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Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Born 31 March 1914 · Died 19 April 1998 · Q46739
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“throughout history and under the most diverse circumstances, poets have participated in politics. I do not refer to poetry as a form of art to be used by the State. No. I refer to the free participation of the poets in the matters of his/her city.”
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“Soon I discovered the defense of poetry, disregarded in our century, became inseparable from the defense of liberty.”
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“is full of somber details and harsh judgments”
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities (2003).
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Died 1998-04-19.
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Was named by Paz as director of the Octavio Paz Foundation, published a book, Poeta con paisaje (2004), with several biographical essays about the poet
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1997).
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At the Gate Theatre in London, the play was translated and directed by Sebastian Doggart and starred Sarah Alexander as Beatrice
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1991).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1990).
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During the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin wall, Paz and his Vuelta colleagues invited several of the world's writers and intellectuals to Mexico City to discuss the collapse of Communism; writers included Czesław Mi
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Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1991
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And in that year, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Paz's magazine Vuelta published criticism of Fuentes by Enrique Krauze, resulting in the estrangement
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Awarded Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (1987).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1986).
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Awarded Alfonso Reyes International Prize (1985).
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1984).
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Awarded Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1982).
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Awarded Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1981).
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Was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard, and in 1982, he won the Neustadt Prize
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Awarded Jerusalem Prize (1977).
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Paz founded Vuelta, another cultural magazine
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Was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University; his book Los hijos del limo (Children of the Mire) was the result of his lectures
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Surrealist author André Pieyre de Mandiargues translated the play into French as La fille de Rappaccini (Editions Mercure de France)
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Paz resigned from the diplomatic service in protest against the Mexican government's massacre of student demonstrators in Tlatelolco; after seeking refuge in Paris, he again returned to Mexico in 1969, where he founded h
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Married Marie-José Tramini, a French woman who would be his wife for the rest of his life
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Awarded Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1964).
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Career landmark: ambassador of Mexico to India (1962–1968).
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As The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico)
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And in 1962, he was named Mexico's ambassador to India
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Was praised as a "magnificent" example of surrealist poetry in the presentation speech of his Nobel Prize
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Where he wrote his great poem "Piedra de sol" ("Sunstone") in 1957, and published Libertad bajo palabra (Liberty under Oath), a compilation of his poetry up to that time
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Travelled to India for the first time, and that same year went to Tōkyō as chargé d'affaires
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Awarded National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1945).
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Was sent to Paris, where he wrote El Laberinto de la Soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude); The New York Times later described it as "an analysis of modern Mexico and the Mexican personality in which he described his fe
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1943).
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Paz received a Guggenheim Fellowship and used it to study at the University of California at Berkeley in the United States
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Paz co-funded a literary journal, Taller ("Workshop") and wrote for that magazine until 1941
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Married Elena Garro, considered to be one of Mexico's finest writers; they had met in 1935
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Paz abandoned his law studies, and left Mexico City for Yucatán to work at a school in Mérida
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At the age of 18, he founded his first literary review, Barandal with some friends
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At the age of sixteen, he wrote what would be his first published article, "Ethics of the Artist", in which he posed the question of the duty of an artist among what would be deemed "art of thesis," or pure art, which di
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Paz published his first poems, including "Cabellera"
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Born 1914-03-31.
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