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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 poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential Chilean poets of the Spanish language in the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicanor Parra has received more than 241,048 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Nicanor Parra is the 1,818th most popular writer (up from 1,973rd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Chile and the 7th most popular Chilean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nicanor Parra ranks 1,818 out of 5,755. Before him are Ybyrai Altynsarin, Christopher Isherwood, Antonio Skármeta, José de Acosta, Notker the Stammerer, and Hjalmar Söderberg. After him are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Etel Adnan, Lucinda Riley, Théodore de Banville, Joseph Joubert, and Prosper of Aquitaine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Nicanor Parra ranks 93. Before him are Carlos Castillo Armas, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Max Manus, Bernard Malamud, Woody Strode, and Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy. After him are Ilmari Juutilainen, Erich Topp, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Tito Okello, George Reeves, and Ferenc Fricsay. Among people deceased in 2018, Nicanor Parra ranks 101. Before him are Tsukasa Hosaka, Joseph Kobzon, Quini, Dennis Nilsen, Henri Michel, and Belisario Betancur. After him are Uri Avnery, Bruno Sammartino, Richard Pipes, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kim Jong-pil, and Alan Baker.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Nicanor Parra ranks 29 out of 265. Before him are Lucía Hiriart (1923), Humberto Maturana (1928), Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901), Raúl Ruiz (1941), Luis Corvalán (1916), and Antonio Skármeta (1940). After him are Roberto Matta (1911), Laura Vicuña (1891), Francisco Varela (1946), Arturo Vidal (1987), Orlando Letelier (1932), and Jorge Alessandri (1896).

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Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Nicanor Parra ranks 7. Before him are Pablo Neruda (1904), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Roberto Bolaño (1953), and Antonio Skármeta (1940). After him are Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Vicente Huidobro (1893), José Donoso (1924), Cristina Calderón (1928), Alberto Hurtado (1901), and Francisco Coloane (1910).

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