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Pablo Neruda: Nobel Prize
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[Y]et, here is Carolyn Curiel in the New York Times this July 6: "That Pablo Neruda was the greatest poet of the last century is beyond argument in much of South America." In fact, the more honest of his fellow Chileans express great resentment that Neruda's Nobel overshadows that awarded in 1945 to another Chilean poet, Gabriela Mistral, unknown north of the Rio Grande today, and many of them argue that yet another Chilean modernist, Vicente Huidobro, was a thousand times better and more important to world literature than Neruda. Huidobro compared Neruda, unfavorably, to a tango dancer.
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Pablo Neruda holds the distinction of giving readings to the two largest audiences of any poet in history. On July 15, 1945 he read to 100,000 at Pacaembú Stadium in Sao Paolo, Brazil in honor of the Communist revolutionary Luis Carlos Prestes. When he returned to Chile after receiving his Nobel Prize for Literature, President Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional for an audience of 70,000.
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Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973), Chilean poet, considered one of the most important Latin American literary figures of the 20th century. His real name was Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (in full, Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto.) He took his pen name from Czech writer and poet Jan Neruda; it would later become his legal name. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
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Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), uno de los poetas másreconocidos del siglo veinte, nació en Parral, Chile. En 1950, recibió, junto con Paul Robeson y Pablo Picasso el Premio Mundial de la Paz.
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Having his works translated into dozens of languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Neruda was accomplished in a wide variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems (such as "White Hills"), surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. Some of Neruda's most beloved poems are his "Odes to Broken Things," collected in several volumes. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez has called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language". In 1971, Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature, a controversial award because of his political activism.
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On this day in 1904, Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile, as Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. The headmistress of his hometown high school was Gabriela Mistral, Chile's other Nobel winner; when he was sixteen years old, Neruda knocked on her door, handed over his poems, and returned three hours later to receive her judgment that he was "indeed a true poet."
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