ArtistInfo

Pablo Neruda

voc, 1904-1973 CL
Spoken Word and World
A.k.a. Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/; [ˈpaβ̞lo̞ ne̞ˈɾuð̞a]) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973). He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.The Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called Neruda "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." Harold Bloom included Neruda as one of the 26 writers central to the "Western Tradition" in his book The Western Canon.

Genres

• Spoken Word
• World
• Folk
• Latin
• Classical