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'Peace for all those alive': Pablo Neruda on the 50th anniversary of his death – People's World

In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda describes his escape from the Chilean government of President Videla across the Andes to Argentina: On either side of the trail I could observe in the wild desolation something which betrayed human activity.

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13 Famous Spanish Authors - Capitalize My Title

From Miguel de Cervantes to Lope de Vega, these famous Spanish authors are renowned worldwide for their literary works. Read now.

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Chile's Jorge Edwards, 1999 Cervantes Prize winner, dead at 91

Santiago/Madrid, Mar 17 (EFE).- Chilean author Jorge Edwards, an acclaimed novelist who was awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1994 and Spain’s prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1999, passed away on Friday in Madrid. He was 91. In addition to his literary accomplishments, Edwards also was an academic who taught courses at …

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Renowned author Isabel Allende turns 80 | Books | DW

One of the world's most widely read Spanish-language authors, Allende continues to fight for women's rights and write novels with strong female characters.

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Author - Renowned author Isabel Allende turns 80

At 80, the author continues to fight for women's rights and write novels with strong female characters

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High expectations surround Buenos Aires book expo after 2-year hiatus

By Javier Castro Bugarin Buenos Aires, Apr 28 (EFE).- Unprecedented levels of enthusiasm and expectation surrounded Thursday’s inauguration of the 46th edition of the Buenos Aires International Book Fair, after the event was canceled the past two years due to the coronavirus crisis. Over the next 19 days, the spacious La Rural fairgrounds in the …

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Acclaimed Chilean poet Raul Zurita: All on the line in Sunday's runoff

By Patricia Nieto Mariño Santiago, Dec 14 (EFE).- With less than a week remaining until Chile’s runoff presidential election, an acclaimed poet who experienced first-hand the horrors of Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing 1973-1990 military dictatorship told Efe that the future of the country is on the line in Sunday’s vote. Raul Zurita, a 71-year-old unapologetic …

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Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Pablo Neruda's Odes - Words Without Borders


Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Pablo Neruda’s Odes
When Pablo Neruda published his first of three collections of odes—the
Odas elementales (Elementary Odes)—in 1954, he was probably unaware that his Russian hero, Pushkin, had written 130 years earlier that odes were the lowest form of poem because they lacked a “plan” and because mere “rapture” excluded the kind of “tranquility” which, Pushkin said, was “an indispensable condition” of the highest beauty.” 
Fortunately, Neruda
does achieve rapture, tranquility, and immense beauty in many of the
Odes.  Nevertheless, his aim was to speak to the ordinary people in the street about ordinary things using the language of the street. He praises simple objects like onions and tomatoes. I cannot agree with René de Costa’s view that Neruda designed the ode “as a didactic artifice.”  Neruda’s odes are neither didactic nor artificial. Many seem genuinely full of his awe at the beauty around him. His enthusiasm is irresistible. We enjoy the world anew through his eyes: yes, a simple artichoke can be seen as a soldier, wrapped in armor and ready for battle; an onion is “more beautiful than a bird / with blinding feathers.”  Other odes are overtly political, condemning North American military aggression in Korea or US appropriation of much of the Chilean copper industry.  Yet, in his superb study of the

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