Pablo neruda biography for kids

Pablo Neruda is the pen name of the Chilean poet Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda was born on July 12, 1904 in Parral[?], Chile. His mother died soon after he was born and his father was a railway employee.

Neruda and his father soon moved to Temuco[?], where his father remarried Dona Trinidad Candia Malverde. At thirteen, he submitted a few of his poems to the daily newspaper, La Manana. His first poem was titled "Entusiasmo y perseverencia", or "Enthusiasm and Perseverance".

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In 1920 he sent more poems to the literary journal Selva Austral under the pen name Pablo Neruda. He used a pen name to avoid conflict with his parents because they did not want him to become an author. He eventually got his name legally changed to Pablo Neruda (after Jan Neruda, Czech writer and poet).

Neruda had his first poems published in Crepusculario. The following year he published his second book of poems, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, or Twenty Poems