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Line 1: − [[Image:Paz.jpg|right]] − '''Octavio Paz Lozano''' (Mexico City 1914 - Mexico City 1998) was a [[Mexican]] poet, prolific author, journalist and diplomat. Paz received the [[Nobel Prize]] for [[Literature]] in 1990. He had many other awards like: Cervantes Prize, Jerusalem Prize, Menendez y Pelayo Prize, Doctor Honoris Causa (Harvard) and Doctor Honoris Causa (UNAM). Early leftist by the time of the Nobel prize he had become a [[conservative]]. − The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), is his most renown work in prose and among his poems "Piedra de Sol" (Sun Stone, 1957). − − Piedra de Sol (fragment) − − ''un sauce de cristal, un chopo de agua,'' − − ''un alto surtidor que el viento arquea,'' − − ''un árbol bien plantado mas danzante,'' − − ''un caminar de río que se curva,'' − − ''avanza, retrocede, da un rodeo'' − − ''y llega siempre:'' − − .......................................... − − − ::: ''Paz's poetry has been collected in Poemas 1935-1975 (1981) and Collected Poems, 1957-1987 (1987). A remarkable prose stylist, Paz has written a prolific body of essays, including several book-length studies, in poetics, literary and art criticism, as well as on Mexican history, politics and culture.'' [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/paz-bio.html Octavio Paz The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990] The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm. − − == External links == − − *[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/opaz.htm Biography and selected works] − − {{DEFAULTSORT:Paz, Octavio}} − − [[Category:Mexico]] − [[Category:Poetry]] − [[Category:Authors]] − [[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]]
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