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Google Doodle honors Mexican author Alfonso Reyes

It's Alfonso Reyes' 129th birthday and Google made him a doodle just for the occasion.

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Thursday's Google Doodle riffs on Alfonso Reyes' surrealist work La Cena.

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Google is wishing a happy 129th birthday to Mexican author and diplomat Alfonso Reyes via Google Doodle on Thursday.

Reyes, who was born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1889, is known for a surrealist work of fiction called La Cena, among other writings. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

He died in 1959.