1990 Palanca Awards - English Division

English Division

Novel

• Grand Prize Winner: Azucena Grajo Uranza, “Bamboo in the Wind"

Short Story

• Special Prizes

Charlson Ong, “A Tropical Winter's Tale”
Vicar Rosales, “Islas”
Isagani R. Cruz, “Once Upon A Time Some Years From Now”
Victorino Manalo, “The Hunting Season”
Isagani R. Cruz, “What I Did Last Summer”

Short Story for Children

• First Prize: Ramon Sunico, “Two Friends, One World”
• Second Prize: Alfred A. Yuson, “The Boy Who Ate the Stars”
• Third Prize: Jaime An Lim, “Yasmin”

Essay

• First Prize: Isagani R. Cruz, “The Other Other: Towards a Post Colonial Poetics”
• Second Prizes: Buenaventura S. Medina Jr., “The Conscious Unconscious”

Eric Gamalinda, “The Unbearable Lightness of EDSA”

• Third Prize: No Winner

Poetry

• First Prize: Ricardo De Ungria, “Body English” and “Decimal Places”
• Second Prizes:

Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., “Pinoy Septych and Other Poems”

Jaime An Lim, “Trios”

Fidelito Cortes, “Waitressing for the Exterminator”

• Third Prizes: Ma. Luisa A. Igloria, “Cartography”

J. Neil C. Garcia, “Fish Wife and Other Poems”

Lina Sagaral Reyes, “Istorya”

One-Act Play

• First Prize: No Winner
• Second Prize: No Winner
• Third Prize: Dean Francis Alfar, “Fragments of Memory”

Full-Length Play

• Honorable Mentions:

Bobby Flores Villasis, “Eidolon”

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, “Retribution”