| 1974 |
April:
Libro de las preguntas, Elegía, Defectos escogidos, Jardín
de invierno, 2000, El corazón amarillo, and his memoirs
Confieso que he vivido are published.
May 7th: Neruda’s remains are moved to
niche 44, México block, at the Cementerio General, where
there were always carnations and some spontaneous writings paying
homage and remembering him.
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| 1975 |
Pablo Neruda, a basic anthology is published in England by The
Dolphins Book. It is an excellent anthology for English readers
put together by Robert Pring-Mill, friend of the poet and very
familiar with his work. This selection also includes a long
preliminary study, also by Pring-Mill.
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| 1977 |
| Alain
Sicard’s La pensee poetique de Pablo Neruda, one of
the most complete and deep studies on the poet’s work,
is published in France. The Spanish translation, El pensamiento
poético de Pablo Neruda, is published in 1981 by Gredos.
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| 1984 |
Release of Volodia Teitelboim’s Neruda, one of the most
important biographies of the poet.
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| 1985 |
His
widow, Matilde Urrutia, dies. She had become an important advocate
of the human rights violated by the dictatorship and devoted
her self to keep the poet’s spiritual and material patrimony,
propelling the creation of the Pablo Neruda Foundation.
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| 1986 |
The
Pablo Neruda Foundation acquires full legal existence with the
publication in the Diario Ofiacil of the Secretary of Justice’s
Supreme Decree 368, on june 4th, 1986. His immediate legal precedent
is Matilde Urrutia’s will, which gives form to the Foundation,
outlines its rules and appoints its directors or counsellors.
Mi vida junto a Pablo, book in which Matilde remembers his years
living with the poet, is released.
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| 1992 |
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December 11th: Matilde Urrutia and Neruda’s
remains are exhumed and carried to a ceremonial wake in the
ex National Congress Honour Room.
December 12th: the poet’s will is accomplished
19 years after his death: his body is buried in Isla Negra,
facing the sea he loved and sang about so much. The ceremony’s
only speech was pronounced by President Patricio Aylwin.
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| 1999 |
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Release of Obras Completas de Pablo Neruda’s First Volume,
edited by Hernán Loyola, published by Galaxia Gutenberg
- Círculo de Lectores. This collection, which compiles
all the books written by Neruda as well as his writings printed
elsewhere, was completed in 2002 with the release of volume
V.
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| 2000 |
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Edmundo Olivares’ biographic trilogy Tras las huellas
del poeta itinerante begins with the edition of Los caminos
de Oriente. The sequel continues with Los caminos del mundo
and Los caminos de América.
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| 2002 |
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July 12th: President Ricardo Lagos Escobar signs a Decree
that creates a highest level commission to commemorate the
100tth anniversary of Pablo Neruda’s birth.
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| 2004 |
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The 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth is brightly
celebrated with several and diverse activities around the
world.
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