| Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature | |
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Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature |
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| Awarded for | Excellence in literary works |
| Country | Philippines |
| First awarded | 1950 |
| Official website | www.palancaawards.com.ph |
The Palanca Awards or Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is the Philippines' most prestigious and most enduring literary awards and is dubbed as the "Pulitzer Prize" of the Philippines.[1] It is one of the Philippines' most prestigious and long-running award giving bodies.[2]
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The Palanca Awards was established in 1950 to inspire Filipino writers to improve their literary works.[3] In the 1960s the Palanca Awards Committee started to fund the publication of Palanca plays and production fund were committed on 1975.[4] In 2009, it added a category for Poetry for children in both Filipino and English.[2]
As of the 60th awards year, for which the call for submissions opened on March 1, 2010 (ended April 30, 2010) , contestants may submit one entry each in the following categories:
English Division
Filipino Division
Regional Languages Division
Kabataan Division (Open only to those below 18 years of age)
Palanca Awardees by year:
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The Palanca Hall of Fame was established in 1995 and is presented to a Palanca awardee who already won five first prizes in the regular categories.
The current Palanca Hall of Fame awardees are: