![]() ![]() It was in 1990 that Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." Paz died of cancer in 1998. In 1977, Paz was awarded the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for literature and in 1982 he was awarded the Neustadt Prize. He understood that he would receive harsh criticism and he did. He correctly diagnosed that, in fact, the Mexican was stuck in a labyrinth and condemned to find a way out, and in many respects is still trying to find that way out. From 1970 to 1974 Paz lectured at Harvard University, where he was made an honorary doctor in 1980. Octavio Paz wrote the definitive sociological book that deciphered the Mexican character. In 1945 Paz became a Mexican diplomat and moved to Paris, where he would write his masterpiece The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), a collection of nine essays regarding the Mexican identity. In 1943 Paz received a Guggenheim Fellowship and he moved to the United States in order to study at the University of California, where he stayed for two years. His family was forced into exile, which they served in the United States, after the assassination of Mexican president Zapata, in 1919. The Nobel Prize-winning OCTAVIO PAZ was born in 1914, near Mexico City. ![]()
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