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would go on to become the world’s award.

first democratically elected Socialist

president. While Allende was In 1973 Neruda was diagnosed

president, Neruda was appointed with prostate cancer. Then a coup

ambassador to France from 1970- d’etat on September 11 of that year

1972. took over the Chilean government,

Allende committed suicide, and on

In 1971 Neruda was awarded the September 23, Neruda died. Many

Nobel Prize for Literature, which say that he was poisoned by the

was not easy due to the controversy forces of the new dictator Augusto

surround his political opinions. Pinochet. It was reported, however,

Nonetheless, the strength of his that he died of a heart attack.

poetry and writing won in the end,

and Neruda accepted this wonderful Since then, Neruda’s works have