Page 23 - HP3B 004 Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral

Italy, Spain, France, Portugal and the

U.S. While working in Madrid she

again had interactions with Pablo

Neruda, whose work she always

supported and encouraged.

In 1938 a major volume of poetry

called Tala was released in Buenos to education and to children, which

Aires, Argentina, and with the only helped win people’s respect and

money received from the sales admiration of her.

of this book, Mistral helped the

children who were orphaned during Sadly, in 1943, her beloved teenage

Spain’s civil war. Throughout her life nephew Juan Miguel Godoy killed

Mistral always remained dedicated himself, and this event, as well as