Nobel Prize in Literature: Which Latin American writers have won?

3. Pablo Neruda, Chile (1971)

Called “the greatest poet of the 20th century – in any language” by fellow Latin American Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda’s famous love poems indeed strike a chord. Also politically involved, Nerudo served as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party, was eventually hunted for arrest, and escaped to exile in Argentina. He returned to Chile after winning the award “for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."

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