--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Spanish Writer Maria Zambrano description: On this day in 1988, she became the first female recipient of Spanish-language literature's top honor, the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. canonical: https://time.com/4751906/google-doodle-maria-zambrano/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-24T02:35:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:02.420Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Spanish Writer Maria Zambrano og:description: She received the top honor in Spanish literature on this day in 1988. og:url: https://time.com/4751906/google-doodle-maria-zambrano/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf68ec86c3365bdf3/6988c4198fd2eebdba356b83/celebrating-maria-zambrano-4806434435891200-2x.jpg?branch=production&width=711&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 711 og:image:height: 400 og:image:alt: celebrating-maria-zambrano-4806434435891200-2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Spanish Writer Maria Zambrano twitter:description: She received the top honor in Spanish literature on this day in 1988. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf68ec86c3365bdf3/6988c4198fd2eebdba356b83/celebrating-maria-zambrano-4806434435891200-2x.jpg?branch=production&width=711&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Has A New Doodle Celebrating the Spanish Writer and Thinker Maria Zambrano > Sponsored content. 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Zambrano was associated with the Generation of 1936 literary movement, a collection of “artists, poets, and playwrights who documented the experiences of creative people during the tumultuous times of the Spanish Civil War,” [according to](https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-maria-zambrano) Google. “It’s nearly impossible to distill Zambrano’s layered ideologies into just a few words,” remarked Google. Known for her thinking on various aspects of the human condition, as well as explorations into all topics from the political to the poetic and the spiritual, Google contended that Zambrano is “perhaps most famous” for combining all these areas into “a means to understand a new reality” — what she called “poetic reason.” Poetic reason, according to Google, “applies human emotion and creativity to traditional rational and logical modes of thought, in order to give a new voice of truth to the human experience.” In the Doodle, Zambrano sits on a window surrounded by potted plants, with a pen in her hand, a notebook open in her lap and a dog by her side. 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