Occupation Poet Name Nicanor Parra | Role Poet | |
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Full Name Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval Children Colombina Parra, Juan de Dios Parra Parents Clarisa Sandoval Navarrete, Nicanor Parra Alarcon Awards Miguel de Cervantes Prize, National Prize for Literature Books Poems & antipoems, Obra gruesa, After‑dinner declarations, Antipoems - new and selected, La antipoesía de Nican Similar People Violeta Parra, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Vicente Huidobro, Colombina Parra | ||
Chile celebrates the 100th birthday of poet nicanor parra
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (born 5 September 1914) is a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. He is considered an influential poet in Chile and throughout Latin America. Some rank him among the most important poets of Spanish language literature. Parra describes himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he exclaims "Me retracto de todo lo dicho" ("I take back everything I said").
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- Chile celebrates the 100th birthday of poet nicanor parra
- Chilean rhapsody a nicanor parra by patricio molina
- Life
- Awards
- List of works
- References
Chilean rhapsody a nicanor parra by patricio molina
Life
Parra, the son of a schoolteacher, was born in 1914 in San Fabián de Alico, Chile, near Chillán in southern Chile. He comes from the artistically prolific Parra family of performers, musicians, artists, and writers. His sister, Violeta Parra, was a folk singer, as was his brother Roberto Parra Sandoval.
In 1933, he entered the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile, and qualified as a teacher of mathematics and physics in 1938, one year after his first book, Cancionero sin Nombre, appeared. After teaching in Chilean secondary schools, in 1943 he enrolled in Brown University in the United States to study physics. In 1948, he attended Oxford University to study cosmology. He returned to Chile as a professor at the Universidad de Chile in 1946. Since 1952, Parra has been professor of theoretical physics in Santiago and has read his poetry in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. He has published dozens of books.
Parra chooses to leave behind the conventions of poetry; his poetic language renounces the refinement of most Latin American literature and adopts a more colloquial tone. His first collection, Poemas y Antipoemas (1954) is a classic of Latin American literature, one of the most influential Spanish poetry collections of the twentieth century. It is cited as an inspiration by American Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg.
Parra turned 100 in September 2014.
Awards
Parra has been proposed on four occasions for the Nobel Prize in Literature. On December 1, 2011, Parra won the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world. On June 7, 2012, he won the Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda.
List of works
English translations