How is Gabriel Garcia Marquez well-known as?
- AKnown for research in agriculture
- BA renowned football coaches
- CA great writer who won the Nobel Prize for literatureCorrect
- DKnown for research in railway engineering
Explanation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a world renowned Colombian novelist and journalist, primarily famous for popularizing the literary style known as magical realism. He is best known for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for his rich and imaginative writing. He had no professional connection to agriculture, football coaching, or railway engineering.
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