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13 unusual facts about Pablo Neruda


Bodeguita del medio

It is a famous tourist destination because of the personalities which have patronized it: Salvador Allende, the poet Pablo Neruda, the writer Ernest Hemingway, the artist Josignacio and many others.

Caldillo de congrio

Chilean Literature Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda wrote an ode to Caldillo de congrio called Oda al Caldillo de Congrio.

Georgina Lázaro

She has also written poems that introduce children to Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha and other mainstays of Hispanic culture, as well as "Ya llegan los Reyes Magos!", published by Lectorum in 2001, geared to promote Puerto Rico's tradition and culture.

Hugh Wood

Song Cycle to Poems of Pablo Neruda for high voice and chamber orchestra, Op 19 (1973–1974)

Javier Abril Espinoza

In 1996 he won the Pablo Neruda Prize for his poetry collection De aquí en adelante... from now on... (1996 - UPNH), and the Mari Paz Ovidi Premio Internacional de Cuentos Mari Paz Ovidi International Short Story Prize, organized by the Australian publishing house Terra Austral, in 2005.

Joan Manuel Serrat

Serrat's lyrical style has been influenced by other poets such as Mario Benedetti, Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernández, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and León Felipe.

Jyro Xhan

According to the liner notes of Pura, Solamente is inspired by Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda and is cited as Jyro's favorite poet.

Michael Gielen

As a composer, he has elaborated on the tradition of the Second Viennese School and his small oeuvre includes settings of poems by Hans Arp, Paul Claudel, Stefan George, and Pablo Neruda.

Mindwalk

Thomas Harriman, the poet, recites the poem "Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda (based on the translation by Robert Bly) at the end of the movie, concluding the core of the discussion.

Pehr Henrik Nordgren

Amor Desesperada, 4 Pieces after Pablo Neruda's 20 Poemas de amor, y una canción desesperada for soprano, baritone, koto, shakuhachi and double bass, Op. 120 (2003)

Rodolfo Parada

After exile his voice register underwent a change and he assumed a lower vocal range e.g. “Ronda del ausente”, “Luz negra”; “Complainte de Pablo Neruda” - inter alia.

Whilst in exile he composed the instrumental music pieces: “Susurro” and "El paso del ñandu", plus he also composed music for Pablo Neruda's poem "El arbol de los libres" and for Rafael Alberti's "La primavera".

Subhro Bandopadhyay

He has authored 5 poetry books, a novel and a biography on Pablo Neruda, all of them in Bengali.


Carlos Luis Fallas

As an author he is best known for his novels Mamita Yunai (1940), which denounced the harsh condition endured by workers for the United Fruit Company and which is referenced in Pablo Neruda's Canto General, and for Marcos Ramírez (1952), a humorous bildungsroman about the life of a Costa Rican boy in the early 20th century, taken largely from Fallas's own life.

Editorial Losada

The house has published important writers such as Nobel Prize winners Pablo Neruda and Miguel Ángel Asturias.

Edwin Cerio

In 1950, Cerio invited Chilean author Pablo Neruda to stay at one of his villas - a sojourn that was later part-fictionalised in the film Il Postino (1994), although the action of the film was based on the novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta which deals with a later period of Neruda's life (when the poet was living at Isla Negra, in Chile).

Emilio Salgari

His work was very popular in Portugal, Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, where Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, all attested to reading him when young.

Fatos Arapi

He translated into Albanian the works of poets such as Sapho, Pablo Neruda and Nikola Vaptsarov.

György Rózsahegyi

This way he managed to draw countless world famous personalities, from Liz Taylor to Roger Moore, from Pelé to Franz Beckenbauer, from Alberto Moravia to Pablo Neruda, from Helmut Schmidt to Fidel Castro.

Joan Gili

These included textbooks and literary studies, and translations of Miguel de Unamuno, Luis Cernuda, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Pablo Neruda.

Jorge Aravena Llanca

As a photographer, he has exhibited photographs of Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Nicanor Parra, amid others, in the National Library of Chile.

Pablo de Rokha

However, today his writing widely studied and the poet is considered one of The four greats of Chilean poetry, along with Neruda, Huidobro and Mistral.

He won the Chilean Premio Nacional de Literatura (National Literature Prize in 1965 and is counted among the The four greats of Chilean poetry, along with Pablo Neruda, Vicente Huidobro and Gabriela Mistral.

SS Winnipeg

The Chilean President Pedro Aguirre Cerda had named the poet Pablo Neruda Special Consul in Paris for Immigration, and he was charged with what he called "the noblest mission I have ever undertaken": shipping the Spanish refugees, who had been housed by the French in internment camps, to Chile.

Struga

The main event of the cultural life in Struga is the world's largest poetry gathering, Struga Poetry Evenings, whose laureates have included several Nobel Prize for Literature winners such as Joseph Brodsky, Eugenio Montale, Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca and many others since 1966.

The History of Love

Other important literary allusions in the novel include references to James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Leo Tolstoy, Rubén Darío and Pablo Neruda.

West End Press

Founded in New York City in 1975 by John Crawford, the press has published more than 100 titles by writers such as Meridel Le Sueur, Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Sharon Doubiago, and Joseph Bruchac.