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  Pablo Neruda
Neruda married in 1966 the Chilean singer Matilde Urrutia.
Neruda was especially impressed by the vastness of Russia, its birch forests, and rivers.
Neruda is recognized to be among the major poets of the 20th century.
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 Pablo Neruda - MSN Encarta
A political radical, Neruda became prominent in the Chilean Communist Party and served in the Chilean Senate from 1945 to 1948.
The style of Neruda’s early work was characteristic of the symbolist movement, whose writers expressed their ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols or suggestions rather than by direct statements.
In this process, Neruda moves from the examination of his private life to an acceptance of his role as a public voice for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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 Pablo Neruda - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Neruda's reputation was growing both inside and outside of Chile, but he was plagued by poverty.In 1927, out of desperation, he took an honorary consulship in Rangoon, then a part of colonial Burma and a place of which he had never before heard.
On March 4 1945 Neruda was elected a Communist party senator for the northern provinces of Antofagasta and Tarapacá in the arid and inhospitable Atacama Desert.
Neruda's criticism of González Videla culminated in a dramatic speech in the Chilean senate on 6 January 1948 called Yo acuso ("I accuse"), in the course of which he read out the names of the miners and their families who were imprisoned at the concentration camp.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Pablo_Neruda   (3213 words)

  
 Memoirs - Pablo Neruda
Neruda travelled extensively throughout his life, and was a truly international literary figure long before the jet-setting authors of the current day.
Neruda devotes some space to the writing of this or that volume of his poetry, but rarely is there more than a paragraph about any particular collection.
Neruda describes his 1971 Nobel triumph nicely too, admitting it was a longed-for honour and certainly pleased by it, without taking it all too seriously.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/nerudap/memorias.htm   (1322 words)

  
 Pablo Neruda Biography
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile.
In 1939, Neruda was appointed consul for the Spanish emigration, residing in Paris, and, shortly
In 1943, Neruda returned to Chile, and in 1945 he was elected senator of the Republic, also joining the Communist Party of Chile.
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 AllRefer.com - Pablo Neruda (Latin American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Pablo Neruda[pA´blO nArOO´thA] Pronunciation Key, 1904–73, Chilean poet, diplomat, and Communist leader, whose original name was NeftalI Ricardo Reyes Basualto.
Neruda was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature during his service as Chilean ambassador to France.
Neruda died in Chile during the week of the 1973 military coup.
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 Pablo Neruda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile on July 12, 1904.
Neruda's capacity for joy and reverence toward life is especially evident in works such as Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924) and 100 Love Sonnets (1960).
Neruda was often forced by politics or financial troubles to abandon his friends, his country, and even his wives; in such times the passion he had reserved for these loves often turned inward and resulted in a gnawing loneliness.
www.multiworld.org /m_versity/althinkers/neruda.htm   (779 words)

  
 Red Poppy: Pablo Neruda, Peace, Poetry, Love
As Gabriel García Márquez wrote, Chilean Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda was “the greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language.” His words and their history remain extremely vital today.
The tones of Pablo Neruda's poems are a river of red poppies, the earth, red wine, horses’ breaths, rain, and the silver stones of Macchu Picchu.
Neruda was much more than a Nobel Prize winning poet.
www.redpoppy.net /pablo_neruda.php   (190 words)

  
 Pablo Neruda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neruda was accomplished in a wide variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos.
Neruda was born in Parral, a city in Linares province in the Maule Region, some 350 km south of Santiago.
Pablo Neruda, the poetics of prophecy / Santí, Enrico Mario., 1982
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 Review | The Poetry of Pablo Neruda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The son of a railway engineer, Neruda wrote poetry from an early age and won prizes as a teenager.
Neruda watched the bombardment of Madrid, and lost his friend, the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, to Nationalist assassins.
In 1970 Neruda was diagnosed with cancer, which surgeries failed to remove entirely.
www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/neruda.html   (1687 words)

