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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945

"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"
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
(pen-name of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga)
Chile
b. 1889
d. 1957
 
 
 
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