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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz (1914 March 31 (Mexico City) — 1998) was a poet, critic, and diplomat. He wrote The Other Mexico; The Bow and the Lyre and received the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
His father worked as a secretary for the anarchist Emilio Zapata.
In 1937 during the Spanish Revolution, Paz participated in the Second International Congress of Anti-Fascist Writers in Valencia and met, among others, André Malraux, André Gide. and Ilya Ehrenburg (recorded in the collection Bajo Tu Clara Sombra Y Otros Poemas (1937)).
By the time the Cold War began, Octavio Paz rejected the Marxist left. His works show in turn influence by Marxism, surrealism (together with André Breton and Benjamin Peret), existentialism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Central themes were history, violence, lies and truth, corruption, and revolution, as reflected in the reality of Latin American and its literature. Many of Pazʼs later poems are based on paintings by Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Tapies, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roberto Matta.
