This unofficial site is designed to give you information on former Nobel Laureates and their work. Specifically, the Octavio Paz Page features a link to his workscarried in bookstores, and four featured Internet links. Also, access is provided to articles and Webpages that discuss his winning of the 1990 Nobel prize for Literature, and a catalog providing even more links added by Nobel Prize Internet Archive visitors.

washintonpost.com: Octavio Paz
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/paz.htm

On this page you will find an article on Paz titled, "Octavio Paz, Mexico's Great Idea Man," by Marie Arana-Ward. In this reflective and insightful article, Arana-Ward muses about the man, his compassion, and his ideas.

About.com: Octavio Paz (19141998)
http://latinoculture.about.com/cs/octaviopaz/

Maintained by "About.com" ("The Human Internet"), this site offers a catalog of links regarding the Nobel prize laureate. On this list is a good biography, an essay Paz gave on literature and publishing today, a link to the Octavio Paz Foundation, an online version of his Nobel lecture, and much more. A helpful place to visit if you need a large quantity of good information about the author.

soulUNMADE: The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz
http://www.unmade.com/issues/1999.08/?sid=review&art=0016&pid=1

At this page maintained by the online literary/arts unmade magazine , you'll find an important five-page review of Paz's Collected Poems. Reviewer Eliot Weinberger "pays a debt" to Paz by penning an insightful and revealing tribute to the writer.

BIOGRAPHY
Octavio Paz (b. 1914) was born in Mexico City of Spanish and Indian descent. Paz's literary and political career began at an early age due to the influence of his grandfather, a journalist, and his father, who worked as a secretary for Emilio Zapata. He published his first poem at 16 and studied literature and law at the National Autonomous University. At the age of 19, Paz published his first collection of poetry, Luna silvestre (Sylvan Moon, 1933). Paz sent a copy of the manuscript to Pablo Neruda, who was so impressed he suggested Paz go to a congress of antifascist writers in Spain. When Paz returned to Mexico he founded the literary journal, Taller, an outlet for the young writers of Latin America. In 1944 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, and two years later entered the Mexican diplomatic service, traveling to Paris, New York, and New Delhi. During this period he wrote his famous study of the Mexican identity, Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). Paz resigned the post in 1968 after Mexican troops killed hundreds of student protesters in Tlatelolco Square. Paz is equally respected for his criticism as well as his poetry, and in 1990 he was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. Octavio Paz succumbed to cancer on April 19, 1998.