The Resume

(March 31, 1914-April 19, 1998)
Birth name is Octavio Paz Lozano
Wrote ‘Luna Silvestre (1933),' ‘Between Stone and Flower (1941),' ‘The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950),' ‘Sun Stone (1957),' ‘Salamandra (1962),' ‘Children of the Mire (1974),' ‘One Earth, Four or Five Worlds (1983),' ‘The Other Voice (1990)' and ‘The Double Flame (1993)'
Diplomat to France 1945-1962
Ambassador to India 1962-1968
Nobel Prize for Literature 1990

Why he might be annoying:

Like many socialists his background was thoroughly bourgeois.
He studied law and literature at university but never received a degree.
For awhile he supported Josef Stalin and championed the Cuban revolution.
In 1987, he argued the United States should try to coexist with the Soviet Union.

Why he might not be annoying:

His father's support of Emiliano Zapata forced his family to flee Mexico for a time.
He published his first poems when still a teenager.
Unlike many of his peers, he eventually renounced Stalinism.
In 1968, he resigned as an ambassador to protest the killing of 200 student protestors by the Mexican army.
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas LLosa called him ‘One of the greatest poets that the Spanish language world has produced and, at the same time, a great humanist.'

Credit: Georgina

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Poets
• College Drop Outs
• Georgina/Devil Doll's Profiles [Series 1]
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• I am Mexican
• I Attended University of California, Berkeley
• I Died in 1998 (Ranked: 84)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• Look at Me, I Got a Microphone
• Look at Me, I'm Thirsty
• Look at Me, I'm Wearing an Uncontrollable Tie
• Look at My Fist
• Lycos' Top 10 Poets of the 20th Century Searches [1999] (Ranked: 10)
• National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read Selections [Authors] (Ranked: 2010)
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• Poets
• Profiles 18251-18500 (Ranked: 18379)
• World Literature Today Top 40 [2001] (Ranked: 1950)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 64 Votes: 67.19% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 21 Votes: 61.90% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 30 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 75 Votes: 69.33% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 90 Votes: 58.89% Annoying