The 5th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country.^[1]

LIST OF WINNERS

The 1955 winners, the fifth recipients of the awards, were divided into four categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story and one-act play:

• First Prize: Juan C. Tuvera, "Ceremony"
• Second Prize: Edith L. Tiempo, "The Dam"
• Third Prize: Virgilio R. Samonte, "The Other Woman"

• First Prize: Magtanggol Asa, "The Long Dark Night"
• Second Prize: Antonio O. Bayot, "Among the Faithless"
• Third Prize: Jose M. Hernandez, "White Sunday"

• First Prize: Genoveva Edroza-Matute, "Paglalayag sa Puso ng Isang Bata"
• Second Prize: Elpidio P. Kapulong, "Batingaw"
• Third Prize: Virgilio Blones, "Lumamig na Bakal"

• First Prize: Fidel Sicam and Purita Sicam, "Pitong Taon"
• Second Prize: Clodualdo Del Mundo, "May Ningning ang Kinabukasan"
• Third Prize: Fernando L. Samonte, "Kamatayan, Iba't ibang Anyo"

• "The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature | Winners 1955". Archived from the original on 2009-10-22.