A PROFESSOR from the Silliman University won first prize in the 2022 Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature under the Short Story in English category.

Ian Carlos Casocot received his sixth Palanca Award for his short story titled “Ceferina in Apartment 2G.”

He won his first Palanca Award in 2002, earning a second prize for his short story, “Old Movies.”

Cosocot again placed second in 2003 for his short story, “The Hero of the Snore Tango” and third prize in 2007 for his children’s short story, “The Last Days of Magic.”

Casocot bagged the first prize in 2008 for his short story, “Things You Don’t Know” and the second prize in 2012 for his short story, “It always breaks my heart a little to see you go.”

Moreover, he won other awards such as the NVM Gonzalez Prize, an Honorable Mention from the 2006 PBBY-Salanga Writer’s Prize, and the Fully-Booked/Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards.

Casocot was longlisted in the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel “Sugar Land.”

In 2017, he was selected as a member of the National Committee on Cinema of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

The 70th Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature will have an awarding ceremony on November 30, 2022.