Stewart Alsop
American columnist and political analyst
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (Latin American Spanish: [lu’sila go’doj alka’jaga]; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (Spanish: [ga’brjela mis’tral]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order.
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About the Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (Latin American Spanish: [lu’sila go’doj alka’jaga]; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (Spanish: [ga’brjela mis’tral]), 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”. 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. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.
2 Quotes by Gabriela Mistral
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela MistralChilean poet, diplomat and educator
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela MistralChilean poet, diplomat and educator