Biblioteca Nacional de Chile（智利国家图书馆），约 1922 年 · CC0 1.0。
7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957
Gabriela Mistral, originally Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
Gabriela Mistral · 智利
Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat of the first half of the 20th century, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Latin American writer to receive the prize.
Born on 7 April 1889 in Vicuña, Chile, she began teaching at 15 and later became an important participant in educational reform in Chile and Mexico; she became famous with *Sonnets of Death* in 1914, published *Desolation* in 1922, followed by *Tenderness* (1924), *Tala* (1938), *Winepress* (1954), and others; she served as Chile's consul in Naples, Madrid, Lisbon, and elsewhere, and took part in League of Nations cultural work; she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945; she died on 10 January 1957 in Hempstead, New York State, United States.
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Places in their life
Birthplace Vicuña (Elqui Valley, northern Chile); places of activity Santiago and the Mexican education system; burial place Montegrande (Elqui Valley) — tourism sources state that her tomb is in that town.
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Cultural significance
Known for lyric poetry on motherhood, childhood, mourning, and Latin American identity, she was also a pioneer of women's education and public cultural work in Latin America; her portrait appears on the Chilean 5,000-peso banknote.