The poet spent his childhood and youth in Temuco, where he also got to know Gabriela Mistral, head of the girls’ secondary school, who took a liking to him. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco, remarried doña Trinidad Candia Malverde. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. P ablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. Share via Email: Pablo Neruda – Biographical Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: Pablo Neruda – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: Pablo Neruda – Biographical Share this content on Twitter.Share on Facebook: Pablo Neruda – Biographical Share this content on Facebook.He resigned shortly thereafter and returned to Chile where he died a year later. Neruda was diagnosed with cancer during the time that he was ambassador to the French Government. He continued writing and was ultimately awarded the International Peace Price, the Stalin Peace Prize, and the Lenin Peace Prize, followed by the awarding in 1971 of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was during that time period that he penned Canto general in 1950.Ī couple of years later, the Chilean Governement suspended the arrest order on communist writers and politicians, which allowed Neruda to return to Chile. This ultimately caused Nerudo to go into hiding after the Chilean Government denounced communism. He also placed his membership with the Communist party at the time. He served for four years at the consulate in Mexico, and earned a seat in the Senate. Likewise, his writing also increased dramatically during this time. His political endeavors continued upon his return to Chile. Perhaps not to be is to be without your being He was recalled by his home country due to his apparent sympathy for the loyalists during the war. During that upheaval, Neruda wrote extensively about the war in Spain, including the execution of Garcia Lopez. The two men collaborated and formed a literary review publication however, with the start of the Spanish Civil War a few years later, his political and poetic activities were brought to an unexpected halt. Neruda later transferred to the consulate in Madrid, where he meet up with Manuel Altolaguirre, the well known Spanish writer. During his tenure there, he became friends with Federico Garcia Lorca, who was a Spanish poet visiting Argentina. He served in Burma for a few years as the honorary consul there, and was then later assigned to the conulate in Buenos Aires. This followed a long standing tradition of honoring poets by asking them to fill certain diplomatic assignments. Viejo Ciego, Llorabas (from Crepusculario)Ī few years later, Neruda embarked on a new aspect of life, that as being a diplomat. It’s interesting to note that he gave up his formal studies when he was just twenty years of age in order to pursue a fulltime career in poetry. This second work place Neruda into the category of celebrity. The next year, he acquired a publisher for his next work, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Apparently, they disapproved of his being a poet. This volume was published under the pen name of Pablo Neruda which was an attempt at avoiding a conflict with members of his family. In fact, in 1923, Neruda sold all of his personal belongings in order to pay for the publication of his very first collection, Crepusculario (which means Twilight). He was a Chilean poet, born in 1904, who also had a penchant for politics. His birth name was Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto, but most people know him as Pablo Neruda.
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