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Octavio Paz
AuthorBooks · Second hand1914-1998
Mexican poet and essayist, Nobel laureate in Literature 1990, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and the long poem Sunstone.
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About Octavio Paz
Birth
1914
Death
1998
First book
1933
Years writing
93
Mexican poet and essayist, Nobel laureate in Literature 1990, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and the long poem Sunstone.
He was Mexico's ambassador to India from 1962 to 1968 and resigned in protest at the Tlatelolco massacre.
He founded the influential journals Plural and Vuelta, central to twentieth-century Hispanic American thought.
He published The Labyrinth of Solitude in 1950, a classic essay on Mexican identity.
He won the Cervantes Prize (1981) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1990).
His poem Sunstone has 584 lines, the same number of days as Venus's synodic cycle in the Aztec calendar.
