Palanca Awards for Literature recap

       They held the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature last week, the Philippnes' 'most prestigious and longest-running literary contest', and while the official site doesn't have the results yet (sigh ...), you can fin all the winners here, for example. (They only hand out the 'grand prizes', for best novel (one in English, one in Tagalog) every three years, so we have to wait another two until that one is awarded again.)
       Now Alfred A. Yuson also offers a recap, Reliving the tradition: The 62nd Palanca Awards, in The Philippine Star -- quoting that:

For this year's Palanca Awards, we received a total number of 1,077 entries in 20 categories. 57 judges awarded prizes to 59 winning works from 58 authors, 29 of whom are former winners, and an equal number of 29 who are new winners.

       Sounds like there's some literary enthusiasm there .....