The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1990 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author):

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
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  , “Fragments of Memory”

Full-Length Play

• Honorable Mentions:

Bobby Flores Villasis, “Eidolon”

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, “Retribution”

Filipino Division

Nobela

• Honorable Mentions

Reynaldo A. Duque, “Gagamba”

Rosauro Dela Cruz, “Kwadresentinyal”

Maikiling Kuwento

• First Prize: Danilo Consumido, “Agam-agam ng Isang Historyador”
• Second Prize: Lav Indico Diaz, “Pula, Puti at Saka Blu, At Marami Pang Kolor”
• Third Prize: Henry Empeno, “Sanlibo't Isang Gabi ng mga Palabas sa Pag-aantay . . .”

Maikling Kuwentong Pambata

• First Prizes: Rene O. Villanueva, “Ang Unang Baboy sa Langit” at “Tungkung Langit at Alunsina”
• Second Prize: Ruben D. Canlas Jr, “Ang mga Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran nina Alegria at Andante sa Bimbolimbo” Visit Personal Page

Reynaldo A. Duque, “Angalo at Aran”

• Third Prizes:

Ramon Sunico, “Mata at Mangga”

Edgardo B. Maranan, “Si Kidlat, Si Kulog, Si Kilot”

Sanaysay

• First Prize: Isagani R. Cruz, “Ang Buhay sa Salamin ng Sining: Ang Kudeta Bilang Texto”
• Second Prize: Josephine Barrios, “Ang Sinderelang Hindi Sinderela”
• Third Prize: Virgilio S. Almario, “Pasyon at Katwiran sa Likod ng Salamin”

Tula

• First Prize: Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo, “Anyaya ng Imperyalista”
• Second Prize: Romulo P. Baquiran Jr., “Baryo”
• Third Prize: Lilia Quindoza Santiago, “Ordinaryo at Iba pang Tula”

Dulang May Isang Yugto

• First Prize: Chris Millado, “Usapang Babae”
• Second Prize: Rosauro Dela Cruz, “Ang Pagliliwanag ng Isip ni Cecillo Segismundo”
• Third Prize: Bienvenido Noriega Jr., “Naikuwento Lang sa Akin”

Dulang Ganap ang Haba

• First Prize: Bienvenido Noriega Jr., “Deuterium”
• Second Prize: Manuel R. Buising, “Lista sa Tubig”
• Third Prize: Rene O. Villanueva, “Botong”

Dulang Pantelebisyon

• First Prizes:

Emmanuel Q. Palo, “Ang Pagbabalik ni Kiwada”

Manuel R. Buising, “Patay-Bata”

• Second Prize: Eli Rueda Guieb III, ”Pilat”
• Third Prizes:

Melchor Salandanan Ventura, “Mrs. Raquel V. Matias”

Jovenal Velasco, “Si Tomboy atbp."

• Honorable Mentions

Rolando S. Salvana, “Spirit”

Elsa Martinez Coscolluela, “Without Ceremony”