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Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) – Memoria Chilena; Gabriela Mistral reads eighteen poems from her collected volumes: Ternura, Lagar, and Tala. Recorded at Library of Congress, Hispanic Division on 12 December 1950. Newspaper clippings about Gabriela Mistral in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW; Gabriela Mistral Papers, 1911–1949
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 ...
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.
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.
In 2006, Dana died and left behind what is known as el legado, or the legacy, an archive of Mistral's unpublished manuscripts, letters, taped recordings of poems, and photographs of Dana and Mistral. Many of the letters left in this archive were published by the University of New Mexico in 2018 in the book Gabriela Mistral's Letters to Doris Dana.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). He was the fourth Latin American to be so honored, having been preceded by Chilean poets Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971 and by Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias in 1967.
We need to remember Daniel Enriquez who, as his sister said, “did die in vain” when a deranged gunman shot and killed the 48-year-old Goldman Sachs employee on the Q train as he was headed to ...
Luisa Moreno (August 30, 1907 – November 4, 1992) was a Guatemalan social activist and participant in the United States labor movement.She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in both English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", [1] before returning to Guatemala in 1950.