Google Doodle celebrates Vietnam’s first female newspaper editor

On Wednesday, Google Doodles commemorates the launch of Vietnam's

, Nu Gioi Chung (Women's Bell), where late poet and writer Suong Nguyet Anh was the main editor.

In commemoration of one of Anh's most famous poems about apricot flowers, Google's homepage doodle included apricot blossoms and

. The search engine archives say Hanoi-based Camelia Pham drew it.

Anh was born in Ben Tre, Mekong Delta, on March 8, 1864. Her father, Nguyen Dinh Chieu, a patriotic teacher, surgeon, and poet from southern Vietnam in the second half of the 19th century, was named a

in November 2021.

Anh became Vietnam's first female

when she wrote for the Nu Gioi Chung newspaper in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, under the pen name Suong Nguyet Anh, meaning "Widowed Nguyet." Nu Gioi Chung debuted on this day in 1918.

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