Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral

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 597,955 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.