![]() Throughout her early years she was never far from poverty. He abandoned the family before she was three years old, and died, alone since estranged from the family, in 1911. Her father, Juan Gerónimo Godoy Villanueva, was also a schoolteacher. ![]() ![]() She respected her sister greatly, despite the many financial problems that Emelina brought her in later years. Mistral was born in Vicuña, Chile, but was raised in the small Andean village of Montegrande, where she attended a primary school taught by her older sister, Emelina Molina. Her portrait also appears on the 5,000 Chilean peso bank note. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. In 1945, she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". ![]() ![]() Lucila Godoy Alcayaga ( American Spanish: 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral ( Spanish: ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. ![]()
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