Nicanor Parra

Friday, December 02, 2011


POET FROM CHILE , NICANOR PARRA
WINS SPAINS CERVANTES PRIZE !!!!!!

   The Miguel de Cervantes Award for Literature is Spains highest honor , PERIOD . The only way to get this award is to have an impressive breadth of work over a long period of time and contribute to the enrichment of both Spanish Language and Literature . Many influential thinkers , people of culture and academia as well as Journalists from Spain are judges for this most important prize . It is no wonder that Nicanor Parra has won this years prize , this man is Chile's most important author and has published many many poems in his "anti poetry "style . El Señor Parra has previously won Chile's top prize , The National Literature Award , twice , in 1969 and 1981 and has generally been considered , if not the most important writer in the world of the Spanish Language then DEFINITELY one of them . The prize was announced in Madrid by Spanish Culture Minister , Angeles Gonzalez Sinde and the 97 year old Parra will also win about 107,000 dollars that come with the top Spanish Literature prize .  Just in case you did not know , the award is named after the guy who wrote the famous " Don Quixote " stories . The prize will be given in a ceremony on April 23rd ...............
Congratulations to El Señor Nicanor Parra !!!!!!!!

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