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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Sunstone/Piedra De Sol
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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
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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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40 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)
Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea) (1954)
Gabriel García Márquez (1982)
Toni Morrison (1993)
José Saramago (1998)
Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)
Annie Ernaux (2022)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1964)
Orhan Pamuk (2006)
Bob Dylan (2016)
Olga Tokarczuk (2018)
John Steinbeck (1962)
Rudyard Kipling (1907)
Henri Bergson (1927)
Albert Camus (1957)
Samuel Beckett (1969)
Seamus Heaney (1995)
Elfriede Jelinek (2004)
Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021)
Gao Xingjian (2000)
Theodor Mommsen (A History of Rome) (1902)
Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
Romain Rolland (1915)
W.B. Yeats (1923)
George Bernard Shaw (1925)
Sigrid Undset (1928)
Hermann Hesse (1946)
T.S. Eliot (1948)
Bertrand Russell (1950)
Patrick White (1973)
Saul Bellow (1976)
Odysseas Elytis (1979)
Naguib Mahfouz (1988)
Svetlana Alexievich (2015)
Peter Handke (2019)
Louise Glück (2020)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905)
Giosuè Carducci (1906)
Selma Lagerlöf (1909)
Henrik Pontoppidan (1917)
Anatole France (1921)
Jacinto Benavente (1922)
Sinclair Lewis (1930)
Winston Churchill (1953)
Halldór Laxness (1955)
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956)
Boris Pasternak (1958)
Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
Jaroslav Seifert (1984)
Derek Walcott (1992)
Günter Grass (1999)
Herta Müller (2009)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903)
José Echegaray (1904)
Paul Heyse (1910)
Maurice Maeterlinck (1911)
Karl Gjellerup (1917)
Knut Hamsun (Growth of the Soil) (1920)
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (The Peasants) (1924)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931)
John Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga) (1932)
Luigi Pirandello (1934)
Roger Martin du Gard (The Thibaults) (1937)
Frans Emil Sillanpää (1939)
Johannes V. Jensen (1944)
Gabriela Mistral (1945)
William Faulkner (1949)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)
Ivo Andrić (1961)
George Seferis (1963)
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
Pablo Neruda (1971)
Eugenio Montale (1975)
Czesław Miłosz (1980)
Elias Canetti (1981)
William Golding (1983)
Joseph Brodsky (1987)
Wisława Szymborska (1996)
Imre Kertész (2002)
J.M. Coetzee (2003)
Doris Lessing (2007)
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
Alice Munro (2013)
Patrick Modiano (2014)
Frédéric Mistral (1904)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
Verner von Heidenstam (1916)
Carl Spitteler (Olympian Spring) (1919)
Grazia Deledda (1926)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933)
Eugene O'Neill (1936)
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
André Gide (1947)
Pär Lagerkvist (1951)
François Mauriac (1952)
Saint-John Perse (1960)
Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don) (1965)
S.Y. Agnon (1966)
Nelly Sachs (1966)
Heinrich Böll (1972)
Eyvind Johnson (1974)
Harry Martinson (1974)
Vicente Aleixandre (1977)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
Claude Simon (1985)
Wole Soyinka (1986)
Camilo José Cela (1989)
Octavio Paz (1990)
Nadine Gordimer (1991)
Kenzaburō Ōe (1994)
Dario Fo (1997)
V.S. Naipaul (2001)
Harold Pinter (2005)
J.M.G. Le Clézio (2008)
Tomas Tranströmer (2011)
Mo Yan (2012)
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