Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra was born on 5 September 1914 in San Fabián de Alico, near Chillán; the singer Violeta Parra was his sister. He studied mathematics and physics at the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile, where he became a professor, and for a time headed the School of Engineering. Scholarships took him to Brown University in 1943, then to England in 1949. National Prize for Literature in 1969, he received the Reina Sofía Prize in 2001 and the Cervantes Prize in 2011, and died in 2018 in La Reina, in the Santiago conurbation, according to Biografías y Vidas.

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