Octavio paz como poeta y diplomático mexicano. Es considerado por muchos como uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo 20 y uno de los más grandes poetas de todos los tiempos.Por el conjunto de su obra, fue galardonado con el Premio Miguel de Cervantes 1981, el Premio Internacional Neustadt de Literatura 1982, y el Premio Nobel de Literatura de 1990.
Octavio Paz fue introducido a la literatura al principio de su vida a través de la influencia de la biblioteca de su abuelo, llena de clásicos de la literatura mexicana y europea. Durante la década de 1920, descubrió Gerardo Diego, Juan Ramón Jiménez y Antonio Machado, escritores españoles que tuvieron una gran influencia en sus primeros escritos. Como un adolescente en 1931, Paz publicó sus primeros poemas, entre ellos "Cabellera". Dos años más tarde, a la edad de 19 años, se publicó Luna Silvestre ( "Luna salvaje"), una colección de poemas. En 1932, con unos amigos, fundó su primera crítica literaria, Barandal. En 1937 a la edad de 23, Paz abandonó sus estudios de derecho y dejó la ciudad de México por Yucatán para trabajar en una escuela en Mérida, establecido para los hijos de los campesinos y los trabajadores.
Octavo's poetic theories are widely respected, and his poetry is considered among the best any poet of his generation has yet published. This was confirmed by the Swedish Academy of Letters, which awarded Paz the 1990 Nobel Prize in literature, citing his work's "sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity."
Surrealism may have appealed to Paz partly because of its effort to locate a reality greater than that immediate to the senses. Oriental philosophy promised a similar release from the material world. Paz not only became a profound student of Eastern culture, but lived for a while in Japan. Between 1962 and 1968 he served as the Mexican ambassador to India. He resigned in 1968 as a protest against the massacre of student demonstrators by the Mexican government. Paz was very interested in the world to his north. He lived at various times in the United States and taught at Harvard and the University of Texas.
- He had won many rewards such as..
- Inducted Member of Colegio Nacional, Mexican highly selective academy of arts and sciences 1967[27]
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico) in Literature 1977
- Honorary Doctorate National Autonomous University of Mexico 1978[28]
- Honorary Doctorate (Harvard University) 1980[29]
- Ollin Yoliztli Prize 1980
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize 1981
- Nobel Literature Prize in 1990[30]
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1991[31]
- Premio Mondello (Palermo, Italy)
- Alfonso Reyes International Prize
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature 1982
- Jerusalem Prize
- Menéndez Pelayo International Prize
- Alexis de Tocqueville Prize
- Xavier Villaurrutia Award
From 1969 to 1970 he was Simon Bolivar Chair Professor at Cambridge University. From 1970 to 1974 he lectured at Harvard University, where he held the Charles Eliot Norton professorship. His book Los hijos del limo was the result of those lectures. After the Mexican government closed Plural in 1975, Paz founded Vuelta, another cultural magazine. He was editor of that until his death in 1998, when the magazine closed.
He won the 1977 Jerusalem Prize for literature on the theme of individual freedom. In 1980, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard, and in 1982, he won the Neustadt Prize. Once good friends with novelist Carlos Fuentes, Paz became estranged from him in the 1980s in a disagreement over the Sandinistas, whom Paz opposed and Fuentes supported. In 1988, Paz's magazine Vuelta published criticism of Fuentes by Enrique Krauze, resulting in estrangement between Paz and Fuentes, who had long been friends.
A collection of Paz's poems was published in 1990. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He died of cancer on April 19, 1998, in Mexico City.
Ocatavio paz shaped the way for more latin writers and poets in our future. he went down as one of the best and influenced calm poetry.