Octavio Paz
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1990for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity
- Citizenship
Mexico
Second Spanish Republic- Languages
- Spanish
- date of birth
- 3/31/1914
- place of birth
- Mexico City
- date of death
- 4/19/1998
- place of death
- Mexico City
- Lived
- 84 years
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- occupation
- essayist
- university teacher
- diplomat
- translator
- writer
- literary critic
- philosopher
- poet
- librettist
- lyricist
- politician
- field of work
- Mexican literature
- Mexican poetry
- essay
- poetry
- educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Colegio Williams
- employer
- University of Paris
- University of Cambridge
- position held
- ambassador of Mexico to India
- start time: 1962
- end time: 1968
- ambassador of Mexico to India
- member of
- Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
- Brazilian Academy of Letters
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Colegio Nacional