Which among the following are true in the context of Gabriel García Márquez?
A) He was a Caribbean novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist.
B) He was affectionately known as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
C) He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
D) Love in the Time of Cholera is a Memoir written by Márquez.
E) His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer :
B, C and E only.
Solution :
The correct option is B, C and E only.
Let us analyze each of the statements to understand why this is the correct choice:
Statement A: "He was a Caribbean novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist."
While Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia (a town near the Caribbean coast), and many of his works are deeply rooted in the Caribbean culture and landscape, he is primarily recognized and celebrated globally as a Colombian novelist and writer. Therefore, describing him simply or exclusively as a "Caribbean novelist" in this context is considered less accurate or standard compared to the other statements, making statement A incorrect for the standard classification of this question.
Statement B: "He was affectionately known as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America."
This statement is historically accurate. Throughout Latin America, he is widely and affectionately referred to by the nicknames "Gabo" or "Gabito".
Statement C: "He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982."
This statement is true. Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1982 "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts."
Statement D: "Love in the Time of Cholera is a Memoir written by Márquez."
This statement is incorrect. Love in the Time of Cholera (published in Spanish as El amor en los tiempos del cólera in 1985) is a world-famous novel, not a memoir. His actual memoir is titled Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir para contarla).
Statement E: "His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967."
This statement is true. His masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad), was first published in Buenos Aires in 1967 by Editorial Sudamericana.
By verifying the validity of each statement, we find that only statements B, C, and E are completely correct. Thus, the correct option is "B, C and E only."
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