Efeméride January 10, 1957: the Renowned Chilean Poet and Nobel Prize Winner Gabriela Mistral Died

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On January 10, 1957, Gabriela Mistral died in a hospital near New York, one of the greatest figures in Chile’s cultural history and the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lucila Godoy Lucila’s life by María Godoy Alcayaga was born in Vicuña in 1889. At the age of 15, she began to work as an assistant in a rural school in the area of La Serena, a stage in which her first writings appeared in the local press, sig…