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The author, Gabriela Mistral, is a renowned Chilean poet and writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945 and one of the most relevant voices of the first half of the 20th century.

Author Biography

Gabriela Mistral, pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was born in Vicuña, a small town in northern Chile, on April 7, 1889.

Intellectual, writer, educator, poet and consul, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945 and the National Prize for Literature in 1951.

Self-taught and teacher, at the age of 33 she left Chile to join the educational process of the revolutionary government of Mexico. From then on, due to her work as a consul and her participation in the League of Nations, among other international organizations, she traveled throughout much of Europe and America. He published constantly in newspapers and magazines of the western world. His poetic work includes half a dozen books, while his prose exceeds 700 articles. As a result of his travels and extreme sensitivity, his vision is transmitted in his work through a perspective that envelops a reality that transcends any border or continent.

He died in New York on January 10, 1957.