Pablo Neruda - Paris, France - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

Located at the Chilean Embassy at 2 Avenue De La Motte Picouer in Paris, this plaque remembers (translated into English):

"Chilean Poet
PABLO NERUDA
1904-1973
Ambassador of Chile
Nobel Prize in Literature
Lived in This House
From 1971 to 1973"

Neruda won the Nobel Prize in 1971. He also served as a Chilean Senator and in other diplomatic posts.
Wikipedia adds:
"In 1923, his first volume of verse, Crepusculario (Book of Twilights), was published, followed the next year by Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair),[6] a collection of love poems that was controversial for its eroticism, especially considering its author's young age. Both works were critically acclaimed and were translated into many languages. Over the decades, Veinte poemas would sell millions of copies and become Neruda's best-known work, though it did not go to a second edition until 1932.[6] By the age of 20, Neruda had established an international reputation as a poet, but was facing poverty.[6] In 1926, he published the collection Tentativa del hombre infinito (The trying of infinite man) and the novel Tentativa y su esperanza (The inhabitant and his hope). In 1927, out of financial desperation, he took an honorary consulship in Rangoon, then a part of colonial Burma and a place of which he had never heard before. Later, mired in isolation and loneliness, he worked stints in Colombo (Ceylon), Batavia (Java), and Singapore. In Java he met and married his first wife, a Dutch bank employee named Maryka Antonieta Hagenaar Vogelzang. While on diplomatic service, Neruda read large amounts of poetry and experimented with many different poetic forms. He wrote the first two volumes of Residencia En La Tierra, which included many surrealistic poems."

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