"...there is no other literary prize in the country that the aura, the distinction, the glory of Premio Zobel. Filipino writers, who write in English and have won the Commonwealth Award, the Palanca or Stonehill do not realize the apotheosis of the awardee. To win a prize is simply news. To win the Premio Zobel is an event. - NICK JOAQUIN NATIONAL ARTIST Let us offer and affirm our devotion to this language, and let be us firm in our efforts to conserve it and propagate it.. for reasons of national pride and honor and mandatory patriotism. .because Spanish is ours, blood of our blood, flesh of our flesh; because that is how our martyrs. heroes and statesmen wanted it to be. - DON CLARO MAYO RECTO STATESMAN "the Premio Zobel has been the only private entity that has imposed itself the duty to rectify one of the colonial errors committed by Spain. During the last 8O years the Premio Zobel has almost single-handedly given assistance and promotion to the future redevelopment of the Spanish language in the Philippine Republic. - DOÑA CARMEN GURRERO NAKPIL WRITER, JOURNALIST FORMER CHAIR OF THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL COMMISSION
