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Sunstone | Octavio Paz

willow of crystal, a poplar of water,
a pillar of fountain by the wind drawn over,
tree that is firmly rooted and that dances,
turning course of a river that goes curving,
advances and retreats, goes roundabout,
arriving forever:

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Born: March 31, 1914, Mexico City, Mexico
Died: April 19, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico
father:Octavio Paz Solórzano
mother:Josefina Lozano
wife: Elena Garro (M. 1938–1959), Marie-José Tramini (M. 1963–1998)
His children:Helena
Religion: Roman Catholic

Mexican author Octavio Paz enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a master poet and essayist.

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Piedra de sol

The Labyrinth of solitude

No more cliches

Two bodies

The bird

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In 1932, Octavio Paz Lozano entered National Autonomous University of Mexico. Here he was drawn to the leftist movement. Along with his studies and political activism, he also concentrated on writing, publishing a number of poems in the same year.

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His poetry dealt with love and eroticism, the nature of time, and Buddhism. He also wrote poetry about his other passion, modern painting, dedicating poems to the work of Balthus, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Tàpies, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roberto Matta.

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Octavio Paz Lozano was a Nobel Prize winning Mexican poet, essayist and a diplomat born in the middle of the Civil War that raged through the country in the early twentieth century.

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Originally Paz supported the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, but after learning of the murder of one of his friends by the Republicans, he became gradually disillusioned. While in Paris in the early 1950s, influenced by David Rousset, André Breton and Albert Camus, he started publishing his critical views on totalitarianism in general, and particularly against Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union.

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He won the 1977 Jerusalem Prize for literature on the theme of individual freedom. In 1980, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard, and in 1982, he won the Neustadt Prize.

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Paz won the Nobel Prize in 1990, and died eight years later at the age of 84. His passing was mourned as the end of an era for Mexico. According to his obituary in Americas, "Paz's literary career helped to define modern poetry and the Mexican personality.