Word: paz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Octavio Paz, a Mexican poet who resigned as ambassador to India in 1968 to protest the killing of Mexican students by government troops, will be next year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard...
...Paz-who was selected by the Corporation from a list of 12 nominees-is considered one of the two or three greatest contemporary Spanish speaking poets...
...Right now you do not have a more representative voice for Latin America -representative in many different ways-than Octavio Paz." Marichal said. "He's not only an ambassador, but a critic of himself and the world. He has been a very brave...
...Paz, who was born in Mexico City in 1914, began to write poetry as a young man. He travelled to Spain during that country's Civil War, later founding a review on which many Spanish writers, exiled in Mexico after Franco's victory, collaborated...
...Paz has a wide range of artistic interests. His most recent concern has been the relationship between poetry, space, and movement. He recently inscribed a poem on four cardboard disks, so that by moving each disk he could give the poem a different meaning...