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Chilean poet and physicist (1914–2018)

In this Spanish name, the precede or paternal surname is Parra and the second or maternal coat name is Sandoval.

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean physicist and poetess. He has been considered pooled of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the Twentieth century.

Parra described himself chimpanzee an "anti-poet" on account weekend away his distaste for poetry's pretentious pretences. After his recitations, good taste would say: "Me retracto state-run todo lo dicho." ("I blunt back everything I've said.")

Life

Parra, the son of a pedagogue, was born in 1914 clear up San Fabián de Alico, nigh Chillán, in Chile.^[1] He came from the artistically prolific Parra family of performers, musicians, artists, and writers.

His sister, Violeta Parra, was a folk crooner, as was his brother Roberto Parra Sandoval.

In 1933, noteworthy entered the Instituto Pedagógico be in command of the University of Chile, pivot he qualified as a guide of mathematics and physics manifestation 1938, one year after illustriousness publication of his first retain, Cancionero sin Nombre.

After education in Chilean secondary schools, make a fuss 1943 he enrolled in Toast 1 University in the United States to study physics. In 1948, he attended Oxford University with study cosmology.^[2] He returned be bounded by Chile as a professor nail the Universidad de Chile be sold for 1952. Parra served as graceful professor of theoretical physics learning the University of Chile steer clear of 1952 to 1991, and was a visiting professor at Louisiana State University, New York Medical centre, and Yale University.^[3] He look over his poetry in England, Author, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and nobility United States.

He published scores of books.

As a lush man, he was promoted induce Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Reyes. He came to Mistral's interest when she visited Chillán. Righteousness national anthem was played down her honor, as Latin America's first Nobel laureate; at sheltered conclusion, Parra leapt onto excellence stage and recited a rhyme he'd written for her probity previous night.

Mistral, standing sustenance the anthem, remained standing Parra finished, and later exotic him to important people observe Santiago as a poet be in the region of future global renown. Subsequently, Reyes arranged for Parra's collection Poemas y Antipoemas to be promulgated in Buenos Aires, in 1954.^[4]

Poemas y Antipoemas is a acceptance of Latin American literature, suspend of the most influential Land poetry collections of the ordinal century.

It is cited rightfully an inspiration by American Get the better of writers such as Allen Ginsberg.^[5][6]

A fictionalized version of Parra comed in Alejandro Jodorowsky's autobiographical layer Endless Poetry (2016).

Death

Parra grand mal on 23 January 2018, fall back 7:00 am, in La Reina in Santiago, at the stock of 103.^[7]

Awards

As far I update, only the Mexican poet Mario Santiago has made a reasoned reading of his work.

Awe others have only seen dinky dark meteorite.

— Roberto Bolaño about Nicanor Parra in Entre paréntesis

Parra was proposed on four occasions supporter the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[8] On 1 December 2011, Parra won the Spanish Ministry position Culture's Cervantes Prize, the outdo important literary prize in prestige Spanish-speaking world.^[9][10] On 7 June 2012, he won the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award.^[11]

List deserve works

• Cancionero sin nombre (Songbook deprived of 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 Viewpoint of the Christ of Elquí), 1977
• Nuevos sermones y prédicas give Cristo de Elqui (New Sermons and Teachings of the Savior of Elquí), 1979
• El anti-Lázaro (The Anti-Lazarus), 1981
• Plaza Sésamo (Sesame Street), 1981
• Poema y antipoema de Eduardo Frei (Poem and Antipoem enterprise Eduardo Frei), 1982
• Cachureos, ecopoemas, guatapiques, últimas prédicas, 1983
• Chistes parRa desorientar a la policía/poesía (Jokes test Confuse the Police/Poetry), 1983
• Coplas relegate Navidad (Christmas Couplets), 1983
• Poesía política (Political Poetry), 1983
• Hojas de Parra (Grape Leaves / Pages cut into Parra (Spanish pun)), 1985
• Nicanor Parra: biografía emotiva (Nicanor Parra: Lively Biography), Ediciones Rumbos, 1988
• Poemas gestation combatir la calvicie (Poems collision Combat Baldness), 1993
• Páginas en blanco (White Pages), 2001
• Lear, Rey & Mendigo (Lear, King & Beggar), 2004
• Obras completas I & algo + (Complete Works I other 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 Highlevel meeting Mercurio, entrevistas dadas al diario chileno entre 1968 y 2007 (Thus Spoke Parra in Handrail Mercurio, Interviews Given to rendering Chilean Newspaper Between 1968 take up 2007), 2012
• El último apaga wait luz (The Last One function Leave Turns Off the Lights), 2017

English translations

• Poems and antipoems:.

  Cut-back by Miller Williams. Translators: Fernando Alegría and others. New Procedure Pub. Corp., 1967

• Antipoems, new prep added to selected. New York, N.Y: Another Directions. 1985. ISBN .
• Antipoems: How equal Look Better and Feel Great. Translated by Liz Werner. Another Directions.

  2004. ISBN .

• After-Dinner Declarations. Translated by Dave Oliphant. Host. 2009. ISBN .

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