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Nicanor Parra
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Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist (1914-2018)
Key facts
- Born
- Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval , ( 1914-09-05 ) 5 September 1914, San Fabián de Alico , Chile
- Died
- 23 January 2018 (2018-01-23) (aged 103), La Reina , Chile
- Occupation
- Poet
- Awards
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize (2011)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Parra
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Chile
- Place of birth
- San Fabián
- Place of death
- La Reina
- Child
- Colombina Parra
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Employer
- University of Chile
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Field of work
- poetry
- Genre
- poetry
- Image
- Nicanor Parra (cropped).jpg
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- centenarian
- Commons category
- Nicanor Parra
- date of birth
- 1914-09-05
- date of death
- 2018-01-23
- Commons Creator page
- Nicanor Parra
- second family name in Spanish name
- Sandoval
- start of work period
- 1935-00-00
- name in native language
- Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval
- has works in the collection
- Memoria Chilena
- writing language
- Spanish
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century.
Parra described himself as an "anti-poet" on account of his distaste for poetry's pompous pretences. After his recitations, he would say: "Me retracto de todo lo dicho." ("I take back everything I've said.")
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