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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.
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