Octavio Paz

Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914-1998) · Mexico · Writers · Died at 84

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He mapped the labyrinth where solitude and identity meet - the Mexican poet who turned loneliness into a philosophy and won the Nobel for it.

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A life in dates

2003Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and HumanitiesAward1998Died19 April 19981997Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the CatholicAward1995“The Hindu genius is a love for abstraction and, at the same time, a passion for the concrete image. At times It is rich, at others prolix.”In their wordsIn Light of India .Paz, Octavio In Light of India Harcourt Bruce and Company San Diego 1995 p. 185.Read the whole statement

1991Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAward1990“Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry.”In their words8 December 1990Nobel Lecture (8 December 1990)Read the whole statement

Nobel Prize in LiteratureAward1987Menéndez Pelayo International PrizeAward1986Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the WiseAward1985Alfonso Reyes International PrizeAward1984Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' AssociationAward1982Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAward1981Miguel de Cervantes PrizeAward1977Jerusalem PrizeAward1967“There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.”In their words"Signs in Rotation" (1967) in The Bow and the Lyre : The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History (1973) as translated by Ruth L.C.Read the whole statement

1964Xavier Villaurrutia AwardAward1957“Between going and staying the day wavers”In their words* "Touch"Read the whole statement

1949“And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?”In their words"Visión del escribiente" as translated by Eliot Weinberger in Eagle Or Sun? (1976)Read the whole statement

“The world stretches out before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.”In their words"Visión del escribiente" as translated by Eliot Weinberger in Eagle Or Sun? (1976)Read the whole statement

1945National Prize for Arts and SciencesAward1943Guggenheim FellowshipAward1914Born31 March 1914

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Elena Garro y Helena Paz Garro durante la filmación del documental "La cuarta casa, un retrato de Elena Garro" de José Antonio Cordero "Pepe Lamb", en Cuernavaca Morelos

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Octavio Paz

10 statements, newest first

The Hindu genius is a love for abstraction and, at the same time, a passion for the concrete image. At times It is rich, at others prolix.
1995, In Light of India .Paz, Octavio In Light of India Harcourt Bruce and Company San Diego 1995 p. 185., Own words
To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
1994, Itinerary (1994), Own words
Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry.
Dec 8, 1990, Nobel Lecture (8 December 1990), Own words

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Awards

Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities2003

Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic1997

Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic1991

Nobel Prize in Literature1990

Menéndez Pelayo International Prize1987

Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise1986

Alfonso Reyes International Prize1985

Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association1984

Neustadt International Prize for Literature1982

Miguel de Cervantes Prize1981

Jerusalem Prize1977

Xavier Villaurrutia Award1964

National Prize for Arts and Sciences1945

Guggenheim Fellowship1943

Mariano de Cavia' Price

Family

Father Octavio Paz Solórzano

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Child Helena Paz Garro

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About this person

Octavio Paz Lozano was born March 31, 1914, and spent a life moving between words and nations as both poet and diplomat. His writing threaded philosophy through verse, pulling at the knot of what it means to be alone and Mexican and human all at once. The honors came in waves: the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Miguel de Cervantes in 1981, the Neustadt in 1982, then the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. He died April 19, 1998, having turned the interior life into a map others could read.

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Mexico

In common with Octavio

Assumpta SernaAlso in I, the Worst of All (1990)

Nicolás EchevarríaAlso in Sor Juana Inez de la cruz (1988)

Cecilia RothAlso in I, the Worst of All (1990)

Dominique SandaAlso in I, the Worst of All (1990)

Gabriel García MárquezBoth received Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Czesław MiłoszBoth received Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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