Palanca Awards returns, honors nearly 60 writers

By Alvin I. Dacanay

Dec 02, 2022 12:13 am

THE Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature ended its two-year hiatus on Wednesday night with its 70th edition honoring nearly 60 writers, including a broadcast journalist, a prize-winning independent filmmaker and a Bacolod-based poet-lawyer.

On the sidelines of the awarding ceremony in Taguig City, Criselda 'Dang' Cecilio-Palanca of awards sponsor Carlos Palanca Foundation told The Manila Times that seeing Filipino writers at the annual literary gathering 'happy to be here, to see each other again' was 'really heartwarming.'

WINNING WRITERS (Foreground, from left) The Carlos Palanca Foundation’s Carlos Palanca 4th, Sylvia Palanca-Quirino, Criselda ‘Dang’ Cecilio-Palanca, Carl Anthony Palanca and Nemesia Bermejo pose for photos with the winners of the 70th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (background) in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. PHOTO BY JOHN RYAN BALDEMOR

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