Literature · Politics · Philosophy · 1914–1998
Born: 31 March 1914 · Died: 19 April 1998 · Age at death: 84
Octavio Paz died aged 84. He was born on 31 March 1914 and died on 19 April 1998.
Mexican poet and essayist of The Labyrinth of Solitude and Sunstone who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know?He resigned from his position as ambassador to India to protest the Mexican government's treatment of student demonstrators.
Octavio Paz was the leading Mexican writer of the 20th century. He was a poet first, but also a brilliant essayist and diplomat. The Labyrinth of Solitude explores Mexican history, masks and identity. His long poem Sun Stone moves in a great circle, like the Aztec calendar. As ambassador to India he absorbed Eastern thought. He resigned in 1968 after the Mexican government killed protesting students. He founded influential literary magazines. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Mexican poet, 1914–1998
Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City on 31 March 1914.
The Labyrinth of Solitude appeared in 1950.
He was ambassador to India.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.
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Did you know?He founded the magazine Vuelta.
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