Nicanor Parra
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Chilean poet Nicanor Parra, 97, has won the
Cervantes Prize, the highest literature award of the Spanish-speaking
world, Spanish Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde announced
Thursday.
The prize, worth 125,000 euros ($168,650), is awarded
annually by the Spanish Culture Ministry.
Nicanor Parra -- brother to the late singer Violeta Parra -- rose to
fame with Poems and Antipoems in the 1960s.
The poet, who is also a mathematician and physicist, is regarded
as a rebel who revolutionized poetry by using crude everyday
language.
The Cervantes Prize is presented by King Juan Carlos in April in
Alcala de Henares, birthplace of Don Quixote author Miguel de
Cervantes.
