The phrase land of poets ( es, país de poetas) is commonly used to describe Chile because of its highly-valued poetry tradition. The phrase is most often associated with the fact that Chilean poets have twice obtained

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for their works: Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

in 1971. According to the

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academician Oscar Galindo, the concept of Chile as the "land of poets" is mostly foreign.

References

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See also

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