Neruda, the inhabited man The biography of the poet
Chile and the language A pressure cooker
50 years after the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, the Swedish Academy has declassified the releases that led to that ruling.
The Svenska Dagbladet
newspaper
has published the minutes of those days and has revealed that some members of the jury already
sensed that the election of Neruda was going to be a problem
in the history of the Nobel Prize.
AndersÖsterling, the director of the jury in 1971, said then that he admired in Neruda "the powerful naturalness and dynamic vitality" of the Chilean's work, but that he also feared that his communist ideology would go against the meaning of the Nobel Prize. "
The ideology of an author, be he Marxist, syndicalist, anarchist or whatever he wants to be, belongs to the domain of his personal freedom
. The problem with Neruda is that his ideology has become a complete compromise and that it includes hymns to Stalin and other pieces of pure propaganda. Considering these facts, I have objections towards his candidacy, although they are not exclusive ". Österling then recalled that the basis for the award
required bringing together literary merit and humanistic idealism
.
90 candidates were considered for the 1971 Nobel Prize. In addition to Neruda, the Latin Americans José María Arguedas, Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpentier
were in the selection
.
Henrich Böll, Elias Canetti, Günter Grass, Graham Greene, Eugéne Ionesco and André Malraux were also candidates.
WH Auden and Patrick White were tied for Nobel Prize finalists.
The Academy's ruling was announced on September 13, 1971.
Just two years later, the Chilean Army staged a coup d'état
and unleashed a brutal repression campaign
against the Chilean communists
.
Neruda, sick with cancer, was not arrested, although it has been reported many times that it has been clarified whether the military government precipitated his death, on September 23, by poisoning him.
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