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Octavio Paz

1914 - 1998

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Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Octavio Paz is the 393rd most popular writer (down from 370th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Writer.

Octavio Paz is most famous for being a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.

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Among writers, Octavio Paz ranks 393 out of 7,302. Before him are Julio Cortázar, Auguste Escoffier, Cornelius Nepos, Elena Ferrante, Sylvia Plath, and Paul Éluard. After him are Enheduanna, Joseph Roth, Christopher Marlowe, Giosuè Carducci, Harry Martinson, and Aulus Cornelius Celsus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Octavio Paz ranks 13. Before him are Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, and Julio Cortázar. After him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Alec Guinness, Jiang Qing, Richard Widmark, Michael Wittmann, and Jack LaLanne. Among people deceased in 1998, Octavio Paz ranks 13. Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, and Carlos Castaneda. After him are Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Florence Griffith Joyner, Derek Barton, Niklas Luhmann, and Conrad Schumann.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Octavio Paz ranks 9 out of 729. Before him are Anthony Quinn (1915), Moctezuma II (1466), Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Emiliano Zapata (1879), Carlos Santana (1947), and Carlos Slim (1940). After him are Pancho Villa (1878), Cuauhtémoc (1495), Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794), Porfirio Díaz (1830), Benito Juárez (1806), and Claudia Sheinbaum (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Octavio Paz ranks 1. After him are Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648), Juan Rulfo (1917), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), Laura Esquivel (1950), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Mariano Azuela (1873), Fernando del Paso (1935), Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928), José Emilio Pacheco (1939), and Don Miguel Ruiz (1952).

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