Octavio paz

Octavio Paz Lozano (Mexico City, March 31, 1914 - ibid, April 19, 1998) was a poet, writer, essayist and Mexican diplomat, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. He is considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and one of the greatest poets of all Hispanics tiempos.1 His extensive work spanned several genres, including poems stood, testing and education traduccionesSu began in the United States, where Paz Solórzano came in October 1916 as a representative of Zapata.5 returned to Mexico nearly four years later, in 1920, with his father, who retired from politics in 1928 and, in 1936, died in the Santa Marta Acatitla as a result of an accident caused by his intoxication. [citation needed]
He attended Williams College, located in Karachi, and high school in Morelos French College (now University Center Mexico) in Mexico City.
Paz had contact with literature since childhood thanks to his grandfather, who was familiar with both the classical and the modern. During the decade of 1920-1930 discovered the European poets Gerardo Diego, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Antonio Machado, who also influenced his earliest writings. He published his first poem as a teenager in 1931, under the name Sea of ​​day, which added an epigraph from the French poet Saint-John Perse. Two years later, at the age of 19, wild moon appeared, and by 1937, Paz was already considered the most promising young poet of the Mexican capital.