Pablo+Neruda

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Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904, in the town of Parral, Chile. He was born with the name Niftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. His father was a railway employee, and his mother, who died shortly after Pablo's birth, was a teacher. Some years after his wife's death, Pablo's father remarried to Dona Trinidad Candia Malverde after moving to Temuco, which is where Pablo spent most of his childhood years. He became envolved with the daily newspaper at his school, and later published his first writings and poems. He became a contributor to the literary journal "Selva Austral", where he wrote under the alias Pablo Neruda. He chose this name as a memory of Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891). Some of the poems Neruda wrote at that time can be found in his first published book: Crepusculario (1923). The following year saw the publication of "Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada", one of his best-known and most translated works. Alongside his literary activities, Neruda pedagogy and French at the University of Chile in Santiago.

Between 1927 and 1935, the government placed him in charge of multiple honorary consulships, which took him to Burma, Ceylon, Singapore, Jave, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Madrid. His poetic production during that difficult period included, among other works, the collection of esoteric surrealistic poems, Residencia en la tierra (1933), which marked his literary breakthrough.

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