Book of Questions

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile, and became the most widely read and translated Spanish-language poet of the twentieth century. His early work Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924), written at nineteen, became a beloved classic. His three-volume Residencia en la Tierra (1933–1947) marks a surrealist turn, while Canto General (1950) is a sweeping epic of Latin American history. He served as a Chilean diplomat and senator and was a member of the Chilean Communist Party. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and the Lenin Peace Prize in 1953.