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OCTAVIO PAZ, 1914-98 PASSIONATE AND FRANK, HE MAPPED THE SOUL OF MEXICO
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Octavio Paz did more than anyone else in the 20th century to
define the Mexican people. And in trying to understand that
complex, tragic, and mysterious people, Paz sought to dissect all
of human existence.
Paz, who died Sunday night at age 84, was a Renaissance man
whose works of prose and poetry probed the web of history and time
and human solitude. He was at once both the most cosmopolitan of
Mexico's writers and the most Mexican.
The citation for Paz's 1990 Nobel Prize for li...
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OCTAVIO PAZ, 1914-98 PASSIONATE AND FRANK, HE MAPPED THE SOUL OF MEXICO
The Boston Globe
; ... in the link between independence and creativity. "Writers should be independent, free, and solitary," Paz said after receiving news of his Nobel. He started out, as many Mexican intellectuals have, as a leftist who went to Spain to support the Republicans against ...
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Paz probed tragic solitude of humanity Nobel Prize winner's work found union of cultures at heart of Mexico
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Octavio Paz did more than anyone else in the 20th century to define the Mexican people. And in trying to understand that complex, tragic and mysterious people, Paz sought to dissect all of human existence. Paz, who died Sunday night at age 84, was a Renaissance man whose works of prose and poetry
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Remembering Octavio Paz.
World Literature Today
; I first met Octavio Paz in Paris, in 1951. I was studying Spanish and comparative literature at the Sorbonne. Paz was the Cultural Attache of Mexico. Born in 1914, he had started to write poetry while still very young, around 1931, and was already famous in Mexico and well known in France and
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 "Providence Journal (Providence, RI)")
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Out of debt, Paz no longer on the ropes.
Providence Journal (Providence, RI)
; ... newspaper, go to http://www.projo.com. Copyright (c) 2006, The Providence Journal, R.I. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-65 ...
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Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998)
Americas
; The death earlier this year of Nobel laureate Octavio Paz marked the end of an epoch. Spanning most of the twentieth century, Paz's literary career helped to define modern poetry and the Mexican personality. As a poet, Paz transformed and universalized the contemporary lyric, incorporating
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 "All Things Considered (NPR)")
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Katie Davis talks with poet Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for...
All Things Considered (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 KATIE DAVIS, Host: Octavio Paz came to Washington, D.C., two weeks back to read his poetry, the first time the Mexican writer read in public in the United States since he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1990. OCTAVIO PAZ, Nobel Prize Winner: [through interpreter] Here, my
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PAZ'S TIME MAY HAVE PASSED TIMING GONE, HE'S CLOCKED BY DAVIS
The Boston Globe
; MASHANTUCKET, Conn. - The end comes for all fighters and usually in the same way. Bloody and broken. It was no different last night for Vinny Pazienza, who now legally goes by his nickname, "Paz." His timing gone after a 15-month layoff and too many punches from too many wars, the 38-year-old super
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Paz leaves it all in the ring; Final win a typical struggle.(Sports)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: George Kimball MASHANTUCKET, Conn. - Prizefighters can be like other predatory animals in that they're often energized by the sight of blood. What made Vinny Paz different is that it was almost always his own. Most boxers start fighting at the opening bell, but Vinny rarely got going until
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Mexico's Octavio Paz wins Nobel in literature
Chicago Sun-Times
; STOCKHOLM, Sweden Octavio Paz, who explores the Mexican character and the universal themes of love, death and loneliness in lyrical poetry and impassioned essays, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy awarded Paz the prize for his "exquisite love poetry, at the same time
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MEXICO'S PAZ WINS LITERATURE NOBEL
The Boston Globe
; Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet and man of letters in the grand tradition, as well as an at times controversial patriarch of Latin American culture, has won this year's Nobel Prize for literature. The announcement was made yesterday in Stockholm. The Swedish Academy, in selecting Paz, cited the
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