Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Name: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
ISBN: 9780140186482

by Pablo Neruda

Nobel Prize · 1971 · Winner

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Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Nobel Prize in Literature	1971	Winner	“For a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams”

About This Book

For a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams

About the Author

Pablo NerudaChilean

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician renowned for his passionate love poetry and politically charged works. He gained international fame with Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair at age 20 and later produced the epic Canto General, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. A communist senator and advisor to Salvador Allende, he died shortly after the 1973 Pinochet coup.

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