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Aug 13, 2024 · Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He is perhaps the most important Latin American poet of the 20th century. Learn more about Neruda’s life, works, and political career in this article.
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Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
Born Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto, Neruda adopted the pseudonym under which he would become famous while still in his early teens. He grew up in Temuco in the backwoods of southern Chile. Neruda’s literary development received assistance from unexpected sources.
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.
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. Prize share: 1/1.
Apr 30, 2020 · Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904–September 23, 1973) was a Chilean poet and diplomat who wrote about love and the beauty of Latin America, as well as politics and communist ideals. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, in what was called a "contentious" decision, and is considered one of the greatest Spanish language poets of all time.
The Spanish Civil War and the murder of García Lorca, whom Neruda knew, affected him strongly and made him join the Republican movement, first in Spain, and later in France, where he started working on his collection of poems España en el Corazón (1937).
