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Works by Octavio Paz

The Labyrinth of Solitude 1,309 copies, 10 reviews
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957–1987 362 copies, 1 review
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism 274 copies, 2 reviews
Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith 261 copies, 6 reviews
In Light of India 235 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poems 150 copies, 1 review
The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, the Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History 147 copies, 3 reviews
El laberinto de la soledad, Postdata, Vuelta a El laberinto de la soledad… 138 copies, 6 reviews
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (Translator) 137 copies, 5 reviews
The Monkey Grammarian 122 copies, 1 review
Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare 120 copies
A Tree Within 98 copies, 2 reviews
Sunstone 95 copies, 1 review
Libertad Bajo Palabra 95 copies, 1 review

The Other Voice: Essays on Modern Poetry 95 copies

Alternating Current 92 copies

Eagle or Sun 86 copies, 3 reviews

Configurations 84 copies

A Draft of Shadows 80 copies, 1 review

Mexican Poetry: An Anthology (Editor) 75 copies

Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde 73 copies, 2 reviews

Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature 72 copies

On Poets and Others 69 copies, 1 review

One Earth, Four or Five Worlds: Reflections on Contemporary History 68 copies

Conjunctions and Disjunctions 62 copies

Early Poems, 1935–1955 59 copies, 1 review

Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey 58 copies, 3 reviews

An Erotic Beyond: Sade 58 copies, 1 review

Essays on Mexican Art 57 copies

In praise of hands: contemporary crafts of the world 57 copies

Claude Levi-Strauss: An Introduction 39 copies

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World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Contributor) 349 copies, 2 reviews
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (Contributor) 174 copies, 1 review
The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America (Contributor) 125 copies, 2 reviews
My Life with the Wave (Author) 120 copies, 6 reviews
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (Contributor) 80 copies, 1 review
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries (Introduction) 80 copies
Surrealist Love Poems (Contributor) 74 copies, 1 review
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (Contributor) 61 copies
A Centenary Pessoa (Introduction) 59 copies
The Dedalus Book of Surrealism, I: The Identity of Things (The Identity of… (Contributor) 43 copies
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (Contributor) 37 copies
Diana's Tree (Introduction) 15 copies
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo… (Contributor) 15 copies
Vestenfor måne : 56 fantastiske fortellinger fra hele verden (Contributor) 14 copies

Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (Contributor) 7 copies, 1 review

Random Stories (Introduction, some editions) 6 copies

TriQuarterly 13/14: Contemporary Latin American Literature (Contributor) 3 copies

Leonora Carrington: la mariée du vent 3 copies

New Voices of Hispanic America: An Anthology (Contributor) 2 copies

Montemora No. 1 (Contributor) 2 copies

The Spanish-speaking world : an anthology of cross-cultural perspectives (Contributor) 2 copies

現代詩が若かったころ : シュルレアリスムの詩人たち (Contributor) 1 copy

Projekt Totentanz - memento mori Aspekte des Todes in der Kunst ;… (Contributor) 1 copy

エバは猫の中―ラテンアメリカ文学アンソロジー… (Contributor) 1 copy

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Paz Lozano, Octavio

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Birthplace

Mexico City, Mexico

Place of death

Mexico City, Mexico

Places of residence

Mexico City, Mexico (birth)

Education

University of Mexico

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Garro, Elena (wife|divorced)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1972)

Awards and honors

Nobel Prize in Literature (1990)

Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1982)

Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1981)

Jerusalem Prize (1977)

T. S. Eliot Award (1987)

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Paris Review interview, 1991

Nobel Prize Site

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