Antiqueño bags Don Carlos Palanca Award in Literature

The Sunday Inquirer magazine featured Glenn Mas , of Antique as having the Grand Prize in Literature for his one-act play entitled “Her Father's House”. A consistent Palanca Awardee , Mas is a native of San Jose , is currently completing his masteral course in Playwriting as a Ford Foundation International Fellow at the Catholic University of America in Washington D. C.

“Her Father's House” was staged thrice in the U.S. thrice, at the Callan Theatre in Washington D. C. in February 2004; at the Top Floor Theatre in Baltimore , Maryland in April 2004 ;and at the Lion Theatre of Philadelphia on September of the same year.

Dr. Roland Reed, an American Playwright and professor of Mas ' works describes it as a “concrete vividness of art that bring the culture of the Filipino people, specifically of the people of Antique to us in the United States . He is more than a Philippine writer. He is a brilliant interpreter of our world.”

Reed is a writer in residence at the International Stanislavsky Theatre Studio in Washington D.C. , and the Synetic Theatre in Arlington , Va. , in the U.S.

The enterprising Antiqueño artist is also author of “In the Dark” circulated by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House . This book features 3 one-act plays, all of them Palanca Award Winners: “In the Dark”, “Feline Curse” and “Birth of Flight”,

Antique governor Sally Z. Perez sent Mas a congratulatory message, recognizing him as a pride of Antique. The Philippines ' Palanaca Award is the equivalent of the U. S. Pullitzer Prize, an institution of international recognition in Literature and the Arts.