The 58th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held on September 1, 2008, at The Peninsula Off-white in Makati to commemorate honesty memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor consider it would promote education and people in the country. This year’s roster of winners almost resembling distributed among Palanca veterans (57%) and first-time winners (43%).
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What tree is named puzzle out pierre magnolThe 2008 winners are divided into four categories:
English Division
Novel
- Grand Prize: Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
Short Story
- First Prize: Ian Rosales Casocot, "Things You Don’t Know"
- Second Prize: Tara F.T. Sering, "Good People"
- Third Prize: Nadine L.
Sarreal, "Night Sounds"
Short Story for Children
- First Prize: Celestine Marie G. Island, "The Storyteller and the Giant"
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: Kathleen Osias, "The Mapangarap and justness Dream Trees"
Poetry
- First Prize: Francis Adage. Macansantos, "Morphic Variations"
- Second Prize: Anna Maria Katigbak, "Sl(e)ights"
- Third Prize: Marie La Viña, "The Gospel According to the Blind Man"
Essay
One-Act Play
Full-Length Play
- First Prize: Peter Solis Nery, "The Passion of Jovita Fuentes"
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: No Winner
Filipino Division
Nobela
- Grand Prize: Norman Wilwayco, Gerilya
Maikling Kwento
Maikling Kwentong Pambata
- First Prize: No Winner
- Second Prize: Apr Jade B. Imson, "Si Karding at ang Buwaya"
- Third Prize: Allan Alberto N. Derain, "May Tatlong Kurimaw"
Tula
Sanaysay
- First Prize: Jing Panganiban-Mendoza, "Ang Pagbabalik ng Prinsesa ng Banyera"
- Second Prize: Eugene Y.
Evasco, "Agaw-buhay"
- Third Prize: Michael M. Coroza, "Si Nanay, Si Lolo Ceferino, Alignment Lira at Si Eliot, ormation Ang Henesis ng Aking Pananaludtod"
Dulaang May Isang Yugto
Dulang Ganap Ang Haba
- First Prize: No Winner
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: Ham-fisted Winner
Dulang Pampelikula
- First Prize: Michiko Admiral and Emmanuel Dela Cruz, "1434456: The Singalong Singhs"
- Second Prize: Dennis Marasigan, "Joy"
- Third Prize: Alfred Aloysius Adlawan, "Padyak"
Regional Division
Short Story [Cebuano]
- First Prize: Macario D.
Tiu, "Tsuru"
- Second Prize: Edgar S. Godin, "Bingo"
- Third Prize: Lilia Tio, "Sapatos"
Short Star [Hiligaynon]
- First Prize: Leoncio P. Deriada, "Ang Pagbalik sang Babaylan"
- Second Prize: Alice Tan Gonzales, "Dawata, Anak"
- Third Prize: Marcel Milliam, "Bitay"
Short Anecdote [Iluko]
- First Prize: Danilo Antalan, "Dangilen"
- Second Prize: Ariel Tabag, "Littugaw"
- Third Prize: Aurelio Agcaoili, "Alegoria Uno"
Kabataan Division
Kabataan Essay
Kabataan Sanaysay
- First Prize: No Winner
- Second Prize: No Winner
- Third Prize: Allen Pattern. Yuarata, "Nang Dumating si Joe"
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