Gabriela Mistral

Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known as Gabriela Mistral, was born on 7 April 1889 in Vicuña, in the Elqui valley; her father, a schoolteacher, left the family. A teaching assistant from adolescence at La Compañía Baja, she then taught throughout the country, from Traiguén to Punta Arenas. In 1922, José Vasconcelos called her to Mexico to work on educational reform; consul from 1932, she received the Nobel Prize in 1945, the first awarded to Latin American letters. She died on 10 January 1957 in Hempstead, near New York.

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