A look back: one hundred years ago.(remembering Gabriela Mistral )(Brief Article)(Biography)

From: World Literature Today | Date: September 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Chilean Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), born Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, published her first texts in 1905 at the age of sixteen in the newspapers La Voz de Elqui and Diario Radical de Coquimbo. At the time she was working as a teacher's aide ...

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