Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda, whose real name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July 1904 in Parral, Chile; his father was a railway employee. Consul in Asia from 1927 to 1935, then in Spain, he was overwhelmed by the civil war and the murder of García Lorca. Elected senator in 1945, he then lived in hiding before leaving the country in 1949. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, he died on 23 September 1973 in Santiago.

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