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Google has honored activist and Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, on what would have been his 91st birthday, with a Doodle.
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The tech giant elected to celebrate the revered South American writer and journalist with an illustration, which bears interpretive elements from a fictional city, Macondo, featured in the author's A Hundred Years of Solitude.
The doodle seemingly borrows from Macondo, centering heavily on realism and honoring Marquez' culture with a man and a woman clad in traditional Latin American attire amid flora and fauna.
The political activist is also known as Gabo was once fondly coined “the greatest Colombian who ever lived.”
Marquez novels embrace ethereal, whimsical and fantastical components to explore fallen angels, carnivals, magic carpets and levitating clergymen.
The wordsmith had stated that he drew inspiration from Latin American history.
“We have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable,” he remarked during his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Marquez is the first Colombian and fourth Latin American author to win in that category.
He is best known for his works such as Love in the Time of Cholera as well as non-fiction work News of a Kidnapping. Marquez has written more than two dozen books which result in him featuring prominently among notable scribes.
According to Al Jazeera, Marquez had devoted much of his life to left-wing causes, lending his name, time as well as donating money. He was a known supporter of Sandinistas, a friend to late former Cuban President Fidel Castro as well as a documenter of late former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
He was subjected to travel restrictions by the United States.
Garcia Marquez, who died four years ago in Mexico, hails from in Aracataca in Colombia.
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