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Born March 31, 1914 • Mexico City • Mexico
Died April 19, 1998 (aged 84) • Mexico City • Mexico
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1990) • Cervantes Prize (1981)
Notable Works “Bajo tu clara sombra y otros poemas” • “Sun Stone” • “The Labyrinth of Solitude” • “The Poems of Octavio Paz”

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Jaime Torres Bodet
Mexican writer and statesman
Reyes, Alfonso
Alfonso Reyes
Mexican writer
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Rosario Castellanos
Mexican writer
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Agustín Yáñez
Mexican writer and statesman
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
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José Emilio Pacheco
Mexican author
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Alfonso García Robles
Mexican diplomat
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan author and diplomat
Gabriela Mistral, 1941.
Gabriela Mistral
Chilean poet
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Johannes V. Jensen
Danish author
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George Seferis
Greek writer
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet

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