Called 鈥渢he greatest poet of the 20th century 鈥 in any language鈥 by fellow Latin American Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, Pablo Neruda鈥檚 famous love poems indeed strike a chord. Also politically involved, Nerudo served as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party, was eventually hunted for arrest, and escaped to exile in Argentina. He returned to Chile after winning the award 鈥渇or a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."