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Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral, born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was a Chilean poet, educator and diplomat. In 1945 she became the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her poetry, including the collections Desolación and Tala, dealt with love, motherhood, grief and Latin American identity, and she worked on educational reform in Mexico and as a Chilean consul abroad.
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