Paz Márquez-Benítez
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Paz Márquez-Benítez is a Filipina short-story writer.
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She was born on 1894. She is the author of the first Filipino modern English-language short story, Dead Stars, published in the Philippine Herald in 1925. Márquez-Benítez was among the first generation of Filipinos trained in the American education system which used English as the medium of instruction. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912.
Márquez-Benítez later became a teacher at the University of the Philippines, who taught short-story writing and had become an influential figure to many Filipino writers in the English language, such as Loreto-Paras Sulit, Paz M. Latorena, Arturo B. Rotor, Bienvenido N. Santos and Francisco Arcellana. The annually held Paz-Marquez Benitez Lectures in the Philippines honors her memory by focusing on the contribution of Filipino women writers to Philippine Literature in the English language.
