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December 15, 2005

NCCA Bares 2005 Writers Prize Winners

After almost a year of rigorous selection process, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has finally announced the winners of the 2005 NCCA Writers¹ Prize.

The NCCA Writers¹ Prize is a biennial grant awarded to five (5) writers, one for each of the following categories: novel, essay, short story (including children stories), poetry, and translation.

PA on Culture and NCCA Executive Director Cecile Guidote Alvarez said each winner will receive a grant assistance of P250,000 for one year during the writing stage of the project. The output/manuscript will then be submitted to the NCCA for possible publication or may be produced for staging, telecasting, broadcasting, cinema or in any other exhibition.

³This grant, which was first awarded in 2002, is designed to support both amateur and professional writers toward the development of Philippine literature and is in line with our mission to encourage the continuing development of a pluralistic culture by the people themselves,² Alvarez stressed.

The winning writers are Edgar Calabia Samar, instructor of the Kagawaran ng Filipino at the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) for his ³Walong Diyosa ng Pagkakahulog² (Novel); Alvin B. Yapan, instructor of the Filipino Department and School of Humanities at the ADMU,³Sa Paghahanap ng Bagong Anyo para sa Moda ng Panlipunang Realismo: Isang Proyekto ng Labinlimang Kuwento² (Short Story); Rebekah Marahombsar Alawi, associate professor of the English Department at MSU-Marawi City, ³A Rose for Angela (The Muslim Filipino Woman Taking the Word to Create Textual Expressions of her Psyche)² (Essay); Joel M. Toledo, faculty member of Miriam College, ³What Little I Know of Luminosity² (Poetry); and Danton S. Remoto, associate professor of the Department of English at the ADMU, ³Awit Para sa Tuyong Dahon² (Translation).

Trophies and certificates will be handed over to the winners in an awarding ceremony at the NCCA¹s Bulwagang Leandro Locsin on February 24, 2006 in conjunction with the National Arts Month Celebration. # # #

Source:
http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_ncca/pr-writersprizedec2005.php