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Carlos Palanca Award 2001

Essay
Carlos Palamca memorial awards for literature
 Established in 1950 in memory of Don Carlos
Palanca, Sr.
 Aims to promote education and culture 
through literature
Don Carlos Palanca, Sr.
 Also known as “Tan Quin Lay”
 Prominent businessman and donor to educational
institutions
Queena N. Lee-Chua PH. D (author)
 “Corgito Ergo Sum or What I know for sure I
learned from Mathematics”
 Full professor at ADMU (her alma mater)
 Summa Cum Laude, BS Mathematics in 1987
 Written more than 40 books
 First person to receive the Third World Academy
of Sciences Regional Prize for Public
Understanding of Science
SOME OF HER NOTABLE RECOGNITIONS
INCLUDE:
Carlos Palanca Award 2006
Poetry
Prose poem
 Appears as prose, but reads like poetry
Lacks line breaks associated with poetry but still
maintains:
o Poetic quality
o Fragmentation
o Compression
o Repetition and rhyme
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
 Poet and essayist (Cebu, Ph)
 Master of fine arts in creative writing (poetry)
[Washington university in St. Louis]
 Master of fine arts in nonfiction writing [university
of iowa]
The highest hiding place
 Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award
o The academy of American poets prize
o The Philippine free press awards
o The don Carlos palanca memorial
awards

 The TOYF (The outstanding young Filipinos) Five fregments: A confession

 The TOWNS (The Outstanding Women in the
 Part of the “the highest hiding place”
Nation’s Service)
 metaphorical and has elements of prose
 The Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Teachers
 poem that deals with both coming out and coming
Award)
of age issues
 The DOST’s great men and women of science
 The OYS (Outstanding Young Scientists)
 Jose Rizal Awards for Excellence

COGITO ERGO SUM OR WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE I

LEARNED FROM MATHMATICS
 Won 1st place in the Palanca Awards for essay
in 2001
 Won the National Book Awards for Anthology
 A personal essay from the POV and experiences
of Dr. Lee as a college professor helping a
particular student