Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra
September 5, 1914 – January 23, 2018 · From Chile1
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Nicanor Parra (1914–2018) was a Chilean poet, mathematician and physicist regarded as one of the most influential Spanish-language poets of the 20th century. Trained as a mathematics and physics teacher at the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile, with further study at Brown University an…
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Has Nicanor Parra won any major literary prizes?
Yes — in 2011, Nicanor Parra was awarded the Premio Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Prize), the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, recognizing his lifetime body of work as the founder of "antipoetry." He was the third Chilean writer to receive the prize.