14 Facts About Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean physicist and poet.

Nicanor Parra has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century.

Nicanor Parra, the son of a schoolteacher, was born in 1914 in San Fabian de Alico, near Chillan, in Chile.

Nicanor Parra came from the artistically prolific Parra family of performers, musicians, artists, and writers.

Nicanor Parra's sister, Violeta Parra, was a folk singer, as was his brother Roberto Parra Sandoval.

Nicanor Parra returned to Chile as a professor at the Universidad de Chile in 1952.

Nicanor 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.

Nicanor Parra read his poetry in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States.

Nicanor Parra came to Mistral's attention when she visited Chillan.

The national anthem was played in her honor, as Latin America's first Nobel laureate; at its conclusion, Nicanor Parra leapt onto the stage and recited a poem he'd written for her the previous night.

Mistral, standing for the anthem, remained standing until Nicanor Parra finished, and later introduced him to important people in Santiago as a poet of future global renown.

Nicanor Parra died on 23 January 2018, at 7:00 am, in La Reina in Santiago, at the age of 103.

Nicanor Parra was proposed on four occasions for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

On 1 December 2011, Nicanor Parra won the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Cervantes Prize, the most important literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world.