Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 3) — Google Doodle paid tribute to acclaimed Filipina writer and educator Paz Márquez-Benítez on her 129th birthday.
On Friday, the tech giant temporarily replaced the logo on its homepage with a doodle of the late author, who wrote the country’s first modern English short story, titled \”Dead Stars\” and published in 1925.
She is also known for teaching a number of the country’s most distinguished writers.
Clicking the Google illustration redirects to the usual search results page on Márquez-Benítez, which includes an information panel created by the company specifically for her birthday.
Márquez-Benítez was born on March 3, 1894 in Lucena, Quezon.
She studied at the Philippine Normal University in Manila and, two years later, at the newly established University of the Philippines’ (UP) College of Liberal Arts where she graduated in 1912.
The literary figure became a professor at UP and also helped found the Philippine Women’s University.
