REDISCOVERING Gabriela Mistral

From: Americas | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Montesinos, Elisa | Copyright information

A new trove of the poet's papers promises to give researchers fresh insights into Latin America's first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature

After remaining stashed away in the United States for half a century, newly uncovered documents of the poet Gabriela Mistral-120 boxes of them-have now reached their final destination in Chile, where they will one day be made available to readers. Her correspondence with such intellectuals and political figures as Jacques Maritain, Thomas Ma...

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