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-'''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:''
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-::: ''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]
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-[[Category:Mexico]]
-[[Category:Poetry]]
-[[Category:Authors]]
-[[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]]

Difference between revisions of "Octavio Paz"

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