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TODAY’S ANSWER:
ANSWER: TAKE BREAD AWAY FROM ME, TAKE AWAY WATER IF YOU WISH; BUT NEVER DENY ME YOUR SMILE. —PABLO NERUDA
Pablo Neruda
July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973 • aged 69 • Chilean Poet & Diplomat
📚 A Celebrated Poet
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician whose writing ranged from passionate love poetry to historical epics and political works. He became one of the best known Spanish language poets of the twentieth century and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
✒️ Becoming Pablo Neruda
He was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile. He began writing poetry while young and adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda as a teenager. He later made the name his legal identity.
❤️ Twenty Love Poems
Neruda gained international attention with Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, published in 1924 when he was only 20. The collection became one of his most famous works and helped establish his reputation for vivid, emotional, and sensual poetry.
🌎 Poet & Diplomat
Alongside his literary career, Neruda served Chile in diplomatic posts in several countries. His experiences abroad, the Spanish Civil War, and his political commitments increasingly influenced his writing, expanding his poetry beyond personal themes to history and public life.
🏆 Nobel Prize
Neruda received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. By then his body of work included love poems, surrealist writing, political verse, historical poetry, and odes celebrating ordinary objects and experiences.
✨ A Lasting Literary Legacy
Neruda died in Santiago in September 1973, shortly after the military coup that overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende. His poetry has been translated into many languages, and works such as Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair remain widely read around the world.
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