Read the bio below and try to give details on pablo neruda 's: - signature - influences - awards - name Bio: pablo neruda -lrb- ; -rrb- was the pen name and , later , legal name of the chilean poet-diplomat and politician neftali ricardo reyes basoalto -lrb- july 12 , 1904 -- september 23 , 1973 -rrb- . he derived his pen name from the czech poet jan neruda . he won the nobel prize for literature in 1971 . neruda became known as a poet when he was 10 years old . he wrote in a variety of styles , including surrealist poems , historical epics , overtly political manifestos , a prose autobiography , and erotically charged love poems such as the ones in his collection '' twenty love poems and a song of despair '' -lrb- 1924 -rrb- . he often wrote in green ink , which was his personal symbol for desire and hope . the colombian novelist gabriel garcia marquez once called neruda '' the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language . '' harold bloom included neruda as one of the 26 writers central to the '' western tradition '' in his book '' '' . on july 15 , 1945 , at pacaembu stadium in sao paulo , brazil , neruda read to 100,000 people in honor of the communist revolutionary leader luis carlos prestes . during his lifetime , neruda occupied many diplomatic positions and served a term as a senator for the chilean communist party . when president gonzalez videla outlawed communism in chile in 1948 , a warrant was issued for neruda 's arrest . friends hid him for months in the basement of a house in the port city of valparaiso . later , neruda escaped through a mountain pass near maihue lake into argentina . years later , neruda was a close advisor to chile 's socialist president salvador allende . when neruda returned to chile after his nobel prize acceptance speech , allende invited him to read at the estadio nacional before 70,000 people . neruda was hospitalised with cancer at the time of the coup d'etat led by augusto pinochet . on 23 september 1973 , neruda died of prostate cancer in his house in isla negra . pinochet , backed by elements of the armed forces , denied permission for neruda 's funeral to be made a...
- signature is firma pablo neruda.svg- influences is vicente walt whitman , arthur rimbaud , charles baudelaire , karl huidobro marx , marcel proust , surrealism , ruben dario , jan francisco de quevedo , neruda , federico garcia lorca ,- awards is international peace prize- name is pablo neruda