July 2, 2004
Pablo Neruda: a Life Consumed by Poetry and Politics
On December 13, 1971, the Nobel Prize committee honored Pablo Neruda with its award in literature, citing his "poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams." By then, Neruda had become the poet par excellence of Latin America.
It was, as the legendary books of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez described it, a continent defined by solitude. But in his acceptance speech in Stockholm, Neruda, born Neftalí
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