Muhlenberg College Celebrates The Life Of Poet Pablo Neruda
In honor of the centennial of Pablo Neruda’s birth, Muhlenberg College will host events honoring the Nobel Prize-winning poet on Thursday, November 11.Monday, November 8, 2004 01:20 PM
In honor of the centennial of Pablo Neruda’s birth, Muhlenberg College will host events honoring the Nobel Prize-winning poet on Thursday, November 11. The day’s events will include student symposium on Neruda’s works and “In Praise of Invisible Things: Neruda and the Poetics of Wander,” a lecture by Marjorie Agosin, noted writer, human rights activist and professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.
From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Trumbower 130, six Muhlenberg students and one DeSales student will present papers on Neruda’s works.
Agosin’s lecture will be also be held at 7 p.m., also in Trumbower 130. Agosin has won numerous awards for her human rights work and has won two prestigious prixes given to Latino writers: the Letras de Oro prize and the Latin Literature Prize. She was written almost 20 books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essays.
Born on July 1, 1904 in Parral, Chile, Pablo Neruda is perhaps the most prestigious poet of the 20th century in Spanish America and one of the most valuable poets in the world.
His works, which influence politics, humanitarianism and several literary trends, are distinguished by a constant thematic and technical evolution that corresponds to the different stages of his life. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
A display on Neruda will be up in the Trexler Library until November 15.
