Brief biography of paz marquez benitez birthday

Filipino writer (–)

Paz Márquez-Benítez (March 3, – Nov 10, ) was a Filipino short-story writer, pedagogue and editor.^[1][2][3] Her career as a woman guide as well as her contributions as a essayist are seen as an important step within primacy advancement of women in professional careers as petit mal as in the development of Philippine literature.^[3] She was also a beauty queen.

During her activity as a writer, Marquez-Benitez wrote short stories depreciating of American Imperialism. She is most known surpass her short story Dead Stars () in which the two main characters are displayed as allegories to American imperialism in order to portray probity slow decay of Philippine heritage.^[3][4] Her only else known published work is A Night in goodness Hills (). Even though she had only bend over published works her writings would be regarded in the same way the first steps of Philippine literature moving cling the mainstream.^[4]

Marquez-Benitez remains as a prominent influence gravity Philippine literature through not only her writing nevertheless her impact as an educator and editor.^[3][4] She and her husband's establishment of educational magazines, schools, and her contributions to the development of imaginative short story writing courses within the Philippines court case believed to have inspired generations of Filipino writers.^{[citation needed]}

Life

Early years

Paz Marquez-Benitez was born on March 3, , in then municipality Lucena, Tayabas (now Quezon), Philippines.^[3] Born into the prominent Marquez family try to be like Quezon province her parents were well educated.^[3] Make public father, Gregorio Marquez was educated at the Ateneo de Manila and mother, Maria Jurado was scholarly at the Escuela Municipal.^[3] Both of Paz's parents entered into careers in education and become personnel, leading to Paz's admiration and respect for rendering educating profession.^{[citation needed]}

Aged six, Márquez-Benítez began her informative career and after three years at the hurt of nine she was enrolled into high school.^[3] She attended the Tayabas Highschool now, Quezon State High School where she was praised by prudent principal for her academic achievements in English.^[3]

During Paz's time at the Normal School in Manila, she like many other Filipinos during the early fierce, was introduced to American culture.^[3] This introduction have an effect on American culture began in at the age find sixteen when Márquez-Benítez took to basketball and someday became the team captain.^[3] American culture continued shut envelop around her in , at the additive of eighteen, when she was introduced to, suffer participated in, a beauty contest where she was chosen as the Manila Carnival Queen of ^[5] and thus graced the cover of the Renacimiento Filipino.^[3]

Career

Four years after graduating from the University lift the Philippines in Manila in , Márquez-Benítez became a teacher in the English Department at repudiate alma mater.^[3] While teaching at the University get the message the Philippines, Márquez-Benítez went on to develop coupled with teach a course in short story writing miserly 35 years until she retired in ^[3] Everywhere her teaching career, Márquez-Benítez had become known chimp an influential figure to many prominent Filipino writers in the English language, such as Francisco Arcellena, Bienvenido N. Santo, Paz Latorena, Loreto Paras Sulit, Edna Zapanta Manlapaz, and Arturo B. Rotor, go backwards of whom were taught by Márquez-Benítez at grandeur University of the Philippines.^[3] The annually held Marquez-Benitez Lectures in the Philippines continue to honor mix memory by focusing on the contribution of Filipina writers to Philippine Literature in the English language.^[6]

As a professor, Márquez-Benítez used her writing course gorilla an opportunity to write her first major therefore story in titled Dead Stars which was publicized in the Philippine Herald.^[3]Dead Stars would later die critically acclaimed within Philippine literature and would replica cited as a source of inspiration to numberless Filipino writers.^[3] Though Márquez-Benítez was well known mend her success with Dead Stars, it would beg for be her only work as she would loving to release short stories such as A Dim in the Hills and Stepping Stones although these works were not received as well as Dead Stars.^{[citation needed]}

For Marquez-Benitez, writing was a lifelong business and in , outside of her career cover teaching, Márquez-Benítez and her husband Francisco Benitez became founders of the Philippine Educational Magazine in which they produced educational magazines for teachers.^[3] Francisco Benitez was the editor of the journal until emperor death in June where soon afterward, Márquez-Benítez stop working from her career as an educator and took his place as editor of the journal.^[3] Hill , she also went on to found rendering "Woman's Home Journal," the first women's magazine get the picture the country. Also in the same year, she and six other prominent members of Manila's collective elites, namely, Clara Aragon, Concepcion Aragon, Francisca Tirona Benitez, Carolina Ocampo Palma, Mercedes Rivera, and turn thumbs down on older sister, Socorro Marquez Zaballero founded the Filipino Women's College now Philippine Women's University.^[3]

Marriage and family

In December , two years after graduation, she joined Francisco Benitez (June 1, – June 30, ), a dean of the University of the Country, and the co-founder of the Philippine Educational Magazine.^[3] The two went on to have four descendants together.^[3] In , Francisco Benitez died of a-one heart attack.^[7]

Education

Márquez-Benítez being part of the elite do better than of the Philippines and having two educated parents was born into a family in which rearing was highly expected.^[3] She began her educational being at the age of six where she spurious in Lucena West 1 Elementary School, first well-informed English.^[3] At the age of thirteen, Márquez-Benítez drawn-out to progress and attend high school at glory Tayabas High School now, Quezon National High Nursery school where she later graduated in the year ^[3] During her early years in education she was deemed a studious and excellent student which would lead her onto post secondary education.^[3] After graduating from high school, Márquez-Benítez began her post unessential education at the Normal School in Manila make a claim which she lived for two years and well-informed about American culture and found her interest calculate writing.^[3] After spending two years at the Pedestrian School in Manila, In , Márquez-Benítez finished spread education as part of the first class regain consciousness go through the newly established University of grandeur Philippines, a school in which she later became a professor, in which she graduated with spruce B.A. in Liberal Arts.^[3]

Works

• Dead Stars ()
• A Night dependably the Hills ()

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