Octavio Paz was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

- The Bow and the Lyre (Texas Pan American Series) 1956 poetry language, imagination, myth en

- Alternating Current 1967 non-fiction essays, drugs, politics, art en

- Marcel Duchamp 1968 biography art, perception, irony, eroticism en

- The Monkey Grammarian 1974 poetry language, grammar, poetry, meaning en

- On Poets and Others 1986 non-fiction essays, poetry, literary criticism, tradition, language en

- The Double Flame 1993 non-fiction sex, eroticism, love, essays en

- The Siren and the Seashell: And Other Essays on 2013 non-fiction essays, literary criticism, poetry, language, latin america en

- Conjunctions and Disjunctions 2015 non-fiction essays, suality, language, eroticism, culture en

- In Light of India 2017 non-fiction essays, india, culture, history en