WRITER

Gabriela Mistral

1889 - 1957

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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 886,876 page views. Her biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). Gabriela Mistral is the 449th most popular writer (down from 444th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Chile (up from 8th 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.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gabriela Mistral ranks 449 out of 7,302Before her are Propertius, Rudaki, Fausto Cercignani, Comte de Lautréamont, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Karl Barth. After her are Susan Sontag, Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Vian, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jack Kerouac, and Jacques Hébert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Gabriela Mistral ranks 18Before her are Arnold J. Toynbee, Vaslav Nijinsky, Manuel II of Portugal, Igor Sikorsky, Idris of Libya, and Gabriel Marcel. After her are Carl von Ossietzky, Louise Mountbatten, Otto Frank, Han van Meegeren, Jacob L. Moreno, and Risto Ryti. Among people deceased in 1957, Gabriela Mistral ranks 18Before her are Arturo Toscanini, Oliver Hardy, Henry van de Velde, Constantin Brâncuși, Gichin Funakoshi, and Gerty Cori. After her are Walther Bothe, Richard E. Byrd, Irving Langmuir, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Joseph McCarthy, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Gabriela Mistral ranks 6 out of 321Before her are Augusto Pinochet (1915), Salvador Allende (1908), Pablo Neruda (1904), Víctor Jara (1932), and Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929). After her are Michelle Bachelet (1951), Sebastián Piñera (1949), Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Manuel Pellegrini (1953), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), and Patricio Aylwin (1918).

Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Gabriela Mistral ranks 3Before her are Pablo Neruda (1904), and Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929). After her are Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Roberto Bolaño (1953), Nicanor Parra (1914), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Antonio Skármeta (1940), José Donoso (1924), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Cristina Calderón (1928), and Alberto Hurtado (1901).