Raúl González Tuñón

Raúl González Tuñón (29 March 1905 – 14 August 1974) was an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

poet and writer from

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. He also worked as a journalist, notably for the journal ''Crítica'', and was known for his social activism and his socialist beliefs. He was a great friend of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

. His first book of poetry, ''El violín del diablo'', was published by the well-known Buenos Aires publishing house Editorial Gleizer in 1926, and Gleizer then published many of his later works. 1905 births 1974 deaths 20th-century Argentine poets 20th-century Argentine male writers Argentine male poets {{Argentina-poet-stub