Botoncito gabriela mistral biography
The poem entitled "Botoncito" is about the tiny button that the young speaker had near her heart, a button that grew and grew and finally drfited away and.
Born on April 7, , in Vicuna, Chile · lived in poverty with family, her dad left them when she was 3 y.o · work two jobs usually: seamstress and....
Gabriela Mistral
Chilean author and diplomat (1889–1957)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Godoy and the second or maternal family name is Alcayaga.
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (Latin American Spanish:[luˈsilaɣoˈðojalkaˈʝaɣa]; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonymGabriela Mistral (Spanish:[ɡaˈβɾjelamisˈtɾal]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic.
She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order.[1] She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "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".[2] Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences.
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