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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicanor Parra has received more than 255,431 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Nicanor Parra is the 1,917th most popular writer (down from 1,814th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Chile (down from 29th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Chilean Writer.

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  • 62.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nicanor Parra ranks 1,917 out of 7,302Before him are Moschus, Eiji Tsuburaya, Surdas, Gitta Sereny, Watchman Nee, and Juhani Aho. After him are Miklós Nyiszli, Thomas Wyatt, Michel de Ghelderode, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Edward Young, and Josef Lada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Nicanor Parra ranks 94Before him are Edmund Conen, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, Carlos Castillo Armas, Annie Fischer, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and Marcel Bich. After him are J. Lee Thompson, Eugene Nida, Bill Finger, Birabongse Bhanudej, Jens Otto Krag, and Edward Schillebeeckx. Among people deceased in 2018, Nicanor Parra ranks 104Before him are Jozef Adamec, Margot Kidder, Joseph Kobzon, Alan Baker, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Paul Andreu. After him are Bruno Sammartino, Dennis Nilsen, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Raymond Chow, Josep Lluís Núñez, and Irena Szewińska.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Nicanor Parra ranks 34 out of 321Before him are Alexis Sánchez (1988), Orlando Letelier (1932), Francisco Varela (1946), Humberto Maturana (1928), Arturo Vidal (1987), and Pedro Pascal (1975). After him are Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Arturo Alessandri (1868), Lucía Hiriart (1923), and René Schneider (1913).

Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Nicanor Parra ranks 6Before him are Pablo Neruda (1904), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), and Roberto Bolaño (1953). After him are Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Antonio Skármeta (1940), José Donoso (1924), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Cristina Calderón (1928), and Alberto Hurtado (1901).