Pablo Neruda

Bio: Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after the Czech poet Jan Neruda. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Born: July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile

Died: September 23, 1973 in Santiago, Chile