Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is the literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral was a renowned poet, educator, diplomat, and public intellectual. During her career, she published extensively, and her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945—the first time for a Latin American writer. In 1922, she was invited by José Vasconcelos and the revolutionary government of Mexico to participate in their process of educational reform. After that, she never returned to Chile for more than a few weeks at a time. Mistral lived, wrote, and worked in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Puerto Rico, and the United States.