Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was a Mexican poet and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides writing and teaching, Paz also served as a Mexican diplomat in the early 1940s with assignments in New York, Paris, India, Tokyo and Geneva. Influenced by his grandfather’s extensive library, Paz became enamored with literature and began writing verse as a teen. He published his first poem at the age of 17 and his first volume of verse when he was 19. Many of his poems address and engage the tensions present in Mexico’s national identity as well as those present in human relationships, especially between the sexes.
Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was a Mexican poet and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides writing and teaching, Paz also served as a Mexican diplomat in the early 1940s with assignments in New York, Paris, India, Tokyo and Geneva. Influenced by his grandfather’s extensive library, Paz became enamored with literature and began writing verse as a teen. He published his first poem at the age of 17 and his first volume of verse when he was 19. Many of his poems address and engage the tensions present in Mexico’s national identity as well as those present in human relationships, especially between the sexes.
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