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Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra

(Chile, 1914 - 2018)
Biography

Nicanor Parra Sandoval (born 5 September 1914) 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.[1] 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" ("I take back everything I said") . . .

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In 1985 Nicanor Parra was a guest at the Poetry International festival in Rotterdam. You can listen to recordings of his poetry made on this occasion.

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