Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Later life

In 1962, Paz was appointed as Mexico's ambassador to India, and while there, he completed several works, including The Grammarian Monkey and East Slope. His time in government service ended, however, in 1968, when he resigned in protest of the Mexican government's killing of hundreds of students in the Tlatelolco massacre. He returned to Mexico in 1969, and worked as a visiting professor of Spanish American Literature at several universities in the United States. From 1971 to 1976 he edited and published Plural, a magazine he founded that was dedicated to arts and politics. In 1976 he founded Vuelta, a publication with a focus similar to that of Plural, and continued editing that magazine until his death. In 1980 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, and in 1982 he won the Neustadt Prize. A collection of his poems (written between 1957 and 1987) was published in 1988. In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity" http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1990/. He died in 1998.

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1962 - India - 1968 - Tlatelolco massacre - 1969 - 1971 - 1976 - 1980 - Harvard University - 1982 - Neustadt Prize - 1957 - 1987 - 1988

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