Updated Feb 20, 2026
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Birthday
(Tuesday)
Died
Nationality
Languages
French, Spanish
Spouses
Marijke Antonieta Hagenaar Vogelzang (1930), Delia del Carril (1943-1966), Matilde Urrutia (1965-1973)
Children
1 child
Parents
José del Carmen Reyes Morales, Rosa Neftalí Basoalto Opazo
Education
University of Chile
Zodiac Sign
♋ Cancer
Chinese Zodiac
龙 Dragon
Name Origin
English < Spanish < Latin (Paulus)
Popularity
Tier B -- 36,772 Wikipedia views/month
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Year context
Born in 1904 -- Construction of the Panama Canal begins; Theodore Roosevelt was US president
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Zodiac
Year of the Dragon, sign of Cancer
AWARDS (12)
B
Atenea awarding
WON
B
Commander of the Order of the Sun of Peru
WON
B
Golden Wreath
WON
B
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
WON
Biography
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
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