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Painting , Oil Color On Canvas
Pablo Neruda _ 50 x 70 cm , 2014 _ By Ali Malek
_Pablo Neruda" diplomat, senator and poet was born on July 12, 1904 in a city 400 kilometers south of Santiago.
His real name was Naftali Ricardo Eliser Reyes Basualto, but he chose the pseudonym Pablo Neruda. Pablo's father was a railway employee and his mother was a secretary.
Pablo Neruda lost his mother when he was 2 months old, and after that Pablo and his father settled in the city of Temuco. He had a great interest and passion for writing since childhood, and despite his father's displeasure, the people around him encouraged and admired him. Gabriel Mistral, who is one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, also encouraged him.
At the age of 16, Pablo published his first article through a local newspaper.
His presence at the University of Chile in Santiago made him famous with the publication of his collection of poems, and he got to know other poets and writers.
He was a government employee for a while and went to Burma and Indonesia to do other things. It was at the same time that the civil war began in Spain.
During this war, Pablo became a supporter of communism and became very involved in politics. In those days, Pablo met and became friends with Federico García Lorca.
Before the war, he was assigned to the Chilean consulate in Barcelona and the Chilean consul in Madrid, but after the war, Pablo became the Chilean consul in Paris and helped a lot by transferring war refugees to France.
After that, he traveled to Mexico and was criticized by many people for helping and sheltering David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican painter), who was suspected of collaborating in Trotsky's murder.
He returned to Chile in 1943 and later traveled to Peru and wrote a poem due to the impact of seeing the ruins of Machu Picchu.
In 1945, he worked as a communist senator in the Chilean Senate, and a few months later, he officially became a member of the Communist Party of Chile.
A year later, after the suppression of labor struggles and the Communist Party began, Pablo made a strong and outspoken speech against the government of the time, which led him to live in hiding for a while.
In the late forties (1949), he fled the Argentine border on a horse. Pablo, who resembled Asturias (his poet and writer friend who won the Nobel Prize in Literature), used his passport to travel to Paris.
He traveled to many countries and cities and settled in Mexico for a while and wrote the famous poetry of the people in the same period.
In the 1950s, he returned to Chile and in the 1960s, he criticized American policies and the Vietnam War.
In 1966, he appeared at the conference of the International Pen Association in New York. Being a communist, the American government refused to grant him a visa, but finally, with the efforts of American writers, especially Arthur Miller, he was granted a visa.
In 1970, Pablo became a presidential candidate, but he supported Salvador Allende. Pablo won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda died on September 23, 1973 at the age of 69.