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"The greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."--Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"His enormous scope was due to the fact that he dared take on the risks of impurity, imperfection, and, yes, banality. He had to do it, in order to name a world. Our world."--New York Times

Pablo Neruda is the pen name of Ricardo Eli?cer Neftal? Reyes Basoalto. He was born in 1904 in Chile. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a poet and, despite his father's attempts to change his course, he stuck with it. In 1971 he won a Nobel Prize for his writings... Read Full Overview