Nicanor Parra

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Nicanor Parra was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist best known for pioneering "antipoetry," a radically colloquial and ironic style that transformed 20th-century Latin American literature.

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Nicanor Parra canonical 2
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval 1

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instanceOf human
mathematician
physicist
poet
university teacher
awardReceived Cervantes Prize
Juan Rulfo Award
National Prize for Literature (Chile)
Reina Sofía Award for Ibero-American Poetry
birthCountry Chile
birthDate 1914-09-05
birthPlace San Fabián de Alico
linked to: San Fabián
countryOfCitizenship Chile
deathCountry Chile
deathDate 2018-01-23
deathPlace La Reina
describedBy pioneer of antipoetry
educatedAt Brown University
University of Chile
University of Oxford
employer University of Chile
familyName Parra
fieldOfWork literary translation
mathematics
physics
poetry
fullName Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval
linked to: Nicanor Parra
genre antipoetry
poetry
givenName Nicanor
influenced Chilean literature
Latin American poetry
languageOfWorkOrName Spanish
movement Latin American literature
antipoetry
nativeLanguage Spanish
notableFor antipoetry
notableWork Artefactos
La camisa de fuerza
Obra gruesa
Poemas y antipoemas
Versos de salón
occupation mathematician
physicist
poet
translator
positionHeld professor of theoretical physics
residence Santiago, Chile
linked to: Santiago (Chile)
sibling Hilda Parra
Roberto Parra
Violeta Parra
style black humor
colloquial language
irony

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Nicanor Parra fullName Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval
linked to: Nicanor Parra