History
The Palanca Awards was established in 1950 to inspire Filipino writers to improve their literary works. In the 1960s the Palanca Awards Committee started to fund the publication of Palanca plays and production fund were committed on 1975. In 2009, it added a category for Poetry for children in both Filipino and English.
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