Octavio Paz. He was born in 1914 in Mexico City. An early vocation writer, he participated in the II International Congress of Antifascist Writers, held in Valencia in 1937. In 1938 he collaborated in the founding of Taller, a magazine that promoted a new generation of Mexican writers. In 1943 he moved to the United States, where he discovered and immersed himself in the poetry of Anglo-American modernism. He entered, in 1945, in the diplomatic corps of Mexico and was posted to Paris, where he actively participated in the surrealist movement. In 1962, he was appointed ambassador to India: an important milestone in the life and work of the poet, present in works such as The Grammar Monkey, East Slope and Glimpses of India. In 1968 he resigned from his post in protest at the repression of student demonstrations in the Plaza de Tlatelolco. Since then, Paz has continued his work and founded two important magazines: Plural (1971-1976) and Vuelta (1976-1998), awarded the Prince of Asturias Award. Octavio Paz received the Cervantes Prize in 1981 and the Nobel Prize in 1990. He died in Mexico on April 19, 1998.