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Apr 21, 1998 · Octavio Paz, Mexico's premier poet and essayist and one of the towering men of letters in the second half of this century, died on Sunday at a temporary residence in Mexico City. He was 84....
Oct 12, 1990 · Oct. 12, 1990. STOCKHOLM, Oct. 11. Octavio Paz, a writer of vivid surrealistic verse and penetrating social essays, won the Nobel Prize in Literature today, becoming the first Mexican writer to...
Octavio Paz, (born March 31, 1914, Mexico City, Mex.—died April 19, 1998, Mexico City), Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat. Educated at the University of Mexico, Paz published his first book of poetry, Savage Moon, in 1933. He later founded and edited several important literary reviews.
