Octavio Paz
31 March 1914 – 19 April 1998
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet, essayist and diplomat whose work ranged from lyric poetry to extended essays on Mexican identity, notably The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). He served in the Mexican foreign service for more than twenty years, including as ambassador to India, and founded the literary magazines Plural and Vuelta. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.
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Life events
He grew up in Mixcoac in the household of his grandfather, the writer Ireneo Paz.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe left without taking a degree, having already begun publishing poetry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe attended the Valencia congress during the Spanish Civil War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTheir daughter Helena was born in 1939; the marriage ended in divorce in 1959.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis first posting took him to Paris, where he encountered the surrealists.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe book-length essay on Mexican character became his best-known prose work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe resigned the post in October 1968 in protest at the killing of student demonstrators at Tlatelolco.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe edited the literary and political review until the end of his life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was the first Mexican writer to receive the prize.
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