Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City on 31 March 1914, into a family ruined by the revolution, and grew up in his grandfather's library. He published his first collection in 1933 and in 1937 took part, in Spain, in the congress of antifascist writers. A diplomat from 1945, he lived in Paris near the Surrealists, then was ambassador to India from 1962 to 1968, a post he left after the Tlatelolco massacre. He founded the magazines Plural and Vuelta, received the Nobel Prize in 1990 and died in Mexico City on 19 April 1998.

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