1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

1971 Nobel Prize in Literature
Pablo Neruda
"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
Date
  • 21 October 1971 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1971
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chilean politician and poet Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."[1] Neruda became the second Chilean Nobel laureate in Literature after Gabriela Mistral in 1945.

  1. ^ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1971". nobelprize.org.