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Octavio Paz was born near Mexico City.His family was a prominent liberal political family in Mexico, with Spanish and indigenous Mexican roots. [1] His grandfather, Ireneo Paz, the family's patriarch, fought in the War of the Reform against conservatives, and then became a staunch supporter of liberal war hero Porfirio Díaz up until just before the 1910 outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.
The 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz (1914–1998) "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." [1] He is the only recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature from Mexico. [2] [3]
Octavio G. Barreda (30 November 1897 – 2 January 1964) was a Mexican poet, critic, essayist, translator, and a literary promoter. Poet of secret desolation and author of some precious Sonetos a la Virgen (Sonnets to the Virgin) (1937) with hermetic background, sharp prose writer and critic. [ 1 ]
Towards the end of the 20th century Mexican literature had become diversified in themes, styles and genres. In 1990 Octavio Paz became the first Mexican—and up until this point the only one—to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. [2] In the years between 1900 and 1914 it continued to dominate modernism in poetry and prose realism and naturalism.
Piedra de Sol ("Sunstone") is the poem written by Octavio Paz in 1957 that helped launch his international reputation. [1] In the presentation speech of his Nobel Prize in 1990, Sunstone was later praised as "one of the high points of Paz's poetry…This suggestive work with its many layers of meaning seems to incorporate, interpret and ...
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Octavio Paz, Nobel laureate. See also List of Mexican poets. Elvia Ardalani (born 1963) José Carlos Becerra (1936–1970) Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (1923–2013) Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974) Elsa Cross (born 1946) Jorge Cuesta (1903–1942) Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853–1928) Enrique González Martínez (1871–1952) José Gorostiza (1901–1973)
Octavio Paz (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Mexican poets" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... Félix Suárez (poet) T.