Word: paz
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...turning out to be a good year for the Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz. Last spring, to celebrate his 76th birthday, Mexico City's Cultural Center of Contemporary Art staged an exhibition ranging from pre-Columbian artifacts to modern paintings and called the show "Octavio Paz: The Privileges of Sight." Last week the Swedish Academy selected him for a privilege he had reason to believe was out of sight...
...years Paz has been a logical candidate with a place on the academy's short list. He has an international reputation as an intellectual and a distinguished body of lyric poetry well suited to the resounding citation that accompanied the announcement: ". . . impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity...
...once again, Nobel touts were caught looking at the wrong continents. Less than an hour before Paz became the winner of the $700,000 prize, rumors were still spreading that the odds-on favorite was Chinese poet Bei Dao. If not he, then possibly Canada's Margaret Atwood, Ireland's Seamus Heaney or the U.S.'s perennial long shot, Joyce Carol Oates...
...very, very surprised," said Paz from New York City, where he was visiting a major mounting of Mexican art at the Metropolitan Museum. Less so was another Latin American writer often mentioned as a future Nobel laureate. A gracious Mario Vargas Llosa described Paz as "one of the greatest poets that the Spanish-language world has produced and, at the same time, a great humanist...
...Nobel physics and chemistry prizes are to be announced today. Last week, Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz won the prize for literature. Two American doctors, Joseph E. Murray, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and E. Donnall Thomas, won the prize in medicine for pioneering organ and bone marrow transplants...