About Pablo Neruda
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).
Known for:
Canto General|Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair|Q5839976|Arte de pájaros|Q18432683|Residence on Earth|Crepusculario|Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta
Notable works:
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Awards:
Nobel Prize in Literature|Order of the Aztec Eagle|Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition|National Prize for Literature (Chile)|Atenea Award|World Peace Council prizes|International Stalin Prize for Peace|Golden Wreath|Commander of the Order of the Sun of Peru|honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos|Viareggio-Versilia International Prize|honorary doctor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
