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Gabriela Mistral

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Profession
Poet
Died
Jan 10, 1957
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Chile
About
Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga and better known by her pen name of Gabriela Mistral, this Chilean poet was the 1945 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. She also received the 1951 Chilean National Prize for Literature, and her Sonetos de la Muerte poetry collection won the 1914 Juegos Florales literary contest.
Family
The daughter of teacher Juan Geronimo Godoy Villanueva and seamstress Petronila Alcayaga, she was born in Vicuna, Chile, and raised in Montegrande. Her elder sister, Emelina Molina, was her first teacher.

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