Pablo Neruda

1904 – 1973 · died at about 69^[1][2]

Literature

Fun Facts About Pablo Neruda

• Pablo Neruda, who first signed his work Neftalí Reyes, took a pen name thought to come from Czech poet Jan Neruda, though some sources credit a violinist named in Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.^[1][3][4]
• While in exile, Neruda traveled to Europe on the passport of his friend Miguel Ángel Asturias, a future Nobel laureate who slightly resembled him, and Pablo Picasso arranged his entrance into Paris.^[1][5][6]
• Neruda's 1952 stay on the island of Capri was fictionalized in a 1985 novel that inspired the popular film Il Postino (1994).^[1]
• Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924) has sold millions of copies and is still the best-selling poetry book in the Spanish language.^[1]
• Neruda's father opposed his writing, but young Neruda was encouraged by future Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral, who headed the local school. Years later he succeeded her as consul in Madrid.^[1]
• Gabriel García Márquez once called Neruda the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.^[1][7][8]
• Pablo Neruda was alive at the same time as Dmitri Mendeleev — their lives overlapped for 3 years (1904–1907).^{[1][2][9][10]}
• Pablo Neruda shares a birthday with Malala Yousafzai: both were born on July 12.^{[1][2][11][12]}

Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).^[1]

Contemporaries

Pablo Picasso

69 yr overlap

Georgia O'Keeffe

69 yr overlap

Charlie Chaplin

69 yr overlap

Agatha Christie

69 yr overlap

Haile Selassie

69 yr overlap

J.R.R. Tolkien

69 yr overlap

Mao Zedong

69 yr overlap

Golda Meir

69 yr overlap

Duke Ellington

69 yr overlap

Jorge Luis Borges

69 yr overlap

Werner Heisenberg

69 yr overlap

Alfred Hitchcock

69 yr overlap

Their World

Questions About Pablo Neruda

When was Pablo Neruda born?

Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904, and died on September 23, 1973.

How old was Pablo Neruda at death?

Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904, and died on September 23, 1973, at age 69.

What was Pablo Neruda known for?

Pablo Neruda was known for: Chilean poet and Nobel laureate. Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

Who was alive at the same time as Pablo Neruda?

Pablo Neruda's closest contemporary was Pablo Picasso. Their lives overlapped for 69 years.