Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda Born: July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile Died: Sept. 23, 1973, Santiago, Chile Awards and honors: Nobel Prize for literature, 1971; Golden Wreath Award, 1972 Life: Often called the "Whitman of the South. " Poetry included such works as "Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada" (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), "Residencia en la Tierra" (Residence on Earth), "Canto General" and "One Hundred Love Sonnets. " He was a political creature, serving in diplomatic posts and was once nominated as president.

Unearthing the mystery of Pablo Neruda's death Monday, April 8 : Did famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda die of cancer or was he poisoned? The remains of the Nobel Prize laureate will be exhumed Monday from his Isla Negra grave on the Chilean coast as authorities probe allegations that he was murdered in the wake of the 1973 military coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. The cause of death was listed at the time as advanced prostate cancer. But Neruda's chauffeur and bodyguard, Manuel Araya Osorio, came forward two years ago with a report that the 69-year-old leftist had appeared well on the morning of his death and, after suddenly becoming feverish, told of being given an injection by a doctor the previous night.

Muchas gracias, John Muncie, for your marvelous article on "Pablo Neruda's Chile" (March 17). This poet has long been my favorite. It so happens that an organization of which my wife and I are members, the Friendship Force of Los Angeles (telephone: [818] 348-2808 or [818] 998-3290), is planning a trip to Chile in November, when we will stay in homes of Chileans who are also members. Earlier, in September, we'll welcome Chileans in our homes. I've been reading Neruda's memoirs, glorious writing sheds much light on the fauna and animals of Chile.

The body of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda is being exhumed from his tomb in Chile on Monday morning in an attempt to discover whether he was poisoned by the regime of General Augusto Pinochet. A team of forensic scientists will remove Neruda from his grave in the garden of Isla Negra, the poet's beachside home on Chile's coast, where Neruda is buried next to his wife, Matilde Urrutia. The poet died suddenly on Sept. 23, 1973, at age 69, less than two weeks after the Sept.

The body of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda is being exhumed from his tomb in Chile on Monday morning in an attempt to discover whether he was poisoned by the regime of General Augusto Pinochet. A team of forensic scientists will remove Neruda from his grave in the garden of Isla Negra, the poet's beachside home on Chile's coast, where Neruda is buried next to his wife, Matilde Urrutia. The poet died suddenly on Sept. 23, 1973, at age 69, less than two weeks after the Sept.

Like forbidden love, Chile's passion for Pablo Neruda is strong and bittersweet. Once secretive and fearful, it now flourishes more openly than it ever has since the Communist poet died 14 years ago. When the armed forces seized power in 1973, Chilean bookstores cautiously hid Neruda's works. The new military government hated Communists. It still does.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, "The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance." The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me, sometimes I loved her too. How could one not have loved her great still eyes. Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

In a poet's house, anything can happen. Paintings tell time, red birds hang from the ceiling, 27 devils dance on a shelf. There are even seashells that massage your feet. A poet's house can hold the entire globe, and maps and telescopes too. Objects of desire, a Brazilian beetle pinned to a board: Everything is in a poet's house--if the poet is Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda is Chile's most beloved literary figure.

The poet and the carpenter worked together for 25 years. The poet was Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winner who championed working people and considered himself just another craftsman. The carpenter was Rafael Plaza, a sturdy man with a leathery face who built Neruda's beach house. Their never-ending work-in-progress was a house full of eclectic treasures with a view of the surf dancing on rocks.

World's End Pablo Neruda Translated from the Spanish by William O'Daly Copper Canyon Press: 96 pp., $15 paper -- "World's End," originally published in Spanish in 1969, toward the end of the career of the great poet Pablo Neruda (he died in 1973, soon after the coup that killed his friend and compatriot Chilean President Salvador Allende), is a book-length sequence that weaves together the personal and the political, the public and the private, the domestic and the global.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean authorities on Monday exhumed the body of Pablo Neruda to check claims by a former chauffeur that the Nobel Prize-winning poet may have been killed by government agents shortly after the 1973 overthrow of his friend, President Salvador Allende. Under a special tent and wearing protective clothing, a team of forensic pathologists that included a U.S. toxicologist gathered in the coastal resort town of Isla Negra to oversee the exhumation. Neruda died on Sept.

Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda's body will be exhumed and autopsied, a judge ruled this week. An investigation of Neruda's death was opened in 2011, 38 years after he died of what was said to be malnutrition or cancer. Judge Mario Carroza ordered the investigation after Chile's Communist Party filed an official request. Carroza is overseeing the cases of hundreds of Chileans who were "disappeared" during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's notoriously ruthless regime. Pinochet took over from Salvador Allende in a military coup in 1973.

Two years after starring in its premiere in Los Angeles, Placido Domingo brought “Il Postino,” the opera about the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, to Neruda's homeland. The opera by the late Daniel Catan just concluded a run at the Municipal Theater of Santiago starring Domingo, who is L.A. Opera's general director. The performances featured other leading cast members from the L.A. production. Conducting is Grant Gershon, the resident conductor of Los Angeles Opera, who also led the orchestra for the L.A. premiere.

It is said that the takeover of Chile in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet broke the heart of Pablo Neruda, the country's best-known poet. The man who wrote so openly of love and heartache could not bear to see his country in the hands of a military dictator and died days after Pinochet came to power. After his death, some Chileans said Neruda was spared the agony of seeing thousands of his countrymen killed during Pinochet's regime, which lasted until 1989. Revolutions. Dictatorships.

Daniel Catán, an opera composer and librettist whose works including "Il Postino" and "Florencia en el Amazonas" have been praised for their lyrical romanticism and humane generosity of spirit, died suddenly Saturday in Austin, Texas. He was 62. Catán's death was announced by the Butler School of Music of the University of Texas, where he was a visiting artist. The cause has not been determined. A South Pasadena resident, Catán had been commissioned by the Butler School to adapt Frank Capra's 1941 classic film "Meet John Doe" for the operatic stage.

As opera composer Daniel Catán tells the story, many years ago he had a poet friend who wrote "really wonderful erotic" verse. So one memorable evening Catán decided to try out a few lines on his girlfriend. "We ended up having a very sexy night," Catán recalled in an interview last week ahead of the world premiere of his latest work, "Il Postino" (The Postman), set for Thursday at L.A. Opera. "So I passed it on to the writer of those poems, who said, 'She should've been falling in my arms, not yours!

As opera composer Daniel Catán tells the story, many years ago he had a poet friend who wrote "really wonderful erotic" verse. So one memorable evening Catán decided to try out a few lines on his girlfriend. "We ended up having a very sexy night," Catán recalled in an interview last week ahead of the world premiere of his latest work, "Il Postino" (The Postman), set for Thursday at L.A. Opera. "So I passed it on to the writer of those poems, who said, 'She should've been falling in my arms, not yours!

"Neruda Songs," a song cycle that Peter Lieberson composed on a commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony, has won the $200,000 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The songs are based on five poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Lieberson wrote them for his wife, mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died of cancer in 2006.

World's End Pablo Neruda Translated from the Spanish by William O'Daly Copper Canyon Press: 96 pp., $15 paper -- "World's End," originally published in Spanish in 1969, toward the end of the career of the great poet Pablo Neruda (he died in 1973, soon after the coup that killed his friend and compatriot Chilean President Salvador Allende), is a book-length sequence that weaves together the personal and the political, the public and the private, the domestic and the global.