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the tragedies happening through Prize in Literature. In 1947 she was

World War 2 and the later Cold War, given an honorary doctorate degree

influenced her last volume of poetry from Mills College in Oakland,

published in her lifetime, called California, although her formal

Lagar. A final volume of her poetry, education had been much less.

called Poema de Chile, was edited However, she never let that impede

posthumously by her American the successes she achieved in life.

friend Doris Dana and published in In 1951 she was also awarded the

1957. National Literature Prize in Chile.

In 1945, the year World War 2 came In the 1950s Mistral moved to

to an end, Mistral became the first New York. Her health began to

Latin American, and only the fifth deteriorate, which forced her to

woman, to be awarded the Nobel slow down her much loved travels.