Pablo Neruda

Born

July 12, 1904

Died

September 23, 1973 (aged 69)

Known as

poet, diplomat, politician, lyricist, autobiographer, writer

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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