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Pablo Neruda

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Pablo Neruda

1904–1973

Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician (1904–1973)

Early 20th Century

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Biography

Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

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1904
Birth

Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

July 12 →
1971
Event

Pablo Neruda wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

October 21 →
1973
Death

Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)

September 23 →
2011
Event

la justicia chilena comienza a investigar formalmente la muerte de Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda y Eduardo Frei Montalva, por primera vez desde el golpe de Augusto Pinochet en septiembre de 1973.

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