Jaime Perales Contreras was born in

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. Mexican cultural critic, public commentator and scholar. He wrote the first full-fledged biography on Nobel Award Winner for Literature

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican 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 ...

. (Octavio Paz y su círculo intellectual (2013), finalist XX Comillas Award for Biography and History, Barcelona, Spain. Novelist

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, Nobel Award Laureate, praised about Perales's book: "a mandatory reading for understanding the politics and culture of the last twenty years in the Americas of the twentieth century"

Biography

He earned his PhD in literature and cultural studies from

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, and a master's degree in International Relations from the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at

. He did his undergraduate studies in social sciences at ITAM . His previous work on Paz influenced quite a few studies on the poet's work. He worked for 12 years at the

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in the fields of Democracy and Humanitarian Security. He collaborated with different publications in Mexico, the United States and Brazil. As lecturer, he taught at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), the school for U.S. diplomatic personnel based in Rosslyn V.A, at

in Washington D.C, and ITAM in Mexico, City. He was a recipient of the

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, The British Council Award Scholarship and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CONACYT

External links

*Enciclopedia de la literatura en México (fundación para las letras mexicanas, CONACULTA) http://www.elem.mx/autor/datos/4061 *http://noticierostelevisa.esmas.com/cultura/590739/octavio-paz-y-circulo-intelectual/ * http://www.noticiasnet.mx/portal/literatura/cultura/175032-presentan-biograf%C3%AD-intelectual-de-paz *Entrevista a Jaime Perales Contreras sobre Octavio Paz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlzD3xVYfIs * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kct8VEf_ils *Entrevista con Carlos Puig sobre la biografìa de Octavio Paz en Milenio, 14 de febrero del 2014. http://tv.milenio.com/en_15/Entrevista-Jaime-Perales_3_253804695.html *Interview with Jaime Perales Contreras on his book "Octavio Paz y su círculo intelectual" by Hola Cultura in Washington D.C http://www.holacultura.com/2014/04/07/perales-on-octavio-paz-friends/ *http://tvolucion.esmas.com/foro-tv/hora-21/218949/recuerdan-octavio-paz/ *Fulbright Facebook https://www.facebook.com/COMEXUSFulbrightGR/posts/593219490697526 {{DEFAULTSORT:Perales Contreras, Jaime 1963 births Living people Latin American studies Georgetown University alumni Mexican essayists Mexican male writers Male essayists Literary critics of Spanish Latin Americanists 21st-century Mexican historians Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni Mexican literary historians Writers from Mexico City Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni