• Wives:
-Maryka Antonieta Hagenaar Vogelzang: Pablo's
first wife, a dutch woman he met in Java during
diplomatic service.
-Delia del Carril: Pablo's second wife, an older
Argentine woman.
Children:
-Malva Marina Trinidad: Pablo's daughter and
only child, was born with Maryka, and
unfortunately died due to health problems at the
age of 9.
• April 18, 1921
He meets Rosa Albertina Azócar, colleague of the Pedagogical
Institute, muse of several poems from his book “Twenty Love Poems
and a Song of Despair”.
October 1927
During his stay in Burma he has an intense and conflictive affair with a
native who, as he himself says, "... dressed as an Englishwoman,
and his street name was Josie Bliss." In his memoirs, the poet
wrote: "The sweet Josie Bliss was concentrated and passionate to
become sick with jealousy. If wouldn’t be for that maybe I would
have continued indefinitely with her. "She was the inspiration for
several poems, including “Widower's Tango.
1930
6 December 1930
Marries Marie Antoinette Haagenar
Vogelzang.
1934
August 18: In Madrid borns his daughter Malva Marina Trinidad after a
long and complicated birth. The girl suffers from hydrocephalus.
Neruda arrived one night to the house of Morla Lynch, Neruda meets
Delia del Carril, who later became his second wife.
1936
July: Maria Antonieta Hagenaar and Malva Marina move to Barcelona.
Neruda began to live with Delia del Carril.
December: he travels to Marseilles with his wife, Maria Antonieta
Hagenaar and her daughter, Malva Marina. Later, both will travel to
Montecarlo, later in 1937, they moved to Holland.
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1938
August 18: dies the "mamadre" Trinidad Candia Marverde, for whom Neruda felt
great affection and to whom he dedicated a poem in his book “Memorial of Isla
Negra”.
1942
May 3: at the Official Journal of Cuernavaca is published the divorce decree of
Neruda with Maria Antonieta Hagenaar.
1943
March 2: in Holland, a nation occupied by the Germans, his daughter Malva Marina
dies "without pain", as the cable which communicates the news from Switzerland
said.
July 2: married Delia del Carril, in the city of Tetecala, state of Morelos.
Subsequently, this wedding will be declared illegal by the Chilean courts.
1946
In the spring of this year, Neruda met Matilde Urrutia at a concert in the Forestal Park
of Santiago. Over time, Matilde will be his third wife and her main muse for love
poetry.
Neruda married Matilde Urrutia, a Chilean singer, who was his inspiration for his later
poetry.
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1951
August: Matilde Urrutia arrived in Paris.
In her memories, she remembers, "that taste of sin, to be lying, to hide, to conceal, was the
biggest incentive for our love, those furtive glances through a table, the complicity of every minute
was something that grew the desire to be together, to touch us, and this desire is devouring us,
drags us to the conviction that we cannot live separately..."
"The poet sometimes sowed confusion - adds Teitelboim. He hid long weeks or months, his
whereabouts and gave false tracks. “
Neruda and Matilde meet in Bucharest. the first poem that Neruda wrote to Matilde was "Always",
that night was born his book “The Captain's Verses”.
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Late December: the poet makes plans to celebrate the New Year in Rome, but changes his plans
when the painter Paolo Ricci invites him to his home in Naples where he travels by train with Delia
del Carril, Nemesio Antunez, Inés Figueroa, Matilde and the same Ricci. As the writer José Miguel
Varas says: “Neruda was trying to surround himself with friends and traveling with them, so
Matilde could be unnoticed in the group.
December 31: the group of Neruda spends New Year's party in a villa that a king of Savoy had
built for his mistress. They ended the celebration at a trattoria nearby.
• 1952
• January 8: he travels to Naples where he
settled in the Maurice guesthouse with Matilde.
January 15: Delia del Carril travels to Chile to
prepare the return of Neruda
• January 23: he moved to Capri with Matilde
Urrutia. The poet says: "... for the first time we
lived together in the same house. We could
never be separate again. I ended up there to
write a book of love, passionate and painful, (...)
“The Captain's Verses".
1952
• "The poems were written here and there along my exile in Europe.
They were published anonymously in Naples in 1952. The love for
Matilde, the longing for Chile, the civil passions fill the pages of this
book to be kept without the author's name for many editions. (...)
Some suspicious critics attributed political motives to the
appearance of this book without signing (...) The only truth is that I
didn’t wanted that these problems wounded to Delia, whom I was
separated. Delia del Carril, passing very smooth, wire and honey
tied my hands in the early sound, she was for me for eighteen years
an exemplary partner. This book is sharp and fiery passion, it would
come like a stone dropped on his tender structure. These were the
reasons and no other reasons of my anonymity. "
• nd of July: Neruda embarks with Matilde in Cannes, in the Giulio
Cesare bound to South America. On the journey they meet a pair of
Uruguay: Alberto and Olga Mántaras, which invite them to his home
in Atlantida, 40 kilometers from Montevideo. This would be a shelter
of his secret love.
1953
• He stars building the house on the slopes of the
San Cristobal Hill, which named "The
Chascona”, one of the nicknames he gave to
Matilda.
• 1955
• February: there is a definitive break with Delia
del Carril. He starts living with Matilde Urrutia.
Hernán Loyola describes his separation from
Delia as "the first stage of a major crisis that
includes the break with lifelong friends such as
Tomas Lagos." The poet retires for a while of the
public life and retreats to private life.
• In 1953 Neruda was awarded the Stalin
Peace Prize. On Stalin's death that same
year, Neruda wrote an ode to him
1959
• November: appears the private edition of 300
copies of “One Hundred Love Sonnets” printed
in the University Santiago of Chile Editions. This
is one of the greatest love poems of Neruda,
which celebrates the completion of his love with
Matilde Urrutia, his third wife and the most
important of his muses.
• 1965 first wife dies
• 1966October 28: he married Matilde Urrutia
• September 24, 1971 died Pablo Neruda.
her friends found her in the bed, crying,
wondering if he had loved her.