World Poetry Day

To mark this year’s World Poetry Day, UNESCO will pay tribute to Chilean poet and Nobel Literacy Prize winner, Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), the centenary of whose birth is also being celebrated.

The tribute will take place on Thursday, March 18, three days before World Poetry Day (March 21).

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Read the programme of the day

 

Publication Date 15 Mar 2004
Media Advisory N° 2004-17
Author(s) Bureau of Public Information
Arts and Creativity

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