Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet(1889-1957)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, or, more simply, Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga
• Known as: Gabriela Mistral
• Birth: April 7, 1889, Vicuña, Chile
• Death: January 10, 1957, Hempstead, New York, USA
• Language: Spanish
• Who she was: Chilean poet, educator, and humanist known for Sonnets of Death, Despair, Tenderness, and Harvesting.Nobel Prize in Literature (1945)
• Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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