Octavio Paz
Born
in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
March 31, 1914
Died
April 19, 1998
Genre
Influences
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The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
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138 editions
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1950
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The Collected Poems, 1957-1987
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17 editions
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1991
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
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51 editions
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1993
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Piedra de Sol = Sunstone
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41 editions
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1957
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe
28 editions
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1982
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In Light Of India
36 editions
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1995
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El arco y la lira
47 editions
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1956
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Libertad bajo palabra
37 editions
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1966
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¿Águila o Sol?
28 editions
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1951
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The Monkey Grammarian
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13 editions
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1974
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“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
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“Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.”
― The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
― The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Polls

The best winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Han Kang (2024)
Sully Prudhomme (1901)
Jon Fosse (2023)
Gabriel García Márquez (1982)
Toni Morrison (1993)
Annie Ernaux (2022)
José Saramago (1998)
Bob Dylan (2016)
Orhan Pamuk (2006)
Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)
Rudyard Kipling (1907)
Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea) (1954)
Albert Camus (1957)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1964)
Samuel Beckett (1969)
Olga Tokarczuk (2018)
George Bernard Shaw (1925)
John Steinbeck (1962)
Seamus Heaney (1995)
Louise Glück (2020)
Theodor Mommsen (A History of Rome) (1902)
Henri Bergson (1927)
Elfriede Jelinek (2004)
Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905)
Romain Rolland (1915)
W.B. Yeats (1923)
T.S. Eliot (1948)
Odysseas Elytis (1979)
Naguib Mahfouz (1988)
Gao Xingjian (2000)
Svetlana Alexievich (2015)
Selma Lagerlöf (1909)
Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
Sigrid Undset (1928)
Hermann Hesse (1946)
William Faulkner (1949)
Bertrand Russell (1950)
Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
Patrick White (1973)
Saul Bellow (1976)
Joseph Brodsky (1987)
Peter Handke (2019)
Giosuè Carducci (1906)
Maurice Maeterlinck (1911)
Karl Gjellerup (1917)
Henrik Pontoppidan (1917)
Anatole France (1921)
Jacinto Benavente (1922)
Sinclair Lewis (1930)
Luigi Pirandello (1934)
Winston Churchill (1953)
Halldór Laxness (1955)
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956)
Boris Pasternak (1958)
Ivo Andrić (1961)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
Jaroslav Seifert (1984)
Derek Walcott (1992)
Wisława Szymborska (1996)
Günter Grass (1999)
Herta Müller (2009)
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
Alice Munro (2013)
Patrick Modiano (2014)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903)
Frédéric Mistral (1904)
José Echegaray (1904)
Paul Heyse (1910)
Carl Spitteler (Olympian Spring) (1919)
Knut Hamsun (Growth of the Soil) (1920)
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (The Peasants) (1924)
Grazia Deledda (1926)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931)
John Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga) (1932)
Roger Martin du Gard (The Thibaults) (1937)
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
Frans Emil Sillanpää (1939)
Johannes V. Jensen (1944)
Gabriela Mistral (1945)
André Gide (1947)
Pär Lagerkvist (1951)
François Mauriac (1952)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)
George Seferis (1963)
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967)
Pablo Neruda (1971)
Eyvind Johnson (1974)
Harry Martinson (1974)
Eugenio Montale (1975)
Czesław Miłosz (1980)
Elias Canetti (1981)
William Golding (1983)
Claude Simon (1985)
Octavio Paz (1990)
Kenzaburō Ōe (1994)
V.S. Naipaul (2001)
Imre Kertész (2002)
J.M. Coetzee (2003)
Doris Lessing (2007)
Tomas Tranströmer (2011)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
Verner von Heidenstam (1916)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933)
Eugene O'Neill (1936)
Saint-John Perse (1960)
Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don) (1965)
S.Y. Agnon (1966)
Nelly Sachs (1966)
Heinrich Böll (1972)
Vicente Aleixandre (1977)
Wole Soyinka (1986)
Camilo José Cela (1989)
Nadine Gordimer (1991)
Dario Fo (1997)
Harold Pinter (2005)
J.M.G. Le Clézio (2008)
Mo Yan (2012)
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