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Octavio Paz
Paz in 1988
Paz in 1988
BornOctavio Paz Lozano
(1914-03-31)March 31, 1914
Mexico City, Mexico
DiedApril 19, 1998(1998-04-19) (aged 84)
Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation
  • Writer
  • poet
  • diplomat
Period1931–1965
Literary movement
  • Surrealism
  • existentialism
Notable awards
  • Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1981)
  • Nobel Prize in Literature (1990)
Spouse
Elena Garro
(m. 1937; div. 1959)
Marie-José Tramini
(m. 1965⁠–⁠1998)

Octavio Paz Lozano[a] (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican 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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1990 Nobel Prize in Literature

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La chingada

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"to fuck". The concept of "la chingada" has been famously analysed by Octavio Paz in his book The Labyrinth of Solitude. The following list of expressions...

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Latin American literature

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and poet Octavio Paz is unique among Latin American writers in having won the Nobel Prize, the Neustadt Prize, and the Cervantes Prize. Paz has also been...

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Nobel Prize in Literature

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world, such as Wole Soyinka from Nigeria, Naguib Mahfouz from Egypt, Octavio Paz from Mexico, Nadine Gordimer from South Africa, Derek Walcott from St...

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Piedra de Sol

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Piedra de Sol ("Sunstone") is the poem written by Octavio Paz in 1957 that helped launch his international reputation. In the presentation speech of his...

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Mexican literature

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Notable literary works such as Juan Rulfo's haunting "Pedro Páramo," Octavio Paz's introspective "The Labyrinth of Solitude," and Laura Esquivel's enchanting...

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Octavio

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also used as a surname in the Philippines. Octavio Dotel, Major League Baseball relief pitcher Octavio Paz Lozano, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat...

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Pachuco

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as so-called "proof of Mexican degeneracy." Mexican critics such as Octavio Paz denounced the pachuco as a man who had "lost his whole inheritance: language...

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

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author Eliot Weinberger, with an addendum written by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz. The work analyzes 19 renditions of the Chinese-language nature poem...

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Haiku

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and by Jaime Torres Bodet in his collection Biombo (1925). Much later, Octavio Paz included many haiku in Piedras Sueltas (1955). Elsewhere the Ecuadorian...

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Eliot Weinberger

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and poet Octavio Paz, which began when Weinberger was a teenager, led to many translations of Paz's work, including The Poems of Octavio Paz, In Light...

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Infrarealism

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group also included writers and intellectuals of world renown, such as Octavio Paz or Carlos Monsiváis, who, despite not needing Echeverría's direct support...

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Alejandra Pizarnik

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became friends with Julio Cortázar, Rosa Chacel, Silvina Ocampo and Octavio Paz. Paz even wrote the prologue for her fourth poetry book, The Tree of Diana...

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Ireneo Paz

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journalist, who is the grandfather of the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz. He was born July 3, 1836, in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 1861 upon completion...

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Miguel de Cervantes Prize

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Miguel de Cervantes Prize have also won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavio Paz (Cervantes 1981, Nobel 1990) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Cervantes 1994,...

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Muriel Rukeyser

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fictionalized memoir, The Orgy, plays and screenplays, and translated work by Octavio Paz and Gunnar Ekelöf. She also wrote biographies of Josiah Willard Gibbs...

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Enrique Krauze

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cultural magazine. He started working at Vuelta in 1977, invited by Octavio Paz. He collaborated at Vuelta for more than 20 years, first as an editorial...

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Harris Whitbeck

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Pinochet extradition process, the coup attempt in Ecuador, the death of Octavio Paz, and Bill Clinton's trip to Latin America in May 1997. He also reported...

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Charles Tomlinson

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Graphics of Charles Tomlinson, with an introduction by Nobel prize-winner Octavio Paz, was published in 1975 and was the focus of a December 1975 edition of...

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Carlos Pellicer

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nature and a certain sexual energy that is shared with his contemporary Octavio Paz. Pellicer was born in Villahermosa on 10 January 1897. The young Pellicer...

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