Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral , 1889-1957, Chilean poet whose original name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. She was a teacher in and director of rural schools in Chile before she attained wider acclaim as an educator. Mistral was noted for her revision of the Mexican school system under José Vasconcelos . Subsequently, she served as Chilean consul in various European and Latin American cities and represented her country at the League of Nations and the United Nations. The mystery of childbearing, the sorrow of a tragic love, and a burning desire for justice are recurrent themes of her fluent and lyric verse. The early Sonetos de la muerte [ sonnets of death ] (1915) is considered one of her finest achievements. Desolación (1922), Tala (1938), and Lagar (1954) are three of her major volumes. Selected Poems, translated by Langston Hughes, was published in 1957. In 1945, Mistral received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Latin American to be so honored.
Bibliography: See studies by M. C. Preston (1964) and M. C. Taylor (1968).
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Para Celebrar a Gabriela Mistral. (premio de Chile a escritores de América y Europa)(TT: To Celebrate Gabriela Mistral) (TA: Chile's award to Latin American and European writers)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 6/8/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Recordemos la relacin de esa imagen con Gabriela Mistral. En el nmero 1 del tomo 2 de la revista...Rivera ilustr El poema de la madre de Gabriela Mistral. Ese nmero de El maestro documenta...Seoritas, y se le impone el nombre de Gabriela Mistral. En marzo del ao siguiente, invitada...
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LITERATURE: REDISCOVERING GABRIELA MISTRAL, POET AND NOBELIST
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 2/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957...distinction that no other Latin American woman writer has...director of the Gabriela Mistral Museum, Rodrigo...with the wishes of Gabriela Mistral, and the contributions...
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TRIBUTE CONCERT CELEBRATES CHILEAN POET GABRIELA MISTRAL
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/15/2006; 557 words
; ...celebration of the 60th anniversary of Gabriela Mistral's Nobel Prize in literature, seven Chicago Latin American composers will present musical works...considered one of the giants of Latin American literature, since her work is still...
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A Queer Mother for the Nation: the State and Gabriela Mistral.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Sexuality; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...analysis of the myth and person of Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet who in 1945 became the first Latin American awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...in twentieth-century notions of Latin American citizenship and nationhood. Chapter...
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Women's work.(Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral)(Book review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...MUJERES POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL translated by RANDALL...encountered the work of Gabriela Mistral in books given to...world, the first Latin American winner of the Nobel...Lucila Godoy" to "Gabriela Mistral," a name rich in...
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Voices of Chile: Gabriela Mistral and Isabel Allende.
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Among them are Gabriela Mistral and Isabel Allende...Daughter of Democracy' Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy...changed her name to Gabriela Mistral to honor two of her...Literature. As the first Latin American recipient, she accepted...
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REDISCOVERING Gabriela Mistral
Magazine article from: Americas; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...uncovered documents of the poet Gabriela Mistral-120 boxes of them-have...led her to become the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize...biographers, in Los das y los aos de Gabriela Mistral (Mexico, 1973). The fairy...
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A look back: one hundred years ago.(remembering Gabriela Mistral )(Brief Article)(Biography)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/1/2005; 518 words
; Chilean Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), born Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, published her first texts in 1905 at the...diplomat, and poet. In 1945 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first for a Latin American woman.
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Poetry and the realm of the public intellectual; the alternative destinies of Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 491 words
; ...of the public intellectual; the alternative destinies of Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos. Pena, Karen...addressed in the work of three important 20th-century Latin American women poets. They sought to live public lives and write...
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Gabriela Mistral: inéditos a granel: la noticia ha provocado revuelo y júbilo en Chile: la estadunidense Doris Atkins, albacea del legado de Gabriela Mistral, ha decidido entregarlo a la Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos de ese país. Lo constituyen miles de páginas entre las que abundan poemas inéditos.
Magazine article from: Proceso; 7/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...cartas y escritos literarios de Gabriela Mistral, quien la había nombrado...menos 300 poemas inéditos de Gabriela Mistral, así como 500 cartas que...correspondencia que sostuvieron Alfonso Reyes y Gabriela Mistral (Tan de usted, Hachett, 1990...
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Gabriela Mistral
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945. Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu...
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Poets Laureate and Prizes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...José Echegaray/ Frédéric Mistral 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz 1906 Giosuè Carducci...x2013;3 No awards 1944 Johannes V. Jensen 1945 Gabriela Mistral 1946 Herman Hesse 1947 André Gide 1948 T...
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Nobel Prizes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Rayleigh Ivan P. Pavlov Frédéric Mistral José Echegaray 1905 Baroness Bertha von Suttner...Alexander Fleming E. B. Chain Sir Howard W. Florey Gabriela Mistral 1946 J. R. Mott Emily G. Balch J. B. Sumner J...
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Langston Hughes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Mulatto, Simply Heavenly, and Tambourines to Glory. He translated Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish poet, and Gabriela Mistral, the Latin American Nobel laureate poet, and wrote two long autobiographical works. As a newspaper columnist...
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José Vasconcelos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...carrying out an extensive program of publication, and importing educators such as Pedro Henriquez Ure ñ a and Gabriela Mistral. In 1925 he published La raza c ó smica (The Cosmic Race), followed by Indologia (Indology) in 1926...
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