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- Birth nameNeftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
- Pablo Neruda was the pseudonym of Chilean poet Ricardo Neftali Reyes Basualto. He was born in Parral, a little town in central Chile, but his family moved to Temuco City when he was just a few months old. It was there he showed interest in poetry and made his early works, and where he picked "Pablo Neruda" as a pseudonym because his father did not approve of his writing.
Neruda He is considered one of the greatest Spanish-language poets of the 20th century. He is called "The Poet of Love" because his poetry is sensual and sometimes very erotic. He was the honorary Chilean consul in Burma, Ceylon, Java, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Madrid. In 1943 he returned to Chile but left in 1949 because Chilean President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla was after him for political reasons. From 1949-52 he lived in exile in different European countries. He was also known as an outspoken Communist. he died in Santiago, Chile, a few days after the military coup in which his friend Salvador Allende, the first socialist to have been democratically elected in Latin America, was toppled and later murdered.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Rodrigo Pastor Pensa
- SpousesMatilde Urrutia(1966 - September 23, 1973) (his death)Delia de Carril(1943 - 1955) (divorced)María Antonieta Hagenaar(1930 - 1936) (divorced, 1 child)
- Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
- Children: Malva Marina (b.1934, d.1942)
- Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez considers him the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.
- Federico García Lorca was a primary influence on his style. The two poets were close friends up until Lorca's execution during the Spanish Civil War.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 321-330. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Love is so short and forgetting so long.
- Only with burning patience shall we conquer the splendid city which shall give light, justice and dignity to all men. Thus shall Poetry not have sung in vain.
- They may mow down all the flowers, but they can't stop spring.
- Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
- Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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