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Apr 3, 2024 · Gabriela Mistral (born April 7, 1889, Vicuña, Chile—died January 10, 1957, Hempstead, New York, U.S.) was a Chilean poet, who in 1945 became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of Spanish, Basque, and Indian descent, Mistral grew up in a village of northern Chile and became a schoolteacher at age 15, advancing ...
My Mountains - In mountains I grew up, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. In mountains I grew up, three dozen peaks around me. I seem never, never, though I hear my steps departing, to have lost them, not in the day, not in the starlit night, and though in pools I see myself with snowy hair, I never left them, they never left me like a child forsaken.
Mar 1, 2022 · Gabriela Mistral Biography. Gabriela Mistral was born April 7, 1889 in Vicuña, Chile. Her given name at birth was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. She grew up in a small rural village with her mother and sister. At the age of 11, Mistral left her home to attend school back in Vicuña. The loss of her beloved village was difficult, and she experienced ...
In the middle of the road, I stand. between rivers that won’t let me go, and the circle keeps closing. and I’m caught in the wheel. The riverside people tell me. of the drowned woman sunk in grasses. and her gaze tells her story, and I graft the tales into my open hands. To the thumb come stories of animals,
Apr 24, 2020 · Here, we’ll take a concise look at the poetry of Gabriela Mistral — an overview of her published works and analysis of major themes. She was cited “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.”. Born in Vicuña, Chile, Mistral had ...
Come to me as the shadows grow long, come, life of my life, if you know the song. you used to know, if you know my name. I and the song are still the same. Beyond time or place I keep the faith. Follow a path or follow no path, don’t fear the night or the rainy wind. call me to come to you, now at the end,
Apr 1, 2008 · Gabriela Mistral, Randall Couch (Translation) 3.90. 487 ratings80 reviews. A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American ...
