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The prolific Chilean diplomat is now remembered more for his love poems then anything else. He received his pen anme from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Before his death in 1973 Neruda was awarded numerous awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Nobel Price for Literature in 1971.