This is old news by now … that the great Nicanor Parra passed away on January 23rd. There have been obits and memoirs by journalists and translators, but the best reflection you’re likely to find is by the Chilean native, writer and translator, Soledad Marambio, which you can read here.
And feel free to visit an earlier post of my own, where you can read a number of Parra’s poems.
Bravo for this and the 2009 post with the Nicanor Parra poems. He was a major influence for me at a particular point in the sixties. You’re right about the Nobel: this renowned physicist should have had it.