Pablo Neruda

Many people come to my mind when I think of a great person, musicians, artists, scientists, man and woman, all of them with something that made them special and worth of admiration, so it gets difficult to choose just one, but i think i’ll choose someone who represents in a very poetical way the essence of our conutry, of its landscapes and its beautiful little and big details,

It’s a poet, a very famous one, Pablo neruda, maybe he was’nt the GREATEST chilean, but he is known all around the world for its poetical and political work, two apparently opposite activities, he was even called “the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He weas born in 1904 and died in 1973, his first publications were in 1917, but he wrote since he was a child, and he was influenced by gabriela mistral and by the green humid lanscapes of southern chile.

He also did a very important and nomad diplomatic career that started in Birmania and finished in Chile, and from its long journeys around the wrold he accquired inspiration for its poetical work that  worships nature and human being.

Being ambassador in spain he gets in touch with the civil war and he compromises with the republican forces, he brought in the “winnipeg”  2.000 spanish refugees to Chile from France.

In 1949 he is exiled from chile beacuse of being a communist in videla’s government, so he lives in clandestinity through the chileans south and he crosses to argentina by the forests, and then starts a life in europe, where he is received by Picasso. From there, he tralves all around europe and recieves the international prize of Peace. In the fifties he returns to Chile and in 1971 he wins the nobel rpice of literature.

He sadly dies after the coup, 23 sept, of 1973, some people say he died of sadness.

He deserves to be one of the greatests of chile because of his adventourous life, his work as politician, and as a poet, because of winning the admiration of people all around the world and being known as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.