Hiligaynon• Short Story in Iluko

Kabataan Division

• Kabataan Essay• Kabataan Sanaysay

1951 Palanca AwardsThe Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1951 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author). Open only in English and Tagalog Short Story, these are the first recipient winners of the Awards.

English DivisionShort Story• 1st Prize: "Clay" by Juan T. Gatbonton• 2nd Prize: "The Flowers of May" by

Francisco Arcellana• 3rd Prize: "The Black Monkey" by

Edith L. Tiempo

Filipino (Tagalog) DivisionShort Story in Filipino• 1st Prize: "Kuwento ni Mabuti" by

Genoveva Edroza Matute• 2nd Prize: "Mabangis na Kamay,

Maamong Kamay" by Pedro S. Dandan• 3rd Prize: "Planeta, Buwan at mga

Bituin" by Elpidio P. Kapulong

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