Honoring Marquez on his 91st birth anniversary, Google wrote, “Depicted in today's Doodle is this magical city of Macondo, brought to life by the Colombian author, journalist, and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez (affectionately known as Gabo throughout Latin America) in his book, A Hundred Years of Solitude”.
Described as one of the most popular Spanish-language writers, Gabriel García Marque was born on March 06, 1927.
Gabriel García Marquez was considered as one of the most significant authors of the 20th century.
Gabriel García Marquez. was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gabriel García Marquez wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularising a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations.
García Marquez was a "committed Leftist" throughout his life, adhering to socialist beliefs.Critics often describe the language that García Marquez`s imagination produces as visual or graphic, and he himself explains each of his stories is inspired by "a visual image".
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