TWA Poets: Pablo Neruda

1904 - 1973

It’s the birthday of poet Pablo Neruda, born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile (1904). He became known as a poet at the age of 13 and in 1923, when he was 19, he sold all his possessions in order to publish his first book, Crepusculario (Twilight). Because his father didn’t approve of his writing poetry, he published it under the pen name …