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Pablo Neruda

1904 – 1973 · Chile · Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1971

Canto General and the love poems memorised across a continent.

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Continuity of ideas

Who shaped Pablo Neruda, and who they shaped

Inherited from2

  • Gabriela Mistral

    1889 – 1957 · Literature

    Mistral taught the schoolboy Neruda and gave him Russian novels to read.

  • Walt Whitman

    1819 – 1892 · Literature

    Neruda names Whitman his teacher; the American catalogue becomes the Canto General.

Passed the work to1

  • Octavio Paz

    1914 – 1998 · Literature, Philosophy

    Their break over politics and form shaped two generations of Spanish American poetry.

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    Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Literature, 1971

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