Editing Octavio Paz (section)

==Later life==
In [[New Delhi]], as Ambassador of Mexico to [[India]], Paz completed several works, including ''El mono gramático'' (''The Monkey Grammarian'') and ''Ladera este'' (''Eastern Slope''). While in India, he met numerous writers of a group known as the [[Hungry Generation]] and had a profound influence on them.

In 1965, he married Marie-José Tramini, a French woman who would be his wife for the rest of his life. That fall, he went to [[Cornell University]] and taught two courses, one in Spanish and the other in English—the magazine ''LIFE en Español'' published a piece, illustrated with several pictures, about his tenure there in their July 4, 1966 issue. He subsequently returned to Mexico.

In 1968, Paz resigned from the diplomatic service in protest against the Mexican government's [[Tlatelolco massacre|massacre of student demonstrators in Tlatelolco]];<ref>Preface to ''The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957–1987'' by Eliot Weignberger</ref> after seeking refuge in Paris, he again returned to Mexico in 1969, where he founded his magazine ''Plural'' (1970–1976) with a group of liberal Mexican and Latin American writers.
From 1969 to 1970, Paz was [[Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies|Simón Bolívar Professor]] at the [[University of Cambridge]]. He was also a visiting lecturer during the late 1960s, and the [[A. D. White]] Professor-at-Large from 1972 to 1974 at Cornell. In 1974, he was the [[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures|Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry]] at [[Harvard University]]; his book ''Los hijos del limo'' (''Children of the Mire'') was the result of his lectures. After the Mexican government closed ''Plural'' in 1975, Paz founded ''[[Vuelta (magazine)|Vuelta]]'', another cultural magazine. He was editor of that until his death in 1998, when the magazine closed.

Paz won the 1977 [[Jerusalem Prize]] for literature on the theme of individual freedom. In 1980, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard, and in 1982, he won the [[Neustadt Prize]]. Once good friends with novelist [[Carlos Fuentes]], Paz became estranged from him in the 1980s in a disagreement over the [[Sandinistas]], whom Paz opposed and Fuentes supported.;<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/books/carlos-fuentes-mexican-novelist-dies-at-83.html |title=Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Man of Letters, Dies at 83 |author=Anthony DePalma |date=May 15, 2012 |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 16, 2012}}</ref> in 1988, Paz's magazine ''[[Vuelta (magazine)|Vuelta]]'' published criticism of Fuentes by [[Enrique Krauze]], resulting in the estrangement.<ref name=WP>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/carlos-fuentes-mexican-novelist-dies-at-83/2012/05/15/gIQAx7dxRU_story.html |title=Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, dies at 83 |author=Marcela Valdes |date=May 16, 2012 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 16, 2012}}</ref>

A collection of Paz's poems (written between 1957 and 1987) was published in 1990, and in that year, he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref name="Nobel Prize Literature 1990">{{Nobelprize|accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref>

Paz died of cancer on April 19, 1998, in Mexico City.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23163-24439-71?cc=1923424&wc=M9W1-L3L:1513580468 |title=Civil Death Registration |author=México, Distrito Federal, Registro Civil |date=20 Apr 1998 |website=FamilySearch.org  |publisher=Genealogical Society of Utah. 2002 |access-date=22 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Arana-Ward |first1=Marie |year=1998 |title=Octavio Paz, Mexico's Great Idea Man |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/paz.htm |access-date=October 3, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kandell |first1=Jonathan |year=1998 |title=Octavio Paz, Mexico's Man of Letters, Dies at 84  |journal=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/books/octavio-paz-mexico-s-man-of-letters-dies-at-84.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=October 3, 2013}}</ref> His ashes, along with those of his spouse, Marie-José Tramini, are kept at a memorial in the [[Colegio de San Ildefonso]] in Mexico City.<ref>{{cite web | last=Cultura | first=Secretaría de | title=Octavio Paz y Marie José Tramini descansan en San Ildefonso | website=gob.mx | date=2024-07-24 | url=https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/octavio-paz-y-marie-jose-tramini-descansan-en-san-ildefonso | language=es | access-date=2025-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Memorial Octavio Paz | website=Colegio de San Ildefonso | url=https://www.sanildefonso.org.mx/memorialpaz/ | language=es | access-date=2025-02-25}}</ref>

[[Guillermo Sheridan]], who in 1998 was named by Paz as director of the Octavio Paz Foundation, published a book, ''Poeta con paisaje'' (2004), with several biographical essays about the poet.{{cn|date=February 2025}}