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Apr 2, 2014 · Pablo Neruda was a Nobel Prize–winning Chilean poet who was once called “the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.” He died mysteriously in 1973.
Biographical. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher.
1904 –. 1973. Read poems by this poet. Born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in the town of Parral in southern Chile on July 12, 1904, Pablo Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. In 1923, he sold all of his possessions to finance the publication of his first book, Crepusculario (“Twilight”).
Pablo Neruda. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971. Born: 12 July 1904, Parral, Chile. Died: 23 September 1973, Santiago, Chile. Residence at the time of the award: Chile. Prize motivation: “for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams”. Language: Spanish.
Pablo Neruda Biography. He was the only son of the couple formed by the railroad conductor, Don José del Carmen Reyes Morales, and the teacher, Doña Rosa Basoalto, who died two months after the poet’s birth. At the age of two, he went to live in the southern city of Temuco, where his father remarried Mrs. Trinidad Candia Marverde, to whom ...
Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean poet Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Neruda is considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures in the history of Latin American literature.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 was awarded to Pablo Neruda "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams"
