1889 - 1957
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (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 humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, "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". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriela Mistral has received more than 660,396 page views. Her biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Gabriela Mistral is the 525th most popular writer (down from 478th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Chile 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, Gabriela Mistral ranks 525 out of 5,794. Before her are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Ágota Kristóf, René Guénon, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Ismail Kadare. After her are Grazia Deledda, Paul Claudel, Georges Perec, Bernard Gui, Alfred Jarry, and Erik Axel Karlfeldt.
1749 - 1838
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 519
620 BC - 560 BC
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 520
1935 - 2011
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 521
1886 - 1951
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 522
1863 - 1938
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 523
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 524
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 525
1871 - 1936
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 526
1868 - 1955
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 527
1936 - 1982
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 528
1261 - 1331
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 529
1873 - 1907
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 530
1864 - 1931
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 531
Among people born in 1889, Gabriela Mistral ranks 19. Before her are Igor Sikorsky, Idris of Libya, Manuel II of Portugal, Carl von Ossietzky, Gabriel Marcel, and Otto Frank. After her are Paul Karrer, Louise Mountbatten, Jacob L. Moreno, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Victor Fleming, and Pitirim Sorokin. Among people deceased in 1957, Gabriela Mistral ranks 18. Before her are Haakon VII of Norway, Johannes Stark, Henry van de Velde, Gichin Funakoshi, Arturo Toscanini, and Walther Bothe. After her are Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Gerty Cori, František Kupka, Alfred Döblin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Irving Langmuir.
1889 - 1972
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 13
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 14
1889 - 1932
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 15
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 16
1889 - 1973
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 17
1889 - 1980
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 18
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 19
1889 - 1971
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 20
1889 - 1965
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 21
1889 - 1974
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 22
1889 - 1968
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 23
1889 - 1949
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 24
1889 - 1968
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 25
1872 - 1957
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 12
1874 - 1957
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 13
1863 - 1957
HPI: 76.62
Rank: 14
1868 - 1957
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 15
1867 - 1957
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 16
1891 - 1957
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 17
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 18
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 19
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 20
1871 - 1957
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 21
1878 - 1957
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 22
1867 - 1957
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 23
1881 - 1957
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 24
Among people born in Chile, Gabriela Mistral ranks 7 out of 225. Before her are Pablo Neruda (1904), Augusto Pinochet (1915), Salvador Allende (1908), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929), Michelle Bachelet (1951), and Víctor Jara (1932). After her are Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Sebastián Piñera (1949), Claudio Arrau (1903), Violeta Parra (1917), and Patricio Aylwin (1918).
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 1
1915 - 2006
HPI: 83.82
Rank: 2
1908 - 1973
HPI: 82.65
Rank: 3
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 4
1951 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 5
1932 - 1973
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 6
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 7
1949 - 2020
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 8
1778 - 1842
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 10
1903 - 1991
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 11
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 12
1918 - 2016
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 13
Among writers born in Chile, Gabriela Mistral ranks 3. Before her are Pablo Neruda (1904) and Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929). After her are Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Roberto Bolaño (1953), Nicanor Parra (1914), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Francisco Coloane (1910), José Donoso (1924), and Alberto Hurtado (1901).
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 1
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 2
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 3
1949 - 2020
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 4
1953 - 2003
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 5
1914 - 2018
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 8
1893 - 1948
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 9
1910 - 2002
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 10
1924 - 1996
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 11
1901 - 1952
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 12