Neruda, Poetry and Green ink: The colour of hope
Perhaps the most important Latin American poet of the 20th Century, Neruda was a Chilean poet as well as a
“You must read a book by a man named Steer: it is called ‘The Tree of Gernika”. It is about the fight of the Basques-he’s the London Times’ man-and no better book has come out of the war and he says, well, all the things i have tried to say to you the times i saw you, after Spain. It is beautifully written and true, and few books are like that, and fewer still deal with war. Please get it.”
Martha Gellhorn in conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Martha Gellhorn was regarded as one of the 20th century’s greatest war correspondents. She reported on virtually every conflict during her 60 year career. She was married to Ernest Hemingway from 1940-1945 . Ill and almost blind she committed suicide in 1998.
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