Today’s Google Doodle is honouring acclaimed Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez on what would have been his 91st birthday. The Economic Times calls him “one of the greatest writers of the Spanish language”.
Once affectionately dubbed "the greatest Colombian who ever lived", Marquez is most well known for his work in the genre of magical realism, in which “the mundane and the fantastic occur with equal plausibility”, says Time magazine.
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