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Gabriel Mistral, recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Vicuna, Chile to Petronila Alcayaga and Jeronimo Villanueva. Her original name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Her father left the family when she was three years old. She was educated at the Santiago Normal School. She worked for several years as a teacher before become the principal of Santiago High School in 1921.
Her reputation as a poet was established with her first publication, SONETOS DE LA MUERTE (SONNETS OF DEATH), which was published in 1914. She was the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Gabriela Mistral died of cancer in 1957.
CHRONOLOGY
1889 She was born in Vicuna, Chile.
1909 Her lover, Romelio Ureta, committed suicide.
1914 SONETOS DE LA MUERTE (SONNETS OF DEATH)
1921 She became the principal of Santiago High School.
1922 DESOLACION (DESOLATION)
1923 She was awarded the title "Teacher of the Nation."
1924 TERNURA (TENDERNESS); LECTURAS PARA MUJERES
1925 She worked for the League for Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations.
1930 She was visiting professor at Barnard College in New York.
1933 She entered the Chilean Foreign Service.
1938 TALA
1945 She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1950 POEMAS DE LA MADRE
1954 LAGAR (THE WINE PRESS)
1957 EPISTOLARIO; RECADOS: CONTANDO A CHILE; SELECTED POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL; She died of cancer. (January 10)
1958 POESIAS COMPLETAS; GABRIELA MISTRAL EPISTOLARIO
1965 PAGINAS EN PROSA; MOTIVOS DE SAN FRANCISCO
1967 POEMA DE CHILE
1971 SELECTED POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL
1976 POESIAS COMPLETAS
1978 RECADOS PARA AMERICA; PROSA RELIGIOSA DE GABRIELA MISTRAL; GABRIALA PIENSA EN...; GABRIALA ANDA POR EL MUNDO; CARTAS DE AMOR DE G.M.
1979 MAGISRERIO Y NINO; GRANDEZA DE LOS OFICIOS; ELOGIO DE LAS COSAS DE LA TIERRA; CROQUIS MEXICANOS
1983 REINO
1988 CARTAS A LYDIA CABRERA; EPISTOLARIO DE GABRIELA MISTRAL Y EDUARDO BARRIOS
1989 GABRIELA MISTRAL Y JOAQUIN GARCIA MONGE
1991 LAGAR II; TAN DE USTED
1992 GABRIELA MISTRAL EN LA VOZ DE ELQUI
1993 EN BATALLAN DE SENCILLEZ
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