Octavio Paz

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. This topic is part of Authors within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 5 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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Octavio Paz was a poet and essayist from which country?

Answer: Mexico

Bonus fact: He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.

Which Paz essay examines Mexican identity?

Answer: The Labyrinth of Solitude

Bonus fact: The book is one of his most influential prose works.

Which long Paz poem is structured around the 584-day cycle of Venus?

Answer: Sun Stone

Bonus fact: Sun Stone contains 584 hendecasyllabic lines.

In what year did Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: 1990

Bonus fact: Paz's major prose work The Labyrinth of Solitude was published in 1950.

Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?

Answer: Octavio Paz

Bonus fact: The essay collection was first published in 1950.

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