
Pablo Neruda (nə-ROO-də; ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) 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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12 July 1904 Parral, Chile
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| Died |
23 September 1973 (aged 69) Santiago, Chile
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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