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Name : Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto (name legally changed to Pablo Neruda later in life)

Pen name: Pablo Neruda

Birthdate: July 12, 1904

Birthplace: Parral, Chile

First published: At 13, Entusiasmo y Perseverancia.

Pen name of Pablo Neruda in memory of Czech poet Jan Neruda. Pablo took this name at the age of 16.

Always wrote in green, the color of hope.

Imagery of sea, eyes, and nature prominent in his poetry

School: French and pedagogy, University of Chile, Santiago.  

Nobel Prize for Literature – 1971

March 4, 1945 – Senator for Communist Party of Chile. July 1945 – joins Communist Party. 

 Throughout his life, always related/participating in some part of the government.
1927 – 1935 : honorary consulships
Spanish Civil War : joined Republican movement in Spain/France
1939: consul for Spanish emigration, Consul General in Mexico
1945: senator of the Republic  (because of actions, forced to live underground from 1947-1949)

Published a large body of work. (selected bibliography available here: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/279)

Marriages: Maria Antonieta Haagenar Vogelzang, Delia del Carril, Matilde Urrutia.

Died September 23, 1973 from heart failure.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/279

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