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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Nicanor Parra, Victor Jara, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Roberto Bolano, Patricio Manns, Mario Aguilar, Mariela Griffor, Francisca Valenzuela, Andres Bello, Carlos Pezoa Veliz, Mauricio Rosenmann Taub, Sergio Badilla Castillo, Vicente Huidobro, Viviana Guzman, Maria de la Cruz, Miguel Arteche, Fernando Alegria, Pedro de Ona, Guillermo Deisler, David Rosenmann-Taub, Eduardo Anguita, Gonzalo Rojas, Enrique Lihn, Andres Morales, Elicura Chihuailaf, Pablo Mackenna, Victor Domingo Silva, Augusto d'Halmar, Daniel de la Vega, Soledad Farina Vicuna, Sergio Infante, Pedro Sienna, Braulio Arenas, Juvencio Valle, Hermogenes Irisarri, Astrid Fugellie, Grupo Taller de Estocolmo, Mauricio Redoles, Eduardo Parra Pizarro, Carlos Arredondo, Pedro Lastra, Carmen Berenguer, Andres Anwandter, Oliver Welden, Alfonso Calderon, Alberto Baeza Flores, Raul Zurita, Jeronimo Lagos Lisboa, Juan Guzman Cruchaga, Jenaro Gajardo Vera, Adolfo Quiros. Excerpt: Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 - September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda wrote in a variety of styles such as erotically charged love poems as in his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal color of hope. On July 15, 1945, at Pacaembu Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he read to 100,000 people in honor of Communist revolutionary leader Luis Carlos Prestes. During his lifetime, Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions and...
