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188357
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Books
Title
Ik beken ik heb geleefd
subtitle
Herinneringen 2
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Literary number
28
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Illustrator
Year
1978
Print Run
Second edition
Type of book
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Dimensions
11.5 x 19.5 cm
ISBN10
90-295-3233-5
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Pablo Neruda Born July 12, 1904 Died September 23, 1973 Country Chile Genre (s) poetry Pablo Neruda (Parral, July 12, 1904 - Santiago, September 23, 1973) is the pseudonym of the Chilean poet Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto (in full: Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto). He called himself Pablo Neruda after the Czech poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891), who he admired. Wanting to avoid a conflict with his parents would have played a role in this; they didn't want him to be a writer. Pablo Neruda later became his official name. Neruda was born in Parral, a town about 300 kilometers south of Santiago, where his father worked in the railways. His mother died shortly after his birth. Not long after, Neruda and his father moved to Temuco, where his father married Doña Trinidad Candia Malverde. At thirteen, Neruda sent some of his poems to the local newspaper, La Mañana. His first poem was called Entusiasmo y perseverancia (Enthusiasm and persistence). In 1920 he sent more poems to the literary magazine Selva Austral, under the pseudonym 'Pablo Neruda'. His first collection of poems, La Canción de la fiesta, was published in 1920. In 1923 he published Crepusculario, and in 1924 he published Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty poems about love and a song about despair), one of his most famous works. The diplomat Pablo Neruda was appointed Chilean consul in Spain, Madrid. In the meantime he was married on December 6, 1930 to the Indo-Dutch Maria Antonia Hagenaar, with whom he had a daughter in 1934. This child, Malva Marina, suffered from hydrocephaly, a malfunction in the drainage of the cerebrospinal fluid (hydrocephalus). At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the couple split up (after temporarily fleeing to Monaco). Pablo Neruda remarried twice more, but Malva Marina remained his only child. Gravestone of Malva Marina in a cemetery in Gouda Maria Hagenaar returned with her child to the Netherlands, where she placed it in the care of a nanny with a foster family in Gouda. The child died here on 2 March 1943 and was buried in the Vorstmanstraat cemetery, grave row M of section B, under the name Malva Marina Reijes. Neruda never paid any attention to his daughter, not even in his work. The mother, who lived in The Hague, regularly brought money to Gouda for the maintenance of the child. The Dutch poet Hagar Peeters is working on a book about the 'forgotten' Dutch child of Neruda, which will be published in 2009. A well-known work by Neruda is Canto General (1950), which has also been translated into Dutch. Canto General is an extensive work on North and Latin America. He wrote this as an exile while in hiding in 1948 and 1949, when he was persecuted by the government of Gabriel González Videla (1948-1952), who had banned the Communist Party for which Neruda had been elected as senator. Neruda was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile in 1945. In 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda, who had long been hospitalized with cancer of the prostate, died there of a heart attack in 1973. His death occurred twelve days after the violent death of his friend Salvador Allende, Chile's elected Democratic president who was killed in a bloody anti-communist, military coup was killed on September 11, 1973. The national funeral of the poet, a public rally forbidden by General Pinochet's military rulers, became the first public protest against the new military dictatorship with the sudden appearance of thousands on Chilean streets. Neruda's houses in Santiago (La Chascona), Valparaíso (La Sebastiana) and Isla Negra are now open to visitors. His works of art and possessions are exhibited there. [

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