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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
Rosario Castellanos
Mexican writer
Agustín Yáñez
Mexican writer and statesman
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
José Emilio Pacheco
Mexican author
Alfonso García Robles
Mexican diplomat
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and 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
Johannes V. Jensen
Danish author
George Seferis
Greek writer
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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