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Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet

Also known as: Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

Written by Roberto González Echevarría, Manuel E. Duran•All

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Last Updated: Nov 11, 2024 • Article History

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Original name:: Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

Born:: July 12, 1904, Parral, Chile

Died:: September 23, 1973, Santiago (aged 69)

Awards And Honors:: Nobel Prize (1971)

Notable Works:: “Canto general”; “Crepusculario”; “Elemental Odes”; “Residence on Earth”; “Spain in My Heart”; “Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda”; “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”

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Pablo Neruda (born July 12, 1904, Parral, Chile—died September 23, 1973, Santiago) 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. Neruda was the son of José del Carmen Reyes, a railway worker, and Rosa Basoalto. His mother died within a month of his birth, and two years later the family moved to Temuco, a small town farther south in Chile, where his father remarried. Neruda was a precocious boy who began to write poetry at age 10. His ...(100 of 2015 words)

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