| Full Name |
Octavio Paz Lozano |
| Date of Birth |
31 March 1914 |
| Place of Birth |
Mexico City, Mexico |
| Date of Death |
19 April 1998 |
| Place of Death |
Mexico City, Mexico |
| Citizenship / Country of Residence |
Mexican |
| Education |
National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Paris |
| Profession |
Poet, essayist, writer, diplomat |
| Years of Activity |
1933-1998 |
| Brief Information |
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet and essayist, considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century in the Spanish language. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 for his passionate writing with an analytic mind, marked by reason, and his autobiography imbued with an understanding of the present. His work explored themes of identity, love, solitude, and Mexican culture. |