Google Honors Gabriel Garcia Marquez With Colorful Daily Doodle
Images via Matthew Cruickshank/Google, Hulton Archive/Getty
On what would’ve been Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 91st birthday, the iconic Colombian author is being honored by Google in a colorful Daily Doodle. The search engine illustrates in its Doodle an animated city of Macondo, a town nestled deep in the Amazon jungle, brought to life by Garcia Marquez in his book One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Doodle was created by animator and artist Matthew Cruickshank.
Known as “Gabo” throughout Latin America, the prolific writer, born in Aracataca, Colombia, was a staple among Spanish-speaking novelists of the 20th century. With a literary career defined by realist prose and political activism, Garcia Marquez dominated the Spanish language, writing over 25 books, including Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
In 1982, Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels and short stories, which captivated readers’ minds by combining magical realism with an accurate reflection of the South American continent’s problems. He died at his home in Mexico City in 2014, at the age of 87.