biography
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| (1914–98)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Mexico City, Mexico. He studied at the National University of Mexico, and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. A career diplomat, he served as the Mexican ambassador to India (1962–8), and taught at Texas, Harvard, and Cambridge universities. He was a writer of great energy and versatility, with 30 volumes from 1933; his Collected Poems (1957–87), in Spanish and English, were published in 1988. He also wrote important prose works, notably Tiempo Nublado (1984, trans One Earth, Four or Five Worlds), and later works include The Double Flame: Essays on Love and Eroticism (1996). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. |
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