Editing Chile (section)

===Literature===
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Chile is a ''country of poets''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uchile.cl/cultura/poetasjovenes/bianchi26.htm |title=Un mapa por completar: la joven poesia chilena – ¿Por qué tanta y tan variada poesía? |publisher=Uchile.cl |access-date=17 December 2009 |archive-date=10 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510185823/https://www.uchile.cl/cultura/poetasjovenes/bianchi26.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Gabriela Mistral]] was the first Latin American to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (1945). Chile's most famous poet is [[Pablo Neruda]], who received the Nobel Prize for Literature (1971) and is world-renowned for his extensive library of works on romance, nature, and politics. His three highly personalized homes in [[Isla Negra]], Santiago and Valparaíso are popular tourist destinations.

Among the list of other Chilean poets are [[Carlos Pezoa Véliz]], [[Vicente Huidobro]], [[Gonzalo Rojas]], [[Pablo de Rokha]], [[Nicanor Parra]], [[Ivonne Coñuecar]] and [[Raúl Zurita]]. [[Isabel Allende]] is the best-selling Chilean novelist, with 51 million of her novels sold worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=346023&CategoryId=13003 |title=Latin American Herald Tribune – Isabel Allende Named to Council of Cervantes Institute |publisher=Laht.com |access-date=14 November 2010 |archive-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430032920/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=346023&CategoryId=13003 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Novelist [[José Donoso]]'s novel ''[[The Obscene Bird of Night]]'' is considered by critic [[Harold Bloom]] to be one of the canonical works of 20th-century Western literature. Another internationally recognized Chilean novelist and poet is [[Roberto Bolaño]] whose translations into English have had an excellent reception from the critics.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1857951,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081115083810/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1857951,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 November 2008 |magazine=Time |date=10 November 2008 |access-date=28 April 2010 |first=Lev |last=Grossman |author-link= Lev Grossman |title=Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Sarah Kerr |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22171 |title=The Triumph of Roberto Bolaño |magazine=The New York Review of Books |date=18 December 2008 |access-date=20 February 2010 |archive-date=4 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304074108/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22171 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/books/review/Wood.t.html |work=The New York Times |title=The Visceral Realist |first=James |last=Wood |date=15 April 2007 |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-date=11 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411144027/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/books/review/Wood.t.html |url-status=live }}</ref>