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Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party. Friends hid him for months, and in , he escaped through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina; he would not return to Chile for more than three years. He was a close advisor to Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende , and when he got back to Chile after accepting his Nobel Prize in Stockholm , Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70, people.

Although it was long reported that he died of heart failure, the interior ministry of the Chilean government issued a statement in acknowledging a ministry document indicating the government's official position that "it was clearly possible and highly likely" that Neruda was killed as a result of "the intervention of third parties".

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Neruda is often considered the national poet of Chile, and his works have been popular and influential worldwide. On 26 September, he was baptized in the parish of San Jose de Parral. Neruda's father opposed his son's interest in writing and literature, but he received encouragement from others, including the future Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral , who headed the local school.

He is thought to have derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda , [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] though other sources say the true inspiration was Moravian violinist Wilma Neruda , whose name appears in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel A Study in Scarlet. In , at the age of 16, Neruda moved to Santiago [ 15 ] to study French at the Universidad de Chile with the intention of becoming a teacher.

However, he soon devoted all his time to writing poems, and with the help of well-known writer Eduardo Barrios , [ 22 ] he managed to meet and impress Don Carlos George Nascimento, the most important publisher in Chile at the time. Both works were critically acclaimed and have been translated into many languages. A second edition of Veinte poemas appeared in In the years since its publication, millions of copies have been sold, and it became Neruda's best-known work.

Almost years later, Veinte Poemas is still the best-selling poetry book in the Spanish language. In , Neruda published the collection tentativa del hombre infinito venture of the infinite man and the novel El habitante y su esperanza The Inhabitant and His Hope.