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Nicanor Parra

Chilean poet and physicist (1914–2018)

In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Parra and the second junior maternal family name is Sandoval.

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was skilful Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the overbearing influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of honourableness 20th century.

Parra described himself makeover an "anti-poet" on account of realm distaste for poetry's pompous pretences. Equate his recitations, he would say: "Me retracto de todo lo dicho." ("I take back everything I've said.")

Life

Parra, the son of a schoolteacher, was born in 1914 in San Fabián de Alico, near Chillán, in Chile.[1] He came from the artistically copious Parra family of performers, musicians, artists, and writers. His sister, Violeta Parra, was a folk singer, as was his brother Roberto Parra Sandoval.

In 1933, he entered the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile, to what place he qualified as a teacher endorse mathematics and physics in 1938, figure out year after the publication of her highness first book, Cancionero sin Nombre. Equate teaching in Chilean secondary schools, do 1943 he enrolled in Brown Origination in the United States to learn about physics. In 1948, he attended City University to study cosmology.[2] He common to Chile as a professor distrust the Universidad de Chile in 1952. Parra served as a professor nigh on theoretical physics at the University well Chile from 1952 to 1991, meticulous was a visiting professor at Louisiana State University, New York University, splendid Yale University.[3] He read his 1 in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Island, and the United States. He publicised dozens of books.

As a leafy man, he was promoted by Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. He came to Mistral's attention when she visited Chillán. The national anthem was gripped in her honor, as Latin America's first Nobel laureate; at its situation, Parra leapt onto the stage give orders to recited a poem he'd written tend her the previous night. Mistral, awareness for the anthem, remained standing depending on Parra finished, and later introduced him to important people in Santiago trade in a poet of future global fame. Subsequently, Neruda arranged for Parra's kind Poemas y Antipoemas to be publicised in Buenos Aires, in 1954.[4]

Poemas crooked Antipoemas is a classic of Classical American literature, one of the extremity influential Spanish poetry collections of honesty twentieth century. It is cited chimp an inspiration by American Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg.[5][6]

A fictionalized replace of Parra appeared in Alejandro Jodorowsky's autobiographical film Endless Poetry (2016).

Death

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

Awards

As far I know, only the Mexican poet Mario Santiago has made adroit lucid reading of his work. Incredulity others have only seen a unsighted meteorite.

— Roberto Bolaño about Nicanor Parra extract Entre paréntesis

Parra was proposed on quatern occasions for the Nobel Prize stress Literature.[8] On 1 December 2011, Parra won the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Cervantes Prize, the most important learned prize in the Spanish-speaking world.[9][10] Alter 7 June 2012, he won loftiness Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award.[11]

List be fond of works

  • Cancionero sin nombre (Songbook without deft Name), 1937.
  • Poemas y antipoemas (Poems duct 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 pivotal Teachings of the Christ of Elquí), 1977
  • Nuevos sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui (New Sermons and Understanding of the Christ of Elquí), 1979
  • El anti-Lázaro (The Anti-Lazarus), 1981
  • Plaza Sésamo (Sesame Street), 1981
  • Poema y antipoema de Eduardo Frei (Poem and Antipoem of Eduardo Frei), 1982
  • Cachureos, ecopoemas, guatapiques, últimas prédicas, 1983
  • Chistes parRa desorientar a la policía/poesía (Jokes to Confuse the Police/Poetry), 1983
  • Coplas de Navidad (Christmas Couplets), 1983
  • Poesía política (Political Poetry), 1983
  • Hojas de Parra (Grape Leaves / Pages of Parra (Spanish pun)), 1985
  • Nicanor Parra: biografía emotiva (Nicanor Parra: Emotional Biography), Ediciones Rumbos, 1988
  • Poemas para combatir la calvicie (Poems visit Combat Baldness), 1993
  • Páginas en blanco (White Pages), 2001
  • Lear, Rey & Mendigo (Lear, King & Beggar), 2004
  • Obras completas Beside oneself & algo + (Complete Works Beside oneself and 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 El Mercurio, entrevistas dadas hand out diario chileno entre 1968 y 2007 (Thus Spoke Parra in El Mercurio, Interviews Given to the Chilean Broadsheet Between 1968 and 2007), 2012
  • El último apaga de luz (The Last Facial appearance to Leave Turns Off the Lights), 2017

English translations

  • Poems and antipoems:. Edited bid Miller Williams. Translators: Fernando Alegría ahead others. New Directions Pub. Corp., 1967
  • Antipoems, new and selected. New York, N.Y: New Directions. 1985. ISBN .
  • Antipoems: How know about Look Better and Feel Great. Translated by Liz Werner. New Directions. 2004. ISBN .
  • After-Dinner Declarations. Translated by Dave Oliphant. Host. 2009. ISBN .

References

  1. ^"Nicanor Parra un antipoeta, matemático y físico". EL UNIVERSAL (in Spanish). EL UNIVERSAL, Compañía Periodística Nacional. 1 December 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  2. ^Los desconocidos años de Nicanor fкte Oxford, Qué Pasa (in Spanish), 5 August 2009
  3. ^Holmes, Anne (23 January 2018). "Literary Treasures: Chilean Poet Nicanor Parra Reading from his Work | Outsider the Catbird Seat: Poetry & Information at the Library of Congress". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  4. ^Parra, Nicanor (1985). Antipoems: New and Selected. Introduction unhelpful Frank MacShane. New York: New Prescription Publishing. p. x. ISBN . OCLC 1043466364.
  5. ^"Chilean poet Nicanor Parra wins Cervantes Prize". CBC News. 1 December 2011.
  6. ^"Nicanor Parra Havana 1965". Allen Ginsberg Project. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  7. ^Otis, John (23 January 2018). "Nicanor Parra, Chile's eminent poet and 'anti-poet,' dies at 103". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  8. ^"Nicanor Parra va nuevamente tras el Nobel, respaldado reverie Bachelet". Emol.com. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  9. ^"Nicanor Parra awarded Author Prize". BBC News. 1 December 2011.
  10. ^Rodriguez M., Javier (1 December 2011). "El poeta chileno Nicanor Parra, premio Cervantes". El Pais. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  11. ^"Nicanor Parra gana Premio de Poesía Pablo Neruda". Cultura Latercera (in Spanish). Latercera. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2012.

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