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Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1971

Friday, October 21, 2022

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly 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).