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Occupation
  
Poet

Name
  
Nicanor Parra


Role
  
Poet

Siblings
  
Nicanor Parra Parra Sandoval Nicanor


Full Name
  
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval

Born
  
5 September 1914 (age 109) (
1914-09-05
)
San Fabian de Alico, Chile

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

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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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Life

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

  • Cancionero sin nombre (Songbook without a Name), 1937.
  • Poemas y antipoemas (Poems and Antipoems), 1954; Nascimento, 1956; Cátedra, 2005, ISBN 978-84-376-0777-1
  • La Cueca larga (The Long Cueca), 1958
  • Versos de salón (Parlor Verses), 1962
  • Manifiesto (Manifesto), 1963
  • Canciones rusas (Russian Songs), 1967
  • Obra gruesa (Thick Works), 1969
  • Los profesores (The Teachers), 1971
  • Artefactos (Artifacts), 1972
  • Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui (Sermons and Teachings of the Christ of Elquí), 1977
  • Nuevos sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui (New Sermons and Teachings of the Christ of Elquí), 1979
  • El anti-Lázaro (The Anti-Lazarus), 1981
  • Plaza Sésamo (Sesame Street), 1981
  • Poema y antipoema de Eduardo Frei (Poem and Antipoem of Eduardo Frei), 1982
  • Cachureos, ecopoemas, guatapiques, últimas prédicas, 1983
  • Chistes parRa desorientar a la policía (Jokes to Confuse the Police), 1983
  • Coplas de Navidad (Christmas Couplets), 1983
  • Poesía política (Political Poetry), 1983
  • Hojas de Parra (Grape Leaves / Pages of Parra (Spanish pun)), 1985
  • Nicanor Parra: biografía emotiva (Nicanor Parra: Emotional Biography), Ediciones Rumbos, 1988
  • Poemas para combatir la calvicie (Poems to Combat Baldness), 1993
  • Páginas en blanco (White Pages), 2001
  • Lear, Rey & Mendigo (Lear, King & Beggar), 2004
  • Obras completas I & algo + (Complete Works I and Something More), 2006
  • Discursos de Sobremesa (After Dinner Declarations), 2006
  • Obras Completas II & algo + (Complete Works II and Something More), 2011
  • Así habló Parra en El Mercurio, entrevistas dadas al diario chileno entre 1968 y 2007 (Thus Spoke Parra in El Mercurio, Interviews Given to the Chilean Newspaper Between 1968 and 2007), 2012
  • El último apagón de luz (The last light cut), 2017
  • English translations

  • Poems and antipoems: Edited by Miller Williams. Translators: Fernando Alegría and others. New Directions Pub. Corp., 1967
  • Nicanor Parra: Poems and Antipoems, ed. David Unger, New Directions, 1985, ISBN 978-0-8112-0959-5
  • Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great. Translator: Liz Werner. New Directions. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8112-1597-8. 
  • After-Dinner Declarations. Translator: Dave Oliphant. Host. 2009. ISBN 978-0-924047-63-3. 
  • References

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