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9 unusual facts about Palanca


Bienvenido Lumbera

He won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Awards from the National Book Foundation, and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards.

He also received several awards citing his contribution to Philippine letters, most notably the 1975 Palanca Award for Literature; the 1993 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts; several National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle; the 1998 Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for Drama; and the 1999 Cultural Center of the Philippines Centennial Honors for the Arts.

Bienvenido Santos

Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for short fiction (1956, 1961 and 1965)

Boholano writers

Also named in the list are the late president of the Republic of the Philippines Carlos P. Garcia who wrote Visayan poems, Palanca awardees Marjorie Evasco and Clovis Nazareno and the Boholano dean of journalism the late Zoilo Dejaresco.

César Ruiz Aquino

Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for poetry (1978, 1997) and short fiction (1979, 1989)

Ruiz Aquino has received Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for poetry (1978, 1997) and short fiction (1979, 1989).

Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Fiction, Essay and the Novel

Hungarian–Romanian war of 1919

On November 13, 1918, the 7th division was the first Romanian Army unit to enter Transylvania at Prisăcani, in the Eastern Carpathians, followed at Palanca by the 1st.

Marjorie Evasco

Evasco has received several Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, National Book Awards from the Manila Critics' Circle, Arinday (Silliman University), Gintong Aklat (Book Development Association of the Philippines) and Philippine Free Press prizes for her poems and essays.


Alberto Segismundo Cruz

1975 Palanca Awards - "Sino ang Bulag at Iba Pang Tula" by Alberto S. Cruz 1975 Palanca Awards

Bento Kangamba

In this sense, and after some time, formed a club whose members were young Cazenga and Palanca, who joined forces and started making games in the friendly province of Luanda.

The Kabuscorp Palanca originated in Cazenga district where the weekends young residents in the neighborhoods of Palanca, Rangel and Cazenga games promoted inter municipal and communal level.

Ginebra San Miguel

Founded originally by the late Carlos Palanca, Sr. as La Tondeña, Inc. (LTI) in 1902 in the district of Tondo, Manila (where its name come from), it manufactures a range of products and carries packaging innovations that satisfy the needs of its target consumers.

J. Neil Garcia

Professor Garcia has won several literary awards including the Palanca and the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle.

Moldova–Ukraine relations

Moldova has not yet transferred to Ukraine the OdessaReni highway section, as well as bordering property in the region of Palanca.

Rene Villanueva

He won the following awards: TOYP, New York Film and TV Festival, First Latin American Video and Film Festival (Columbia), Japan Prize (Preschool Category), Prix Juenesse Winner (Germany), TOYM, CCP, Gawad Collantes, Gantipalang Quezon, National Book Award, and Palanca.

Rizal Avenue

In 2000, during the mayorship of Lito Atienza, the stretch from C.M. Recto Avenue to Palanca Street was turned into a pedestrian-only thoroughfare by laying bricks on the road, with the buildings and the LRT painted as part of an urban renewal project.


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