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Nicanor Parra

1914 - 2018

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Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century. Parra described himself as an "anti-poet" on account of his distaste for poetry's pompous pretences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicanor Parra is the 1,944th most popular writer (down from 1,916th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Chile (up from 34th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Chilean Writer.

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Among writers, Nicanor Parra ranks 1,944 out of 7,302. Before him are Eustache Deschamps, Jean Paulhan, Ludwig Uhland, Sanai, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Emmanuel Carrère. After him are Laura Mancinelli, Mikhail Artsybashev, Fredrika Bremer, Ippolita Maria Sforza, László Krasznahorkai, and Hendrik Conscience.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Nicanor Parra ranks 106. Before him are Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Thomas Watson Jr., Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, and Martin Ritt. After him are Sonny Boy Williamson I, Álvaro del Portillo, Annie Fischer, George Reeves, Kirill Kondrashin, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. Among people deceased in 2018, Nicanor Parra ranks 118. Before him are Paul Virilio, Robert Faurisson, Jozef Adamec, Joseph Kobzon, Oliver Dragojević, and Luis García Meza. After him are Lawrence Roberts, Josep Lluís Núñez, Richard Pipes, Eduard Uspensky, Tom Wolfe, and Maria Bueno.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Nicanor Parra ranks 30 out of 321. Before him are Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Leonel Sánchez (1936), Francisco Varela (1946), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Jorge Alessandri (1896), and Raúl Ruiz (1941). After him are Arturo Alessandri (1868), Roberto Matta (1911), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), José Manuel Balmaceda (1840), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (1933), and Humberto Maturana (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Nicanor Parra ranks 8. Before him are Gabriela Mistral (1889), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Roberto Bolaño (1953), and Antonio Skármeta (1940). After him are José Donoso (1924), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Cristina Calderón (1928), Alberto Hurtado (1901), Francisco Coloane (1910), and Jorge Edwards (1931).

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