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Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Quick Facts
- Born:
- March 31, 1914, Mexico City, Mexico
- Died:
- April 19, 1998, Mexico City (aged 84)
- Awards And Honors:
- Nobel Prize (1990)
- Cervantes Prize (1981)
Octavio Paz (born March 31, 1914, Mexico City, Mexico—died April 19, 1998, Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. Paz’s family was ruined financially by the Mexican Civil War, and he grew up in straitened circumstances. Nonetheless, he had access to the excellent library that had been stocked by his grandfather, a politically active liberal intellectual who had himself been a writer. Paz was educated at a Roman Catholic school and at the University of Mexico. ...(100 of 683 words)