Neruda

Nobel-winning versifier

Neruda most often refers to Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), the Chilean poet and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

His work ranges from surrealist verse to passionate love poetry to political writing.

She quoted Neruda at the wedding.

The name, adopted as a pen name, has become synonymous with romantic, accessible poetry in the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.

political

communist

Collectivist political adherent

exile · Pinochet · activism · leftist · revolution · manifesto · solidarity · persecution · Chile · ideological

poet

Pablo

Spanish masculine name

  • ChileanOf an Andean republic
  • verseMetered poetic passage
  • odesLaudatory lyric verses

Nobel Prize · surrealism · lyricism · metaphor · romanticism · elemental · sensuality · imagery · stanzas · collections

Chilean

Valparaiso

Chilean coastal metropolis

national · icon · identity · cultural · heritage · homeland · landscape · seascape · Machu Picchu · Latin American

literary influence

Whitman

translation · anthology · homage · legacy · disciples · generation · movement · inspiration · canonical · Nobel

death mystery

1973

Early seventies date

investigation · exhumation · conspiracy · typhoid · autopsy · forensic · suspicious · deathbed · hospital · September

Categories
Opposites
literary form

Nerudanovelist

Writer of prose narratives

Gabriel García Márquez · prose writer · Jorge Luis Borges · fiction writer · essayist

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