Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral

Common themes in Mistral's work include:

When we think of the giants of Latin American literature, names like Pablo Neruda or Jorge Luis Borges often spring to mind first. But standing tall among them—often with a more quiet, burning intensity—is the first Latin American woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature: gabriela mistral

(The Winepress, 1954)