Nicanor Parra
Physicist, Author
1914 –
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Who is Nicanor Parra?
Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. He is considered an influential poet in Chile and throughout Latin America. Some rank him among the most important poets of Spanish language literature. Parra describes himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he exclaims "Me retracto de todo lo dicho".
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- Born
- Sep 5, 1914
Chillán - Also known as
- Nicanor Parra Sandoval
- Siblings
- Children
- Nationality
- Chile
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chile
- Brown University
- Lived in
- Chillán
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on July 23, 2013
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