In Search of the Present, 1990 Nobel Lecture
By Octavio Paz
1991
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Octavio Paz, born in Mexico City in 1914, is a poet, critic, and essayist. The Swedish Academy of Letters awarded Octavio Paz the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. This is the lecture he gave for the 1990 Nobel Lecture. This is a bilingual edition.
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Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.")
