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In 1922 her first book Desolacion
was released in New York. This
book centered around themes of
motherhood, humanity, religion
and children, and began to gain her
an international reputation. Her
her entire life. second book, Ternura, followed in
1924. While her works were being
Around this time, an early work published, her career in Chile’s
inspired by this tragedy, Sonnets education system was moving
on Death, won a first prize in the rapidly forward, despite her lack of
prestigious Santaigo contest Juegos a formal education. Her reputation
Florales. as a poet, which led to her published
