Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral

Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (Latin American Spanish: [luˈsila ɣoˈðoj alkaˈʝaɣa]; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjela misˈtɾal]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriela Mistral has received more than 830,051 page views. Her biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 98 in 2019). Gabriela Mistral is the 445th most popular writer (up from 525th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Chile (down from 7th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Chilean Writer.

Gabriela Mistral is most famous for being the first Latin American and Chilean woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. She was also the first Latin American woman to become a diplomat.