Tuesday, December 06, 2011

News at Eleven: Chilean Nicanor Parra was awarded Spain's

Cervantes Prize on Thursday in recognition of a lifetime's work and his creation of a new and different poetic language that the nonagenarian has labeled "anti-poetry."

Spain's culture minister, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, and Margarita Salas, the first woman to head a Cervantes Prize jury, made the remarks in describing the the new recipient of the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious literary honor.

from Latin American Herald Tribune: Nicanor Parra Wins Spain's Cervantes Prize

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