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Born April 17, 1902 • Mexico City • Mexico
Died May 13, 1974 (aged 72) • Mexico City • Mexico
Notable Works “Biombo” • “Cripta” • “Fervor” • “La casa” • “Los días”
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
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Rosario Castellanos
Mexican writer
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Agustín Yáñez
Mexican writer and statesman
Reyes, Alfonso
Alfonso Reyes
Mexican writer
Vasconcelos, José
José Vasconcelos
Mexican educator
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
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José Emilio Pacheco
Mexican author
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Fernando del Paso
Mexican author and artist
Nervo, Amado
Amado Nervo
Mexican author
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Ramón López Velarde
Mexican poet
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José Agustín
Mexican author
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Lezama Lima, José
José Lezama Lima
Cuban author
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
Black-and-white portrait of Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, resting his head on one hand and wearing a pinstripe suit and tie.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentine author

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