| 1959 |
January:
he travels to Valenzuela stopping in Paita, Perú and
Buenaventura, Colombia.
January 26th: encounter with Fidel Castro at
Cuba’s Caracas embassy.
He makes short trips through different areas of Venezuela, going
back to Chile in April.
November 5th: Navegaciones y regresos is released,
Losada publishers, Buenos Aires.
Mid November: he travels to the cities of Rancagua,
San Fernando, Parral and Linares with a Communist Party delegation.
November: private 300 copies edition of Cien
sonetos de amor, Santiago de Chile.
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| 1960 |
Summer
in Isla Negra. He starts writing Canción de gesta, a
poetry book paying homage to the Cuban Revolution.
March: he travels to Montevideo.
End of March: he finishes Canción de
gesta aboard the transatlantic Louis Lumière, on his
way to Europe.
Early April: he arrives in Paris.
April/ May/ June: trip to the USSR to take
part in the deliberations of the Lenin Prize (formerly Stalin)
jury, and to Cracow, Poland. He goes from there to Budapest
and Romania.
He spends a season in Paris in August and September. He leaves
to Italy in September.
November: he goes back to Paris and in Marseille
he embarks to Havana (Cuba), with stops in Venezuela and Haiti.
The Book Canción de Gesta is published by the Imprenta
Nacional de Cuba in a 25.000 copies edition.
December 14th: definitive edition of Cien sonetos
de amor, Losada publishers, Buenos Aires.
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| 1961 |
| January
9th: he returns to Chile after a brief stay in Mexico.
He travels around the country supporting the communist party
candidates in congress electoral campaign.
He’s pronounced illustrious guest of the cities of Cañete,
Lebu and Curanilahue.
He is made correspondent member of the Yale University Romance
Languages Institute.
Junes 26th: Las piedras de Chile, with photos
by Antonio Quintana, Losada publishers, Buenos Aires.
September 18th: Opening of “La Sebastiana”,
his house in Florida Hill, Valparaíso.
October 31st: Release of Cantos ceremoniales,
Losada publishers, Buenos Aires.
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| 1962 |
January / June: Rio de Janeiro magazine O Cruzeiro
Internacional publishes Las vidas del poeta: Memorias y recuerdos
de Pablo Neruda in ten Spanish and Portuguese consecutive issues.
These texts will be the foundations for Confieso que he vivido.
He participates together with other Latin-Americans intellectuals,
in the Universidad de Concepcion summer classes.
March 30th: he’s given the grade of honorary
academic member of the Universidad de Chile Faculty of Philosophy
and Education. At the induction ceremony, he reads a speech
titled “Mariano Latorre, Pedro Prado and my own shadow”.
Trip to Europe with Matilde Urrutia.
June / July: he travels by sea to Athens, Istambul,
Varna and Odessa. From July 9th through 14th he’s in Moscow
to take part in the World Peace and Disarmament Congress.
In early September, he embarks towards America, following the
same route of 1952.
September 6th: release of Plenos poderes, Losada
publishers, Buenos Aires.
After a brief stay in Uruguay, he returns to Chile.
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| 1963 |
February: The Italian translation of Veinte
poemas de amor y una canción desesperada is awarded with
the Valentino Prize.
He appears on radio and in several public manifestations during
the campaign previous to the ordinary city councils’ election.
Sumario. Libro donde nace la lluvia, is published by famous
printer Alberto Tallone in a limited edition of 285 copies.
This is the first part of Memorial de Isla Negra.
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| 1964 |
| February:
he works on the correction of Memorial de Isla Negra and on
the translation of Romeo and Juliet.
Literary critic Raúl Silva Castro publishes the essay
Pablo Neruda.
Memorial de Isla Negra’s five volumes are released by
Losada publishers, Buenos Aires.
August 7th through September 3rd: the National
Library hosts a series of lectures on his work.
He takes part in Salvador Allende’s third presidential
campaign.
September 9th: his translation of William
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is published by Losada,
Buenos Aires.
October 10th: Universidad de Chile’s
Drama Institute premieres Romeo y Julieta, directed by Eugenio
Guzmán after the poet’s translation.
The first important biographical work on Neruda, Margarita
Aguirre’s Genio y figura de Pablo Neruda, is published.
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