Introduction to Neruda

Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto (Spanish: Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto; July 12, 1904 - September 23, 1973), known by the pen name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean diplomat and poet, and 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Neruda was born in Parral, a small town in central Chile, to José del Carmen Reyes Morales, a railroad worker, and Rosa Basoalto de Reyes, an elementary school teacher.

Shortly after his birth, his mother died of severe tuberculosis, and at the age of two Neruda moved with his father to the city of Temuco, where his father married a woman (Candia Marvedre). Neruda loved his stepmother very much, and many pages of his later poems are dedicated to this mother.

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Neruda's life was characterized by his love for his mother. p>Neruda's life had two themes, one political and the other love. His early collection of love poems, Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair, is considered one of his most famous works.

In 1930, Neruda married María Antonieta Hagenaar, a Dutchwoman, in Java; they had major ideological differences, and the two divorced nine years later. Thereafter, Neruda spent some time with a French girl.

In 1943, Neruda married his second wife, the Argentine painter Delia del Carril, divorcing in 1955. A few years later, Neruda met the love of his life, the Chilean chanteuse Matilde Urrutia (May 5, 1912 - January 5, 1985),

In 1960, Neruda dedicated Cien Sonetos De Amor (One Hundred Love Sonnets) to Urrutia, whom he considered to be the most like him. him the most, that they were both children of the land of Chile, and that Urrutia was his love and inspiration. They married in 1966 and had a happy married life.

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