  
 A man of great faith and folly / Film pays tribute to Pablo Neruda as a man, poet, politician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During his lifetime, Pablo Neruda became the world's most famous poet -- a giant of a man who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, counted Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera as close friends and was so politically active that he became a senator in his native Chile.
Neruda left this family when he moved to Spain, where he got involved with another woman and further established himself as a poet of note.
Neruda's early years also were filled with melancholy, we learn, but in between, Neruda lived the sort of life that most people only dream of.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/12/DDGTR7JG8I1.DTL   (659 words)

  
 Neruda
Neruda was able to return to Chile in 1952, finally both wealthy and widely respected.
Neruda was interested in both national and international aspects of literature.
Neruda’s greatest literary success was his ability to approach the grandiose and the minute, the tragic and the joyous, with equal patience and reverence.
www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Neruda.html   (978 words)

  
 SULAIR: Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet and political hero, Pablo Neruda is often viewed as a visionary.
Although President Gonzalez Videla was a Radical and part of the Frente Popular (an alliance of Communist and Radical Parties), and had given three seats in his cabinet to communists, mining strikes in 1946 provoked general strikes, leading to an escalating social conflict with spurred the President to impose a state of siege.
Neruda gives Chile numerous gifts while she sleeps--gifts created in his lyrical poems about everyday objects.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/german/exhibit/GDRposters/neruda.html   (680 words)

  
 Pablo Neruda - the poet and his poetry
Pablo Neruda was already famous in Chile as a poet-explorer of women and of nature.
It was the Spanish Civil War, it's ordinary atrocities as much as the death of his friend Lorca,that began Neruda's drive to create a poetry for and of the people.
Allende became the President and Neruda was appointed ambassador in Paris, and while serving there in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 Poetry: Pablo Neruda
This site, which is maintained by a fan of Neruda, contains a brief biography of the poet, several short essays about his work, and the texts to a number of his poems, including a few in the original Spanish.
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was born in Parral, Chile, the son of a railroad worker.
His vast literary output won many prizes and honors, although American readers found it difficult to separate his poetry from his politics, he was, at his prime, generally considered to be the greatest poet writing in Spanish.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/neruda.htm   (251 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda: Books: Pablo Neruda,Ilan Stavans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Passionate and prolific, Neruda himself was a force of nature, filling 35 books with poetry remarkable for its "simplicity, honesty, and conviction." Critic Ilan Stavans has created the first comprehensive English-language survey of Neruda's legendary oeuvre, judiciously selecting and expertly discussing 600 poems to create a genuinely invaluable and deeply pleasurable volume.
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
Back in Chile, Neruda decided to use his talent to further his political causes and his style became more and more simple, as it was directed to the masses rather than to the literary elite.
www.amazon.com /Poetry-Pablo-Neruda/dp/0374299951   (1940 words)

  
 PREVIEW: Bad Poet, Bad Man
The admirers of Neruda are tourists in their approach to Hispanic literature, like people who attend a flamenco dance performance and think they have seen Spain--but with a politically correct edge.
Neruda was a figure promoted to global literary stardom by the creators and bestowers of the Stalin Peace Prize, which he received in 1953.
Federico García Lorca said of Neruda, "he is closer to blood than to ink;" it was an insight of great depth, far beyond its author's knowing--and today, unbelievably enough, the reputation of García Lorca has been annexed to, and overshadowed by, that of Neruda.
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 Pablo Neruda, Poet, Nobel Prize, Chile, Garcia Lorca, Lenin Peace Prize
Pablo Neruda let the rivers and the forests enter him with the wind and the songs of the streets.
They show Neruda at his most surrealisticNeruda used obscure and violent imagery to convey a sense of universal chaos.
Neruda was continually changing his approach to poetry.
www.bluesforpeace.com /neruda.htm   (277 words)

  
 Pablo Neruda - Biography
In 1920, he became a contributor to the literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he adopted in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891).
In 1939, Neruda was appointed consul for the Spanish emigration, residing in Paris, and, shortly afterwards, Consul General in Mexico, where he rewrote his Canto General de Chile, transforming it into an epic poem about the whole South American continent, its nature, its people and its historical destiny.
Nearly all these poems were created in a difficult situation, when Neruda was living abroad.
nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1971/neruda-bio.html   (734 words)

