A LIFE REMEMBERED

Gabriela Mistral

Poet and educator

1889 — 1957Tumba de Gabriela Mistral, Paiguano
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THE STORY OF A LIFE

A story that lives on.

Gabriela Mistral was born in Vicuña, Chile, on 7 April 1889. She worked as a teacher, and her first book, Desolación, appeared in 1922.

She received the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. She died at Hempstead Hospital in New York on 10 January 1957.

Milestones of a life

  1. 1889

    Birth

    Born in Vicuña on 7 April.

  2. 1945

    Nobel Prize in Literature

    Received the literature prize.

  3. 1957

    Death

    Died on 10 January.

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