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continued to be published, and he is Mistral was born in the Coquimbo

immortally remembered as one of region of Chile into a family of

the 20th century’s greatest poets. educators. She and her family were

poor, and while still a teenager

Gabriela Mistral she helped support her family

by working as a teacher’s aide.

Gabriela Mistral, who lived from While still a teenager she began to

April 7 1889 to January 10, 1957, publish her early poems in the local

was a Chilean poet, diplomat and newspaper, and also met her first

educator. She has the honor of being love, Romelio Ureta, who tragically

the first Latin American author to committed suicide a few years later.

receive the Nobel Prize in Literature Her work began to be influenced by

in 1945. this sense of heartbreak and loss,

which would be present throughout