Ficha de trabajo Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco, remarried doña Trinidad Candia Malverde. The poet spent his childhood and youth in Temuco, where he also got to know Gabriela Mistral, head of the girls' secondary school. At the early age of thirteen he began to contribute some articles to the daily "La Mañana", among them, Entusiasmo y Perseverancia - his first publication - and his first poem. In 1920, he became a contributor literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he adopted in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1843-1891). Some of the poems Neruda wrote the that time are to be found in his first published book: Crepusculario (1923). The following year saw the publication of Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, one of his best-known and most translated works. Alongside his literary activities, Neruda studied French and pedagogy at the University of Santiago in Chile. Between 1927 and 1935, the government put him in charge of a number of honorary consulships, which took him to Burma, Caylon, Java, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Madrid. His poetic production during that difficult period included, among other works, the collection of esoteric surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra (1933), which marked his literary breakthrough. The Spanish Civil War and the murder of García Lorca affected him strongly and made him join the Republican movement, first in Spain, and later in France, where he started working on his collection of poems España en el Corazón (1937). The same year he was recalled to his native country. He returned, and his poetry during the following period was characterized by an orientation towards political and social matters. España en el Corazón had a great impact; it was printed in the middle of the front during the civil war. 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. This work, entitled Canto General, was published in Mexico 1950, and also underground in Chile. It consists of approximately 250 poems brought together into fifteen literary cycles and constitutes the central part of Neruda's production. Shortly after its publication, Canto General was translated into some ten languages. Nearly all these poems were created in a difficult situation, when Neruda was living abroad. In 1943, Neruda returned to Chile, and in 1945 he was elected senator of the Republic, also joining the Communist Party of Chile. He protested against President González Videla's repressive policy against striking miners in 1947 and he had to live underground in his own country for two years until he managed to leave in 1949. After living in different European countries he returned home in 1952. Neruda's production is exceptionally extensive. For example, his Obras Completas, constantly republished, comprised 459 ages in 1951; in 1962 the number of pages was 1925, and in 1968 it amounted to 3237, in two volumes. Cien sonetos de amor (1959) includes poems dedicated to his wife Matilde Urrutia, Memorial de Isla Negra, a poctic work of an autobiographic character in five volumes, published on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Arte de pájaros (1966), La Bacarola (1967), the play Fulgor y muerte de Joaquin Murieta (1967), Las manos del día (1968), Fin del mundo (1969), Las piedras del cielo (1970), and La espada encendida.
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