What is Pablo Neruda?
{{unreferenced|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]] --> | name = Pablo Neruda | image = Pablo Neruda (1966).jpg | imagesize = 200px | alt = thumb | caption = Neruda recording his poems at the U.S. Library of Congress in 1963 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Ricardo Neftali Reyes | birth_place = [[Chillan]], [[Chile]] | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1904|07|12}} | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1973|09|23|1904|07|12}} | death_place = [[Santiago]], [[Chile]] | nationality = [[Chilean|Chile]] | alma_mater = [[University of Chile]] | period = | genre = [[Poetry]] | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Canto General<br>Residence on Earth<br>100 Love Sonnets | spouse = Maryka Hagenaar<br>Delia del Carrill<br>Matilde Urrutia | partner = | children = | signature = Firma Pablo Neruda.svg | website = {{url|http://www.neruda.uchile.cl}} }} {{nobelprize|Literature}} '''Pablo Neruda''' (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was a [[Chile]]an [[poet]]. He won the [[Nobel Prize]] for [[literature]] in 1971. He wrote in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. Most of his works have been translated into many other languages. == Biography == [[File:La Sebastiana Neruda 1.jpg|thumb|left|upright|La Sebastiana, Neruda's house in [[Valparaíso]]]] Neruda was born in the City of [[Parral]] in Chile on July 12, 1904 born under the name Ricardo Neftali Reyes. Neruda’s mother died shortly after he was born, but the child, Neruda came to love his stepmother (Dona Trinidad Candia Malverde) as if she had been his real mother. Neruda started to write poetry as a young boy against the wishes of his father who wanted him to focus on mathematics - so he could become a teacher. In his youth he became a great admirer of the poetry of Jan Neruda and Paul Verlaine and chose the pen name of Pablo Neruda after Paul Verlaine (Pablo is the Spanish version of Paul) and Jan Neruda. Neruda was mainly