The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
Awarded on: 1990-10-11
"for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity"
Octavio Paz
Born: 1914-03-31 in Mexico City, Mexico
Gender: male
Field: Mexican writer, poet and diplomat (1914–1998)
Biography
Octavio Paz Lozano 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.