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Gabriela Mistral

1889 – 1957 · Chile · Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1945

First Latin American to win the literature Nobel; teacher and diplomat.

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Who shaped Gabriela Mistral, and who they shaped

Inherited from2

  • José Martí

    1853 – 1895 · Literature, Philosophy

    Martí's Nuestra América is the continental idea her pedagogy carried.

  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

    1648 – 1695 · Literature, Philosophy

    Sor Juana's defence of women's learning is the colonial precedent Mistral's pedagogy claims.

Passed the work to1

  • Pablo Neruda

    1904 – 1973 · Literature

    Mistral taught the schoolboy Neruda and gave him Russian novels to read.

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    Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Literature, 1945

    The Nobel Foundation · Primary source

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