  
 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Pablo Neruda
In 1927, Neruda began his long career as a diplomat in the Latin American tradition of honoring poets with diplomatic assignments.
Neruda's outspoken sympathy for the loyalist cause during the Spanish Civil War led to his recall from Madrid in 1937.
Neruda returned to Chile in 1938 where he renewed his political activity and wrote prolifically.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/279   (685 words)

  
 Biography of Pablo Neruda
Neruda continued to write for several literary and other magazines, among them La Nacion, El Sol, and Revista de Occidente.
After Neruda ended his affair with the possessive and violently jealous Josie Bliss, he married in 1930 Maria Antonieta Hagenaar, a Dutch woman who couldn't speak Spanish; they separated in 1936.
He remained faithful to "el partido" when other intellectual had rejected Moscow's leash; poetry was not for Neruda simply an expression of emotions and personality, it was "a deep inner calling in man; from it came liturgy, the psalms, and also the content of religions." (from Memoirs, 1974).
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 Pablo Neruda — Infoplease.com
Marking the centennial of Pablo Neruda's birth: a review of his selected works.
A 25 años de su muerte, desvirtuada la herancia de Pablo Neruda en Chile: tres casas, la biblioteca y su colección de caracolas.
Life, the fiesta: Pablo Neruda's dark rhymes and joyful rhythms come alive in a new biography.(reading room)(Pablo Neruda: A Passion......
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 Article : In memory of.. Augustus Pablo.
Something else that Augustus Pablo had in his favour was an uncanny knack for picking on unlikely or unknown vocalists to sing or toast over his riddims, not only providing the public with good music but also the chance to hear what these people could do given the opportunity.
This was the album that set Augustus Pablo firmly on the musical map as a leading figure in the burgeoning rebel rock movement that immediately preceded the Rastafarian inspired roots music that dominated the rest of the decade and sealed reggae musics role as a vehicle for the dissipation of social protest and spiritual inspiration.
Pablo's first self-produced instrumental (as opposed to dub) set is a timeless expression of vision and inspiration.
www.reggae-vibes.com /concert/augpablo/augpablo.htm   (2755 words)

  
 DFW International
Born in Chile on July 12, 1904, Pablo Neruda created romantic and epic poetry as well as drama and prose that captured the essence of America.
He was a diplomat, an ambassador to France, a communist senator, a candidate for the presidency of Chile, a political fugitive, the winner of the World Peace Prize.
Neruda was known as the "poet of the people", the voice for the voiceless who fought passionately for social justice.
www.dfwinternational.org /neruda   (351 words)

  
 Pablo Neruda at 100 (washingtonpost.com)
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of Neruda's birth, and no celebration would be more fitting than to go down to the shore and read aloud his poems.
Neruda was born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes y Basualto in 1904 in Parral, central Chile.
The family moved to the frontier town of Temuco in southern Chile, where Neruda was raised in a land of powerful solitude, luxuriant nature and endless rain.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A37885-2004Jul8.html   (656 words)

  
 Pablo Neruda | Chilean Poet | Political Activist | Questia.com Online Library
Pablo Neruda and the construction of past and future...by Mark J. Mascia THE POETRY OF PABLO NERUDA, the Chilean Nobelist, has most often...States specifically--is not...
Pablo Neruda by Edward Hirsch Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes y Basualto in 1904 in Parral...coup that ousted Salvador Allende.
Pablo Neruda and the German Literary Exile Community...influence of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda on the creative efforts of German...translated for the...
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 Pablo Neruda Winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature
Pablo Neruda Winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature
Residence on Earth/Residencia en la Tierra by Pablo Neruda.
Pablo Neruda's poems in Turkish translation (submitted by Ismail Aksoy)
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 Pablo Neruda from HarperCollins Publishers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile.
He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), uno de los poetas másreconocidos del siglo veinte, nació en Parral, Chile.
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