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Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death) is a work by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, first published in 1914. She used a nom de plume as she feared that she may have lost her job as a teacher. [1] The work was awarded first prize in the Juegos Florales, a national literary contest.
While little is known about her first love, his death influenced Mistral's poems, which often explored themes of death, despair, and possibly a resentment towards God. Her collection of poems titled Desolación , inspired by the loss of her first love and later the death of a beloved nephew, impacted many others.
The 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) "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." [1] [2] She is the fifth female and first Latin American recipient of the literature prize. [3 ...
After the poet's death in January 1957, Doris Dana translated and edited one bilingual edition of the Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral from Spanish to English. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2006, Dana died and left behind what is known as el legado , or the legacy, an archive of Mistral's unpublished manuscripts, letters, taped recordings of poems, and ...
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Marian Osborne, Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom [10] George A. MacKenzie, In that New World Which is the Old [10] Laura E. McCulley, Mary Magdalene and Other Poems, 50 poems; her first book of poetry [10] Beatrice Redpath, Drawn Shutters, her first book [10] Lloyd Roberts, England Over Seas [10]
He would also follow in Mistral’s footsteps when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, [2] 26 years after Mistral herself had won the highest honor in literature in 1945. [3] In contrast to this tenuous link, the relationship between Huidobro, De Rokha and Neruda was one of the most persistent rivalries in Chilean cultural history.
The Chilean poetess Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature, took the first name of her pseudonym, Gabriela Mistral, in his honour. The play Tamara is based on his meeting with the painter Tamara de Lempicka. Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent, is based on D'Annunzio's novel.