Octavio Paz
(1914–1998)

Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and attended the National University there. He began his literary career at the age of 17 and achieved international acclaim as a poet, critic, and social philosopher. The Green Wave (1948) and Sun Stone (1963) have been translated into English and published in the United States. According to one critic, Paz saw his poems as "journeys" or "bridges of words" across which the poet travels from one side to another. He is considered to be a master poet as well as an essayist. One of his most famous works The Labyrinth of Solitude, for example, is a comprehensive portrait of Mexican society. Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

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