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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda, the nom de plume of Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born in Chile, in 1904. His first collection of poems, Crepusculario, was published in 1923 when he was nineteen years of age, but it was his second, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), that would ultimately earn him literary celebrity. Other notable works include: Spain in My Heart (1933), inspired by Neruda’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and by the death of his friend and fellow poet, Federico García Lorca; Residence on Earth (1933), a collection of obscure and surreal poems; and Canto General (1950), an expansive work, composed in exile about the socio-political history of Latin America from a Marxist ethos. Neruda was an active politician, as well a writer, and held administrative positions in Spain, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He was also forced into exile 1949 because of his politics, but returned to Chile in 1952. He was close to Salvador Allende and from 1970 to 1972 Neruda served as the Chilean ambassador to France. In 1971, Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent’s destiny and dreams”. The Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, once called Pablo Neruda, “the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language.” He died in 1973.

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Awards

Stalin Peace Prize (1953)
International Peace Prize (1950)
Lenin Prize (1953)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1971)

Bibliography

Poetry
Alturas de Macchu-Picchu (1948)
Anillos (1926)
Canto General (1950)
Cantos ceremoniales (1961)
Cien sonetos de amor (1959)
El corazon amarillo (1974)
El mar y las campanas: Poemas (1973)
Espana en el corazon: Himno a las glorias del pueblo en la guerra (1937)
Estravagario (1958)
Jardin de invierno (1974)
La rosa separada (1973)
Las piedras de Chile (1961)
Las piedras del cielo (1970)
Las uvas y el viento (1954)
Libro de las preguntas (1974)
Los versos del capitan: Poemas de amor (1952)
Memorial de Isla Negra (1964)
Odas elementales (1954)
Plenos poderes (1962)
Residencia en la tierra (1933)
Viente poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada(1924)

Prose
Confieso que he vivido: Memorias (1974)
Correspondancia (1980)
Discurso pronunciado con ocasion de la entrega del premio Nobel de literatura(1971)
El habitante y su esperanza (1925)

Anthology
Cuarenta y cuatro (1967)
Paginas escogidas de Anatole France (1924)
Romeo y Julieta (1964)
Visiones de las hijas de Albion y el viajero mental (1935)

Drama
Fulgor y muerte de Joaquin Murieta: Bandido chileno injusticiado en Californiael 23 julio 1853 (1967)

Poetry in Translation
100 Love Sonnets (1986)
A New Decade: Poems, 1958-1967 (1969)
A Separate Rose (1985)
Extravagaria (1972)
Five Decades: A Selection (Poems 1925-1970) (1974)
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (1998)
Fully Empowered: Plenos poderes (1975)
Isla Negra: A Notebook (1980)
Late and Posthumous Poems, 1968-1974 (1989)
Memoirs (1976)
Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems (1971)
New Poems, 1968-1970 (1972)
Pablo Neruda and Nicanor Parra Face to Face (1977)
Pablo Neruda: An Anthology of Odes (1994)
Pablo Neruda: The Early Poems (1969)
Passions and Impressions (1982)
Residence on Earth (1962)
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (1990)
Selected Poems (1970)
Spain in the Heart: Hymn to the Glories of the People at War (1993)
Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta (1972)
Stones of the Sky (1970)
The Book of Questions (1991)
The Captain’s Verses (1972)
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (1966)
The House at Isla Negra (1988)
The Sea and the Bells (1988)
The Stones of Chile (1987)
The Yellow Heart (1990)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1969)
Twenty Poems (1967)
Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile (1984)
Winter Garden (1986)
The Essential Neruda (2004)

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Books By Pablo Neruda

April 1971

Selected Poems

by Pablo Neruda

October 1988

Late and Posthumous Poems: 1968-1974

by Pablo Neruda

September 1974

Five Decades: A Selection

by Pablo Neruda