Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet and physicist.
Parra described himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he would exclaim "Me retracto de todo lo dicho" ("I take back everything I said"). ==Life== Parra, the son of a schoolteacher, was born in 1914 in San Fabián de Alico, near Chillán, in Chile.
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, where he qualified as a teacher of mathematics and physics in 1938, one year after the publication of his first book, Cancionero sin Nombre.
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, where he qualified as a teacher of mathematics and physics in 1938, one year after the publication of his first book, Cancionero sin Nombre.
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 1952.
Parra served as a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Chile from 1952 to 1991, and was a visiting professor at Louisiana State University, New York University, and Yale University.
Corp., 1967 ==References== ==External links== Nicanor Parra Official website Nicanor Parra website at the Universidad de Chile La Antipoesía de Parra y el lenguaje del artefacto UNESCO El Proyecto de la Antipoesía de Nicanor Parra Nicanor Parra en Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes Nicanor Parra recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on Apr.
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Parra served as a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Chile from 1952 to 1991, and was a visiting professor at Louisiana State University, New York University, and Yale University.
On 1 December 2011, Parra won the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world.
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet and physicist.
It is cited as an inspiration by American Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg. A fictionalized version of Parra appeared in Alejandro Jodorowsky's autobiographical film Endless Poetry (2016). == Death == Parra died on 23 January 2018, at 7:00 am, in La Reina in Santiago de Chile, at the age of 103. ==Awards== Parra was proposed on four occasions for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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