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Octavio Paz

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Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet and essayist who gained worldwide renown for his work.[1] He was born near Mexico City on March 31, 1914, to a family of Spanish and native Mexican descent.[2] Paz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.[3]

Life and work

He studied law and literature at the National University of Mexico but abandoned his studies in 1936 to work at a school in Mérida.[4] In 1937 he attended the Second International Writers' Congress in Spain, showing solidarity with the Republican side.[5] He entered the Mexican diplomatic service in 1945 and was sent to Paris, where he wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude.[6] In 1968 he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest of the Tlatelolco massacre.[7]

Ireneo Paz, the grandfather of Octavio Paz, was an intellectual and journalist who served as publisher and printer for several newspapers he started.[8] Because his father was occupied with revolutionary activities, Octavio Paz lived primarily with his grandfather Ireneo during childhood, and through Ireneo's library he gained early exposure to classic Mexican and European literature.[8][9]

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The Poetry Foundation noted that Paz was called "truly international" by a Los Angeles Times contributor.[1] Many Zapatistas were forced into exile, and the Paz family relocated to Los Angeles for a time.[1] Paz returned to Mexico with a mission to popularize the Spanish Republican cause.[1] The decision to place his remains there responded to friends' statements that Paz did not wish to rest in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres.[10][11]

References

  1. "Octavio Paz", Poetry Foundation, 2020-06-07. facts only, no text reused. poetryfoundation.org
  2. Poets, "About Octavio Paz Academy of American Poets", poets.org. facts only, no text reused. poets.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Octavio Paz" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Octavio Paz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Poets, "About Octavio Paz Academy of American Poets", poets.org; "Octavio Paz", Poetry Foundation, 2020-06-07 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Octavio Paz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Thomas, "The Spanish Civil War", Penguin Books, 2012, p. 678 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Octavio Paz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rule, "Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet, Wins Nobel Prize", The New York Times, October 12, 1990 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Octavio Paz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Preface to The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957–1987 by Eliot Weignberger (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Octavio Paz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Krauze, Enrique. Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America. New York: Harper Collins 2011, 122–131.; "Octavio Paz", Poetry Foundation, 2020-06-07; "Octavio Paz", Poetry Foundation, 2020-06-07; quoted in Krauze, Redeemers, 137 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Octavio Paz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Guillermo Sheridan: Poeta con paisaje: ensayos sobre la vida de Octavio Paz. México: ERA, 2004. p. 27.; Jaime Perales Contreras: "Octavio Paz y el circulo de la revista Vuelta". Ann Arbor, Michigan: Proquest, 2007. pp. 46–47. UMI Number 3256542 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Cultura, "Octavio Paz y Marie José Tramini descansan en San Ildefonso", gob.mx, 2024-07-24. facts only, no text reused. gob.mx
  11. "Memorial Octavio Paz", Colegio de San Ildefonso. facts only, no text reused. sanildefonso.org.mx

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Octavio Paz (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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