Pablo Neruda

Students: Ángel Smith,

Mauicio Montecinos
Pablo Neruda

He was well-known as Pablo Neruda,

but he was legally registered as Ricardo
Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Born
and raised in Parral, on July 12 th of
1904, and died on September 23 rd of
1973.
Family

His parents were José del Carmen Reyes Morales, who was a
railway employee, and his mother was Rosa Neftalí Basoalto
Opazo, a schoolteacher in Parral High School. His mother
unfortunately died a month after he was born. Pablo Neruda
had a daughter named Malva Marina, the result of his
marriage to María Hagenaar.
Education

Pablo Neruda studied at the Parral High School

where, as we said before, his mother worked. He
continued there until he received a scholarship for
his poems at the University of Chile. After
completing his studies as a Language Teacher, he
devoted most of his life to politics. He never
stopped writing, so he wrote many poems known
around the world.
Career

In 1945 he was awarded the national prize

for literature and in 1971 he received the
nobel prize for literature, being the sixth
spanish-speaking writer and the third latin
american to receive such an important
distinction.
Curious facts

The first poems he wrote

were written for his mother,
inspired by photos and letters
left by his biological father.

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Curious facts

When he won the Nobel

Prize, the University of
Oxford offered him a
collaboration, but he said no
because they would take over
his poems.

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His death

He died from one day to

another since he had cancer
and no one could help him,
rejecting all the doctors who
knew about it, September 23,
1973.