Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, his breadth of vision and wide range of themes are extraordinary, and his work continues to inspire new generations of writers.
Neruda was born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile, in 1904. In 1945, a few years after he joined the Communist Party, Neruda was elected to the Chilean Senate. Shortly thereafter, when Chile's political climate took a sudden turn to the right, Neruda fled to Mexico, and lived as an exile for several years. He later established a permanent home at Isla Negra. In 1970 he was appointed as Chile's ambassador to France, and in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Pablo Neruda died in 1973.
Forrest Gander is a celebrated poet, translator, essayist, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico, known for the richness of his language and his undaunted lyric passion. He is the author of more than a dozen books. His many honors include the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative North American Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Gander lives in Rhode Island, where he is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
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