Octavio Paz Writer

Octavio Paz Lozano (Spanish pronunciation: [okˈtaβjo pas loˈsano] About this sound audio ; March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer.For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Paz Lozano Octavio (Spanish)
Birth date	March 31, 1914
Birth name	Octavio Paz Lozano
Birth place	Mexico City
Date of death	April 19, 1998
Place of death	Mexico City

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Writer

Career start	1931
Career end	1965
influenced	Carlos Fuentes Juan Goytisolo Eric Whitacre Michael Palmer (poet) Charles Tomlinson Guillermo Sheridan Ilan Stavans Giannina Braschi Eliot Weinberger Monique Fong Wust
influenced by	Nathaniel Hawthorne Alfonso Reyes Antonio Machado Eugenio Montale Juan Ramón Jiménez Gerardo Diego D. H. Lawrence W. B. Yeats Rabindranath Tagore Juana Inés de la Cruz
movement	Existentialism Surrealism