Octavio Paz
1914 – 1998 · Mexico · Literature, Philosophy
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1990
The Labyrinth of Solitude defined Mexican self-understanding.
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- Pablo Neruda
1904 – 1973 · Literature
Their break over politics and form shaped two generations of Spanish American poetry.
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1648 – 1695 · Literature, Philosophy
Paz's Sor Juana biography reads her as the origin of Mexican letters.
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- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Literature, 1990
The Nobel Foundation · Primary source
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