Tag: Pablo Neruda

• Thursday, February 22nd 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Chilean authorities reopen probe into Neruda's death

  

  Chilean authorities decided this week to launch an investigation into the Sept. 23, 1973, death of Communist poet Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Literature Nobel Prize, who is believed to have been poisoned by the military regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) less than a fortnight after seizing power in a bloody coup d'état. At that time, Neruda, 69, was said to be suffering from prostate cancer, but it is believed he was not terminally ill by then.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 21:22 UTC

  Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet was “poisoned”, says his family

  

  International experts will reveal on Wednesday that the bacteria found in the remains of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda “was in his body at the time of death,” which would prove that he was “poisoned” 12 days after the 1973 military coup, his family told EFE in an exclusive interview.

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 16:03 UTC

  Feminists oppose renaming Chile's main airport after Pablo Neruda

  

  As the project to rename Santiago's international airport is back under the spotlight, feminist groups have brought the attention to the fact that 1971 Literature Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda is not worthy of that honour.