oogle honors Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Tuesday by featuring the author on its Doodle on what would have been his 91st birthday.
Born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927, the author was known for his works in the genre of magical realism. Inspired by Latin American history, his stories reflected the mundane and the fantastic with equal plausibility, according to Time.
Marquez had started out as a journalist, where he spent more than a decade in the industry, becoming a reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent and editor. He later moved to Mexico City with his family and launched a career as a novelist.
Among his greatest works include One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in 1967 and became a touchstone for magical realism and launched his career to an international stage.
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Google's Doodle on Tuesday featured Marquez's silhouette on the left end of the image with his wild imagination as poured in his novels spread behind him as if stretching out from his mind. Taking center stage are the colorful Amazonian jungle and the magical city of Macondo, both of which were featured in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novel that marked a defining moment for literature in the 20th century.
Other aspects present in Marquez's books were also included in the Doodle, such as the city of mirrors, mysterious gypsies and fish made of pure gold.
Throughout his career as an author, Marquez published more than 25 books, including standouts such as The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and The Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). He also produced many acclaimed short-stories, as well as non-fiction works and screenplays.
Marquez died in Mexico on April 17, 2014. (liz/kes)
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