Pablo_Neruda

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after the Czech poet Jan Neruda. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Born: July 12, 1904, Parral, ChileDied: September 23, 1973, Santiago, ChileEducation: University of ChileSpouse: Matilde Urrutia (m. 1966–1973)

Geografía infructuosa/Barren Geography (poetry), 1972El mar y las campanas/The Sea and the Bells, tr. (poetry), 1973Incitación al nixonicidio y alabanza de la revolución chilena/A Call for the Destruction of Nixon and Praise for the Chilean Revolution, tr. (poetry), 1974El corazón amarillo/The Yellow Heart (poetry), 1974Defectos escogidos/Selected Waste Paper (poetry), 1974Elegía/Elegy (poetry), 1974Confieso que he vivido. Memorias/Memoirs, tr. (prose), 1974Para nacer he nacido/Passions and Impressions, tr. (prose), 1978

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Nobel Prize Winner

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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Pablo Neruda

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