Gabriela Mistral: Majestic Legacy of Latin American Poetry (+Christmas)
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Published at: 07/04/2025 08:10 AM
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga , poet, diplomat and teacher, was born in the city of San Isidro de Vicuña, Chile, on April 7, 1889, and was the first Latin American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Daughter of Petronila Alcayaga, dressmaker and teacher Juan Gerónimo Godoy, who abandoned the family when she was just 3 years old. Her half-sister, Emelina, took on the maintenance of the family, working as a teacher.
She is remembered because she wrote Sonnets of Death, a collection of poems with which she won first prize in the Flower Games literature contest. Lucila, nicknamed Gabriela Mistral, pays homage to two of her favorite poets: the Italian Gabriele D'Annunzio and the Frenchman Frédéric Mistral.
In 1922, she left Chile for the first time, invited by the Mexican government, and from that moment on she began her itinerant journey through various countries of America and Europe, to share her thoughts and literary work with the inhabitants of the world.
On December 10, 1945, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, from King Gustav V of Sweden. In 1947, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Mills College of Oakland, California, and in 1951 she was awarded the National Prize for Literature.
He died on January 10, 1957, at the age of 67, in New York City.
Mazo News Team