Literature · Politics · 1889–1957
Born: 7 April 1889 · Died: 10 January 1957 · Age at death: 67
Gabriela Mistral died aged 67. She was born on 7 April 1889 and died on 10 January 1957.
Chilean poet and educator who became the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945
Did you know?Her face appears on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote and she served as a diplomat in several countries including Spain.
Gabriela Mistral was Latin America's first Nobel laureate in literature. She grew up in a valley in northern Chile and became a rural schoolteacher. She first won fame with her Sonnets of Death, written after the suicide of a man she had loved. Her poems are tender, sorrowful and full of love for children. She helped reform education in Mexico and later served as a Chilean consul abroad. She won the Nobel Prize in 1945. Her face is on Chile's 5,000-peso note.
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (Latin American Spanish:; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (Spanish:), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, journalist and educator. She read widely in theosophy, became a member of the secular or Third Franciscan order in 1925, but rarely attended mass.
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Chilean poet, 1889–1957
Gabriela Mistral was born in Vicuña, Chile, on 7 April 1889.
She worked as a teacher.
Her collection Desolación appeared in 1922.
She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.
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Did you know?She was the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
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