UPDATED 23 Julio 2008. Para kadagiti makisalip, downloaden iti KWF website ti formulario ti Gawad Collantes sadiay ket isu pay laeng ti aramaten para iti Gawad Komisyon para iti Iloko. Daytoy ti inlawlawag ti secretariat ti salip iti MMSU-Batac. 

Naluktanen ti Gawad Komisyon 2008, salip iti panagsuratan nga isponsoran ti Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) para iti panangselebrar ti Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa itoy a tawen.

Maaramid ti salip kadagiti sumaganad a pagsasao: 1) Sugbuanong Binisaya (sugilanon ken balak), 2) Iloko (ababa a sarita ken salaysay), 3) Hiligaynon (ababa a sarita ken daniw), 4) Waray (kalipot nga istorya ken siday balakwa), 5 Pangasinan (anlong ken ababa a sarita), 6) Kapampangan (ababa a sarita ken daniw),  ken 7) Bikol (ababa a sarita ken daniw).

Dagiti Pagalagadan:

1.    Silulukat daytoy a salip kadagiti amin a mannurat, ngem saan a mabalin a makisalip dagiti empleado ti KWF ken dagiti kabagianda.

2.    Para ti Gawad Komisyon a maisurat iti Filipino, dagiti datin a nakisalip a nangabak iti umuna ken maikadua a premio iti agsasaruno a tawen ket mabalinda laeng ti makisalip manen kalpasan ti dua a tawen.

3.    Dagiti piesa ket masapul nga orihinal, saan a naipatarus manipud iti sabali a pagsasao, saan pay a nangabak iti ania man a nangato a premio, ken saan pay a naipablaak iti magasin wenno internet.

4.    Awan ti ania man a pakabigbigan iti piesa uray pay nagan ti nangaramid.  Adda pormulario a maala iti KWF wenno iti http//wika.pbwika.com para iti nagan, adres ken dadduma pay nga impormasion. Masapul a nakanotario ti pormulario.

5.    Ti tema para ti salaysay iti Iloko ket “Ti Pagsasaom, Ti Pagsasao a Filipino, Ti Pagsasao Ti Lubong, Napateg!” (Wika Mo, Wikang Filipino, Wika ng Mundo, Mahalaga!), wenno ania man a tema maipanggep iti panagduduma dagiti pagsasao ken kultura iti Filipinas.

6.    Siwayawaya a pumili dagiti makisalip iti temada para ti salip ti panagsurat iti ababa a sarita iti Iloko.

7.    Agatiddog ti salaysay iti 15 agingga ti 30 a panid.  Para iti ababa a sarita, 10 agingga ti 20 a panid.  Masapul a maimakinilia wenno maikompiuter (Font 12-Arial), dagiti pakisalip, doble espasio iti 8 ½  X 11 a bond paper. Maysa a pulgada ti margin iti ngato, kanawan ken baba, maysa ket gudua a pulgada iti kanigid.  Masapul nga agsasaruno a bilang ti panid iti tengnga a baba kada panid.

8.    Masapul a mangted iti 4 a hard copy ken maysa nga electronic file (iti format nga MS Word document) ti tunggal makisalip.

9.    Maysa laeng a piesa kada kategoria ti mabalin nga ited ti tunggal makisalip.

10.    Dagiti premio kada kategorya: Umuna a  Gunggona:  Php 15,000.00 ken tropeo; Maikadua a Gunggona: Php 10,000.00 ken tropeo; Maikatlo a Gunggona: Php 8,000.00 ken tropeo; ken Tallo a  Konsolasion a Gunggona a sag-Php 2,000.00 ken sertipiko.

Amin a piesa a pakisalip ket umawatto ti Pammaneknek ti Pannakisalip iti aldaw a maited ti piesa iti opisina ti KWF.

11.    Pinal ti pangngeddeng dagiti hurado ket saan a mabalin a protestaan.  Amin a piesa a mangabak ket agbalin a kukua ti KWF ket karbenganna nga ipablaak dagitoy nga awan ti awaten a royalty dagiti nagsurat.

12.    Ipatulod wenno ited a personal ti piesa sakbay ti alas-5:00 ti malem inton Agosto 18, 2008.  No ipatulod babaen ti e-mail, iraman ti maysa a piesa (iti format nga MS Word document) ken kasta met ti sinungbatan ken pinirmaan a pormulario ti KWF.

Ipatulod  dagiti pakisalip iti:

Panrehyong Sentro ng Wikang Filipino R-1
CETC Bldg., Mariano Marcos State University
Batac City 2906 Ilocos Norte,  Philippines

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Para iti dadduma pay nga impormasion, agemail wenno umawag iti telepono iti numero a 792-4141. (dln)

In the English division, the winners are: Jose Marte A. Abueg (poetry, for his collection, “ Bird Lands , River Nights and Other Melancholies”); Criselda D. Yabes (fiction and creative nonfiction, for her novel, “Below the Crying Mountain,” and her nonfiction narrative, “Sarena's Story: The Loss of a Kingdom”).

In the Filipino division, the winners are: Jerry B. Gracio (poetry, for his collection, “Aves”); Jose Rey Munsayac (fiction, for his novel, “Duguang Kamay sa Nilulumot na Pader”; and Lualhati M. Abreu (creative nonfiction, for “Agaw Dilim, Agaw Liwanag”).

There is only one grand prize of P200,000 for each of the six categories. Award ceremonies will be held on Tuesday, July 8, at 4:30 pm at the Pulungang Claro M. Recto, Faculty Center , UP Diliman. The affair is open to the public.

All entries to the contest were book-length, previously unpublished work. The double winner, Yabes, is a U.P. Journalism graduate, and a freelance journalist and writer. She has worked for AP, Reuters, Newsweek, The Washington Post , and The Economist ; and has written three other books including one on the coup d'etats of the 1980s, her personal sojourn in Europe, and the almost extinct Pala'wan syllabary.

Abueg, a graduate of the UP School of Economics , is managing editor of INQUIRER.net as well as overall editor, in charge of INQUIRER.net Money website. He has won other awards, like the Carlos Palanca Awards and the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards.

Gracio, a U.P. Malikhaing Pagsulat alumnus, is a writer of screenplays, and won a National Book Award in 2006 for Apokripos. Abreu does research work and writing for non-government organizations in Metro Manila and Mindanao . Munsayac, editor of the weekly Bulacan paper Dyaryong Pilipino Luzon Times, shared the first prize with Jun Cruz Reyes in the 1998 National Centennial Literary Awards for his novel, “Ang Aso, ang Pulgas, ang Bonsai at ang Kolorum.”

The U.P. Centennial Commission set up and funded the Gawad Likhaan as part of the UP Centennial Celebrations, to highlight the University's contribution to the advancement of Philippine letters, through the prestigious UP National Writers Workshop held by the UP Institute of Creative Writing; its various ground-breaking publications; and the creative writing programs which have produced so many of the country's writers.

The contest was administered by the UP Institute of Creative Writing. Members of the panel of judges were: J. Neil C. Garcia, Ricardo M. de Ungria, and Gémino H. Abad (poetry in English); Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Charlson Ong, and Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio (fiction in English); Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr., Rosario Cruz Lucero, and Vicente Garcia Groyon (creative nonfiction in English); National Artist Virgilio S. Almario, Vim Nadera, and Romulo Baquiran, Jr. (tula); Jun Cruz Reyes, Roland Tolentino, and Soledad Reyes (nobela o maikling katha); and National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera, Fanny Garcia, and Nicanor Tiongson (sanaysay).

The major sponsor of the Award ceremonies is the Book Development Association of the Philippines through its president, Lirio Sandoval. Other sponsors are the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, San Miguel Corporation, and Tanduay Distillers. (naadaw iti panitikan.com.ph)