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19:00 CET
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Online session to read the poetry of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda with Professor Diana Cullell
About this event
Instituto Cervantes Manchester and Leeds Poetry's Club returns with a session dedicated to Chilean poetry. On this occasion, we approach the Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, who is one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. The session will be coordinated by Diana Cullell, professor at the University of Liverpool.
Pablo Neruda, pseudonym of Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, was born in Parral (Chile) in 1904, although as a child he lived in Temuco. At a very young age, he began to write articles for various newspapers and his first poems. Although he studied pedagogy at the University of Santiago, he had a prolific diplomatic life in Asia, Europe and America. His collections of poems include Crepusculario (1923), Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1924), Canto General (1950) and Estravagario (1958). He was awarded prizes such as the Chilean National Literature Prize in 1945 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Diana Cullell is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool and a specialist in Spanish and Catalan literature and culture. She has published on different authors and literary movements, with an interest in new forms of poetry and its new interpretations; contemporary Spanish and Catalan poetry; representations of the body in literature or the Spanish poetry market from 1980 to the present. His publications include La perfopoesía española en el siglo XXI: una revolución poética (Madrid: Amargord, 2019); Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology(Manchester University Press, 2014); or La Poesía de la Experiencia Española de Finales del Siglo XX al XXI (Madrid: Devenir, 2010).
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Activity in English.
For more information, please contact cultman@cervantes.es