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Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz

1914 – 1998 · aged 84

Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)

Born
31 Mar 1914 · Mixcoac
Died
19 Apr 1998 · Mexico City
Part ofMexico1466 – todayAtheism460 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 97 years
  1. 31 Mar 1914BornBorn in Mixcoac
  2. 1943AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  3. 1945AwardNational Prize for Arts and Sciences
  4. 1962 – 1968RoleAmbassador of Mexico to India
  5. 1964AwardXavier Villaurrutia Award
  6. 1977AwardJerusalem Prize
  7. 1981AwardMiguel de Cervantes Prize
  8. 1982AwardNeustadt International Prize for Literature
  9. 1984AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
  10. 1985AwardAlfonso Reyes International Prize
  11. 1986AwardGrand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise
  12. 1987AwardMenéndez Pelayo International Prize
  13. 1990AwardNobel Prize in Literature
  14. 1991AwardGrand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  15. 19 Apr 1998DiedDied in Mexico City

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1914 – 1998).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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