Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904–September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean writer Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, considered one of the greatest Spanish-language poets of the 20th century. He was a prolific writer, and his output ranged from erotically-charged love poems, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political poems, to poems on common things, such nature and the sea. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez has called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language". In 1971, Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

External links

• Nobel Prize bio page
• Neruda Foundation
• Universidad de Chile: Neruda
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive: Neruda
• Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
• A&E life story of Neruda
• Works of Neruda (some translated into English)
• "True Stone and Epitaph: the Poetry of Pablo Neruda" by Gilbert Wesley Purdy. A full length book review/essay which includes a biography of Neruda.
• La Sebastiana - one of the homes of Neruda.
• "Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda", Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews Martín Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• "The poet conqueror", by Kelly Grovier, The Guardian, July 25, 2004 - A review of Neruda: A Passion for Life