Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. The central themes in her poems are love, a mother's love, painful personal memories and sorrow and recovery.

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April 7 - 1889 - January 10 - 1957 - Pseudonym - Chile - Poet - Feminist - Latin America - Nobel Prize for Literature - 1945

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