ILOILO City – Joining the esteemed roster of the prestigious Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Fame this year is multi-awarded Ilonggo poet, fictionist and author Peter Solis Nery. He clinched the prestigious distinction after winning his fifth first prize for “Punctuation” under the Poetry for Children category in this year’s contest. Winners
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When Ilonggo writer Peter Solis Nery won his first Palanca gold medal for his short story in Hiligaynon in 1998, he was delirious because every writer worth his title covets a Palanca Award, the longest-running and most prestigious literary award in the country that is often called “the Pulitzer Prize of the Philippines.” Did he
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LOS ANGELES-BASED Filipino orthopedic nurse Peter Solis Nery was inducted into the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Fame in an awarding ceremony held at The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City on Saturday night. The 43-year-old Nery, a native of Iloilo province, earned the honor after clinching the top prize in
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Lawyer Rebecca E. Khan may have spent the last eight years reading and writing in highly technical legalese, but that clearly hasn’t stifled her creativity—Khan is the first-place winner in the Short Story in English category at this year’s Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, the country’s most prestigious literary prize. Her winning story “In Transit” is
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MANILA, Philippines – Poet and author Peter Solis Nery joined the esteemed roster of the Palanca Hall of Fame awardees last Saturday after clinching his fifth first prize at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Solis won his first Palanca in 1998 for his short story “Lirio,” which was written in Hiligaynon. In 2007,
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