An autobiography of writer Pablo Neruda

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Pablo Neruda
By Andrew, Ashleigh, and Sam

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Early Life
 Born in Chile on July 12, 1904
 Birth name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes
Basoalto
 Father was a Railway worker and his Mom a school teacher,
although she died when he was two months old
 Wrote his first poem in 1914

3. + Early Life Cont.
 Father didn’t want him to write at first, but many others, including a Nobel
Prize winner encouraged him
 Published his first work in 1917, an essay Enthusiasm and Perseverance
 For two more years he published essays and poems in magazines under his
birth name
 In mid 1920, he adopted his pen name, Pablo Neruda

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Early Career
 When he was 16 in 1921 he went to the University of Chile
 In 1923 his first volume of verse poems called Book of Twilights
was published
 In 1924 he published 20 love poems and a song of despair
 Two years later he published The Trying of Infinite Man
 Also in 1926, his novel, The Inhabitant in His Hope was
published

5. + Early Career Cont.
 In 1927 he took an honorary consulship in Rangoon, part of Burma
 When he returned to Chile he was given diplomatic posts in Buenas
Aires and Barcelona
 His daughter was born in 1934
 Neruda became intensely political as the Spanish Civil War started,
and became a communist
 In 1938 he wrote Spain in the Heart

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Politics
 Because of becoming a communist, he lost his political post as consul
 In 1938 he had the responsibility of shipping 2000 Spanish refugees to
Chile
 From 1940-1943 he was Consul-General in Mexico City
 In 1943 he returned to Chile
 He wrote the Canto General in 1945
 He came to admire Joseph Stalin and the USSR
 In 1948 he went into hiding
 He fled over the Andes Mts. to Argentine on horseback

7. + Politics Con.
 In 1953 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize
 Also in 1953 he returned to Chile
 In 1970 he was nominated for Chilean Presidency
 He won the the Noble Prize in 1971
 Awarded the Golden Wreath award in 1972
 He dies on September 23, 1973
 In 1974 his memoirs are published under the title I Confess I Have Lived

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Literary Work
 Neruda was a strong supporter of communism, which was
reflected in his writing by wanting the Spanish to leave his
homeland of Chile and leave them alone
 He was also very proud of Chile, his home country, which he
wrote about a lot
 He was pretty compassionate, which was also reflected in his
writing

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Works Cited
 "Pablo Neruda." Wikipedia. N.p., 2 Mar. 2012. Web. 2 Mar.
2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda>.