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Octavio Paz

1914–1998 · Mexico · Contemporary (profiles)

Mexico’s Octavio Paz was a poet, essayist and diplomat whose long poem Sun Stone is one of the masterpieces of Spanish-language poetry. He won the Nobel Prize in 1990.

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What are Octavio Paz’s best-known books?

Sun Stone (1957), The Labyrinth of Solitude (prose) (1950).

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