{"id":214506,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214506-pablo-neruda-featured-biography","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214506","headline":"Pablo Neruda || Featured Biography","content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePABLO NERUDA\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e (1904 - 1973) \u003cstrong\u003e|\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKudos365 History Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoet, Diplomat, and Voice of Latin America\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and political figure whose writing ranged from intimate love poetry to sweeping accounts of history, nature, labor, and the peoples of Latin America. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, he became one of the most widely read poets of the twentieth century. His extraordinary literary achievement coexisted with intense political commitments and troubling aspects of his personal conduct, making his legacy both influential and contested.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile. His father, José del Carmen Reyes Morales, worked for the railway, while his mother, Rosa Basoalto, was a schoolteacher. She died from tuberculosis shortly after his birth.\u003cbr\u003eNeruda’s father moved the family to Temuco, a frontier town in southern Chile, and married Trinidad Candia Marverde. Neruda remembered his stepmother with affection. The forests, rivers, rain, and rugged landscapes of southern Chile left a permanent mark on his imagination and later appeared throughout his poetry.\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"PABLO NERUDA (1904 - 1973) | Kudos365 History SeriesPoet, Diplomat, and Voice of Latin AmericaPablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and political figure whose writing ranged from intimate love poetry to sweeping accounts of history, nature, labor, and the peoples of Latin America. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, he became one of the most widely read poets of the twentieth century. His extraordinary literary achievement coexisted with intense political commitments and troubling aspects of his personal conduct, making his legacy both influential and contested.He was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile. His father, José del Carmen Reyes Morales, worked for the railway, while his mother, Rosa Basoalto, was a schoolteacher. She died from tuberculosis shortly after his birth.Neruda’s father moved the family to Temuco, a frontier town in southern Chile, and married Trinidad Candia Marverde. Neruda remembered his stepmother with affection. The forests, rivers, rain, and rugged landscapes of southern Chile left a permanent mark on his imagination and later appeared throughout his poetry.","published_at":"2026-10-14T00:59:00-07:00","updated_at":"2026-10-14T01:00:01-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Kronos","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297887-kronos"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Once Upon the Time on Kudos365. View their photo published Oct/14/2026 on Biographies. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365fs.imgix.net/media/BcsLb62qS9qFJ8XhudzT_ChatGPT%20Image%20Sep%203,%202026,%2011_34_11%20PM%20-%20FINAL%20RECTANGULAR.png?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":1,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Biographies","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1090-biographies"},{"name":"History","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/953-history"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214506-pablo-neruda-featured-biography","headline":"Pablo Neruda || Featured Biography","image":"https://k365fs.imgix.net/media/BcsLb62qS9qFJ8XhudzT_ChatGPT%20Image%20Sep%203,%202026,%2011_34_11%20PM%20-%20FINAL%20RECTANGULAR.png?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kronos","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297887-kronos"},"datePublished":"2026-10-14T00:59:00-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":1}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Biographies","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1090-biographies"},{"@type":"Thing","name":"History","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/953-history"}]}}