WRITER

Octavio Paz

1914 - 1998

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Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octavio Paz has received more than 1,123,717 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Octavio Paz is the 370th most popular writer (up from 470th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Writer.

Octavio Paz is most famous for being a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.

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  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Corriente alterna
1967
Poems
1962
El laberinto de la soledad
1950
Tiempo nublado
Spanish language materials
1983
Libertad bajo palabra
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Octavio Paz ranks 370 out of 7,302. Before him are Mario Puzo, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Paul Auster, Jo Nesbø, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Ennius. After him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Tulsidas, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Grazia Deledda, Enheduanna, and Theocritus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Octavio Paz ranks 10. Before him are Tove Jansson, Thor Heyerdahl, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, and Michael Wittmann. After him are Julio Cortázar, Alec Guinness, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Richard Widmark, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Bohumil Hrabal. Among people deceased in 1998, Octavio Paz ranks 9. Before him are Frank Sinatra, Jean Marais, Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, Carlos Castaneda, and Ernst Jünger. After him are Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, Yang Shangkun, Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, and Alan Shepard.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Octavio Paz ranks 8 out of 729. Before him are Anthony Quinn (1915), Diego Rivera (1886), Moctezuma II (1466), Emiliano Zapata (1879), Carlos Slim (1940), and Pancho Villa (1878). After him are Porfirio Díaz (1830), Carlos Santana (1947), Cuauhtémoc (1495), Salma Hayek (1966), Benito Juárez (1806), and Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794).

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Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Octavio Paz ranks 1. After him are Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), Juan Rulfo (1917), Fernando del Paso (1935), Laura Esquivel (1950), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Mariano Azuela (1873), José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Amado Nervo (1870), and Cesar Millan (1969).

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