Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra
Author • TranslatorSeptember 5, 1914 – January 23, 2018 · From Chile- Books
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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 and the University of Oxford, he taught theoretical physics at the University of Chile from 1952 until his retirement in 1991.
He became known as the founder of "antipoetry," a colloquial, irreverent style that rejected the ornate conventions of traditional Spanish-language poetry, beginning with his 1954 collection Poems and Antipoems. He won Spain's Premio Cervantes in 2011 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times.
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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.