The 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize Winner

Announcing the winner of the 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize:

Gabriela Lee wins the 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize

This year’s grand prize winner of the PBBY-Salanga Prize is writer Gabriela Lee for her creative nonfiction piece, A Delicate Strength: The Story and Art of Araceli Limcaco Dans. The piece is about how the young Araceli or Cely learns to capture the beauty of everything she sees through her drawings and how her art helped her family and the country, during wartime.

Araceli Limcaco Dans is one of the most influential Filipino visual artists, known for her her portraiture, still life, and her depiction ofcalado embroidery in her paintings. 

This is Lee’s first PBBY-Salanga Grand Prize. Her poetry and fiction have been published in the Philippines, Singapore, the United States, and Australia. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of the Philippines. She is one of Dans’ twenty-nine grandchildren.

Lee will be awarded at the 36^th National Children’s Book Day celebration on July 16, 2019.

For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY Secretariat at telephone number 352-6765 loc 204 or e-mailsecretariat@pbby.org.ph.  

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