Pablo Neruda received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, making them laureate number 67 since the prize was first awarded in 1901.
They are one of 2 laureates from Chile.
Our pick for reading Pablo Neruda for the first time is Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. It is one of the most widely read Nobel books in the world and an easy way in.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is probably the best-selling book of poetry ever written in Spanish. Neruda wrote it at just 19, and it speaks of desire, absence and the end of a love affair in very simple images. It is ideal if you have never read poetry: short poems to read and reread.
One email on announcement day with the winner and where to start reading. Then one Nobel read a month.