Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971, announced October 21, 1971. Pablo Neruda, “for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams”. Pablo Neruda: born 1904, Parral, Chile. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).