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Neruda


Described by Gabriel García Márquez as the “the greatest poet of the 20th century”, Pablo Neruda was a figurehead for Communism in Chile. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, Neruda was also a politician and diplomat. Towards the end of his life he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but during the late 1940s …