The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971
Awarded on: 1971-10-21
"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"
Pablo Neruda
Born: 1904-07-12 in Parral, Chile
Gender: male
Field: Chilean poet and diplomat (1904–1973)
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).