World Literature Today, January 1st, 1999
Mexican writer Octavio Paz was a celebrated author, translator and literary critic who wrote fiction, poetry, and philosophy. He resigned his position as Mexico's ambassador to India in 1968, after the Mexican government massacred hundreds of students protesting for a more democratic political system. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.
I first met Octavio Paz in Paris, in 1951. I was studying Spanish and comparative literature at the Sorbonne. Paz was the Cultural Attache of Mexico. Born in 1914, he had started to write poetry while still very young, around 1931, and was already f...
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