Octavio Paz (1914-1998), the Nobel Prize-winning poet, critic, philosopher, and diplomat, spent 14 years in newly-independent India from 1952-1968, the last six of those years as ambassador from ...

Octavio Paz was one of the most outstanding poets in Mexico, ... After publishing Luna Silvestre (1933) and the poetry book dedicated to the Spanish civil war, They will not pass!

Octavio Paz, edited and trans. from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, $39.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2043-9 Paz (1914–1998), who won the Nobel Prize in 1990, dominated Mexican ...

Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, with his wife, Marie Jose, in New York. ( File 1990 - The New York Times ) ... essays and books. When Paz died in 1998, ...

Paz, an essayist, poet, translator, and diplomat, published more than 60 books. At the age of 19 the budding author released his first book of poetry -- "Luna Silvestre" or "Forest Moon." ...

MEXICO CITY -- She, beautiful and romantic and still grieving over the loss of her husband, writer Octavio Paz, surrounds herself with his books and takes telephone calls on one side of the ...

Paz was indisputably one of Latin America’s leading poets, a fact borne out by the towering corpus of his oeuvre, and the several awards he won, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in ...

Amherst Scholar Ilan Stavans has been called "the czar of Latino culture in the United States," and this elegantly slender, deftly wrought tribute to the Mexican literary titan Octavio Paz more ...