Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. The central themes in her poems are love, a mother's love, painful personal memories and sorrow and recovery.

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Gabriela Mistral was born in Vicuña, where she attended primary and secondary school. Her father, Juan Gerónimo Godoy Villanueva, abandoned the family when she was three years old. Aged 14, she started to support herself and her mother by working as a teacher's aide. Her mother, Petronila Alcayaga, died in 1929 - Gabriela dedicated the first section of the book Tala (Tree Fall) to her.

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"La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a dios. " by Gabriela Mistral
ariannyrs (arianny rivero) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:54:42 -0000
"La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a dios. " by Gabriela Mistral
"Há sorrisos que não são de felicidade, mas sim um modo de chorar com bondade." (Gabriela Mistral)
Yerko_herrera (Yerko Herrera) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:28 -0000
"Há sorrisos que não são de felicidade, mas sim um modo de chorar com bondade." (Gabriela Mistral)
@AngeGallagher La Democracia Cristiana usa a Gabriela Mistral...yo no sabìa que era DC xD
A_Rocketeer (Eduardo Hormazàbal) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:27:55 -0000
@AngeGallagher La Democracia Cristiana usa a Gabriela Mistral...yo no sabìa que era DC xD
A buscar el mascarón de proa que tanto quiere mi Sheñoña... mientras La-Là canta poesías de Gabriela Mistral.... jajajaja..
emiliociriza (Emilio Ciriza) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:02:52 -0000
A buscar el mascarón de proa que tanto quiere mi Sheñoña... mientras La-Là canta poesías de Gabriela Mistral.... jajajaja..
Biografía de Gabriela de Mistral: Querido diraioMe dieron de tarea para la casa averuiguán quén fue Gabriela de ... http://bit.ly/1CjcZw
ElMonito (ElMonito) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:27:01 -0000
Biografía de Gabriela de Mistral: Querido diraioMe dieron de tarea para la casa averuiguán quén fue Gabriela de ... http://bit.ly/1CjcZw
"El grito", de Gabriela Mistral http://dijolachanga.blogspot.com/2009/11/el-grito-de-gabriela-mistral.html
dijolachanga (dijo la changa) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:52 -0000
"El grito", de Gabriela Mistral http://dijolachanga.blogspot.com/2009/11/el-grito-de-gabriela-mistral.html

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