Whose Birthday Is It? April 7, 2016

Gabriela Mistral (1889)

Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, Mistral was aChilean poet who combined writing with acareer as a cultural minister, diplomat, andprofessor. She established her reputation as apoet in 1914, when she won a prize for“Sonetos de la Muerte”—”Sonnets of Death.”Her passionate lyrics, with love of children andof the downtrodden as principal themes, are collected in manyvolumes. In 1945, Mistral became the first Latin American to behonored in what way? More…