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Pablo Neruda (/ n ə ˈ r uː d ə / nə-ROO-də; [1] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ⓘ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. [2]
Pablo Neruda is known for his surrealist poems and historical epics which touches political, human and passionate themes. Among his well known works which are read throughout the world include Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada ("Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair", 1924), which established him as a prominent poet and an interpreter of love and erotica, and Cien Sonetos de ...
Matilde Urrutia Cerda (30 April 1912 – 5 January 1985) was the third wife of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, from 1966 until he died in 1973. They met in Santiago, Chile in 1946, when she was working as a physical therapist in Chile. She was the first woman in Latin America to work as a pediatric therapist.
A Chilean appeals court on Tuesday ordered the reopening of an investigation into the death of the leftist poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda in 1973 soon after the military seized power in a coup.
Nominees included were Patrick White (awarded in 1973), Pablo Neruda (awarded in 1971), Heinrich Böll (awarded in 1972), Jorge Luis Borges and Tarjei Vesaas. 25 of the nominees were nominated first-time, among them Paavo Haavikko, Denis de Rougemont, Heðin Brú, Sei Itō, Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Hugo Bergmann, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Fazıl ...
Pablo Neruda: 1904 – 1973 Chilean poet-diplomat and politician (official reports state that Neruda died from complications of prostate cancer and cancer-related cachexia at the age of 69. Many rumors and speculations of alternate reasons for his death persist) [512] [513] [514] Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat: 1931 – 2015
Died: Pablo Neruda, 69, Chile's national poet, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a former Communist who had been Salvador Allende's Ambassador to France, died of prostate cancer shortly after being released home from a hospital. [113]
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language.