However, today his writing widely studied and the poet is considered one of The four greats of Chilean poetry, along with Neruda, Huidobro and Mistral.
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He won the Chilean Premio Nacional de Literatura (National Literature Prize in 1965 and is counted among the The four greats of Chilean poetry, along with Pablo Neruda, Vicente Huidobro and Gabriela Mistral.
Towards the end of his life, however, he left the political sphere and retired to his house in Cartagena on the coast of Chile.
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For example, while Gabriela Mistral was head teacher at the Girls’ High School in Temuco, Chile, and already recognized as an outstanding poet, a teenage boy came to her with his own poems, asking for her opinion.
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