Word: basoalto
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...railroad worker, Neruda (real name: Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto) was born in Parral, a small agricultural town in southern Chile. He started writing poetry at the age of eight, and persisted even though his book-hating father once destroyed his notebooks...
...Swedish author] remarked it would be better to give all the prizes to ambassadors so there won't be any problem in handing over the prize. Today we are doing as he suggested. The 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto." After a theatrical pause, while most of his audience wondered what obscure writer the academy had chosen this time, Gierow added: "Also known as Pablo Neruda...
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