Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz (Spanish: Octavio Paz, March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet, scholar, critic, novelist, translator, and diplomat. He wrote poems, essays, novels, political essays, and literary criticism. Born on March 31, 1914 in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, and died on April 20, 1998 in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. His outstanding poetry creation earned him the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor for Spanish literature, in 1981. In 1990, he became the 10th winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature writing in Spanish. He was also the fifth Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature after Gabriela Mistral, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Pablo Neruda and García Márquez. He inherited the beautiful Spanish and Latin American Spanish poetry tradition, and carried forward the great literary legacy of Pablo Neruda (Chile), winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain), winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature, Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo, and Chilean poet Vicente Hudofro. "The Sunstone" is considered to be his award-winning representative work.