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4	->''“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.”''
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6	Born with the name of [[OverlyLongName Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga]], Gabriela Mistral (7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957) was a UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}an poetress, humanist, diplomat, and educator. She was the first Latin American to receive the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature in 1945.
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8	Struggling with poverty, Mistral worried about the education in her country, so she worked hard to be accepted as a teacher. Later she became an eminence, not only in her country but also in Mexico. Because of this, she received several doctorates honoris causa.
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10	Having lived through two world wars greatly impacted both her poetry and her humanist endeavors, as she held the view that WarIsHell.
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12	After retiring from educative labor, she became a representative of Chile in other countries, where she worked until her death.
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14	As of TheNewTens, and thanks to the publishing of her extensive epistolary with Doris Dana, it was revealed that Mistral was a lesbian -- Dana being her latest lover. In life, she celebrated Sapphic Circle meetings in her Madrid house. There, she interacted with other lesbian poetresses such as Victorina Durán, Rosa Chacel, Elena Fortún, and Matilde Ras.
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16	Her poetic works mostly concern [[TrueArtIsAngsty death, grief, sorrow, and anguish]]. However, uplifting poems are not rare. All in all, she marked the beginning of {{Modernism}} in Chile and, therefore, UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica. You can read a compilation of her works [[http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/colecciones/BND/00/CH/CH0000129_0004.pdf here]].
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18	!!Mistral's literary works:
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20	* ''Literature/{{Sonnets of Death}}'' (1914), which won her the Chilean Juegos Florales prize. ''Sonetos de la Muerte'' in Spanish.
21	* ''Literature/{{Desolation}}'' (1922): ''Desolación'' in Spanish.
22	* ''Literature/{{Readings for Women}}'' (1923): ''Lecturas para Mujeres'' in Spanish.
23	* ''Ternura: canciones de niños'' (1924)
24	* ''Literature/{{Tala}}'' (1938): Commonly translated as ''Harvesting'', however, the title alludes to the felling of trees rather than the picking of crops.
25	* ''Literature/{{Lagar}}'' (1954): Untranslatable title.
26	* ''Literature/{{Poem of Chile}}'' (1967): ''Poema de Chile'' in Spanish.
27	* ''Literature/{{Lagar II}}'' (1992): Published posthumously.
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30	!!Tropes found across her works:
31	* SmallReferencePools: Other than Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez and Creator/PabloNeruda, she's the only ever Latin American writer in non-Spanish-speaking pop culture.

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