Pablo Neruda was a poet, diplomat, and politician. He was born in Chile and is often considered the country’s national poet. He wrote works that fall into many different genres: love poems, political manifestos, surrealist experiments, historical epics, prose articles, autobiography, and odes to ordinary objects. Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. After he accepted the award, he returned to Chile to read in the national stadium before a crowd of 70,000 people. The influential critic Harold Bloom included Neruda as one of only 26 essential writers in his Western Canon. Gabriel García Márquez, novelist and fellow Nobel Prize winner from Colombia, called Neruda "the greatest...
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