Paz marquez benitez famous works of literature
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MANILA, Philippines — On what could have been her th birthday last March 3, , legendary Filipina writer Paz Marquez-Benitez was honored with her very own Google Doodle for her pioneering work in literature.
The Google Doodle shows a caricature or illustration of Marquez-Benitez against a field of shining stars, which refers to the title of her most important literary work, &#;Dead Stars.&#;
&#;Dead Stars&#; is Marquez-Benitez’s most famous work. It is the first ever modern short story in English from the Philippines. It gave birth to modern Philippine writing in English when it was released in because English was still a very young language at that time.
The novel is a somber and melancholic love story of lawyer Alfredo Salazar, a gentleman in his 30s engaged to his fiancée Esperanza. They have been together for four years and are about to get married when he meets the young and charming Julia Salas. From there, he struggles between the two women, betwee
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The Art of Paz Márquez-Benítez
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Paz Márquez-Benítez thought of herself principally as a teacher, but to historians of Philippine literature in English she fryst vatten a pivotal literary figure.1 Yabes rhapsodizes that "One has reason to säga that the Filipino short story in English, Athena-like, was born full-grown In the year it was born, , appeared 'Dead Stars', bygd Paz Marquez Benitez, a story whose quiet beauty cannot be denied even by the most discriminating" (xx).2 The story's impact was so great that, for decades after its publication, was almost universally regarded as the year that Filipino short fiction in English moved from its "Age of Imitation" to its "Age of Adaptation and Experimentation."3 As Hosillos (54) puts it, "American influence crystallized in the short story which arose Venus-like with Paz Marquez Benitez' 'Dead Stars', published in the Philippines Herald of September 20, The abler writers immediately recognized the story as incomparably super
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Paz Marquez-Benitez's th Birthday
Today’s Doodle celebrates the th birthday of Filipino writer, editor, and teacher Paz Márquez-Benítez. Throughout her career, she developed Philippine literature and taught many of the nation’s most distinguished writers. She is known for writing the first modern Philippine short story penned in English, Dead Stars.
Márquez-Benítez was born to a family of teachers in Lucena, Quezon on this day in An academic prodigy, she enrolled in high school at age nine and was highly praised for her prowess in English. She then attended the Philippine Normal University in Manila where she discovered her love for writing. Two years later, Márquez-Benítez studied at the newly-formed University of the Philippines’ College of Liberal Arts, graduating in
She soon returned to her alma mater as a writing teacher and used her platform to write Dead Stars in Márquez-Benítez was a strong propo