Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957)
Author of Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition
About the Author
Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga born in Chile in 1889. She is a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. In 1904 Mistral published some early poems, such as Ensoñaciones ("Dreams"), show more Carta Íntima ("Intimate Letter") and Junto al Mar, in the local newspaper El Coquimbo. An important moment of formal recognition came on December 22, 1914, when Mistral was awarded first prize in a national literary contest Juegos Florales in Santiago(the capital of Chile), with the work Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death). In 1922 she published Desolación in New York, which further promoted her international acclaim. A year later she published Lecturas para Mujeres (Readings for Women), a text in prose and verse that celebrates Latin America from the Americanist perspective. The poet's second major volume of poetry, Tala, appeared in 1938, published in Buenos Aires with the help of longtime friend and correspondent Victoria Ocampo. This volume includes many poems celebrating the customs and folklore of Latin America. During the last years of her life she made her home in the town of Roslyn, New York; in early January 1957 she transferred to Hempstead, New York, where she died from pancreatic cancer on January 10, 1957, aged 67. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Image credit: Library of Congress. digital ID npcc.25733
Series
Works by Gabriela Mistral
Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition (2003) 96 copies, 2 reviews
En verso y prosa: Antologia / In Verse and Prose: An Anthology (Real Academia Espanola) (Spanish Edition) (2010) 76 copies, 2 reviews
Desolacion Ternura/ Tala/ Lagar (Sepan Cuantos... 250) (Spanish Edition) (1999) — Author — 21 copies
Rondas, poemas y jugarretas /Rounds, Poems and Pranks (Serie Morada) (Spanish Edition) (2015) 19 copies
La Bella Durmiente Del Bosque (Sleeping Beauty) Gabriela Mistral Version. Spanish HARDCOVER (2014) 16 copies, 1 review
Las renegadas. Antología / The Renegades: Anthology (Poesia) (Spanish Edition) (2014) 16 copies, 2 reviews
Blanca Nieves En La Casa De Los Enanos (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) Gabriela Mistral Version (2014) 15 copies
Gabriela Mistral Íntima 6 copies
gabriela 4 copies
Toda culpa es un misterio: Antología mística y religiosa de Gabriela Mistral (Spanish Edition) (2020) 4 copies
Poesias escolhidas 3 copies
Poemas esenciales 2 copies
Prosa de Gabriela Mistral: materias / Gabriela Mistral ; selección y prologo Alfonso Calderon 2 copies
Gabriela Mistral en breve 1 copy
Tala/ Lagar 1 copy
Recados: contando a Chile 1 copy
Vzkazy 1 copy
Gabriela Mistral papers 1 copy
Criatura Regional 1 copy
Poemas De Las Casas 1 copy
Primero la tierra 1 copy
Gabriela Intima y popular 1 copy
Poèmes choisis. p, rombaldi, 1967, in-8, couv. cart. blanche ill. en coul. par picasso, 235 pp. (1967) 1 copy
The Dancer 1 copy
Chile en poesía 1 copy
Poèmes choisis 1 copy
Pasión de leer 1 copy
Poesía De Siempre 1 copy
Prosa y Poesia 1 copy
El libro de la patagonia 1 copy
Páginas en Prosa 1 copy
Cartas a Lydia Cabrera: Correspondencia inedita de Gabriela Mistral y Teresa de la Parra (Serie Documentos) (Spanish Edition) (1988) 1 copy
Magisterio y Nino 1 copy
Su_RUT? 01/02 1 copy
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 499 copies, 2 reviews
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994) — Contributor — 386 copies, 5 reviews
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 162 copies, 1 review
Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contributor — 114 copies, 3 reviews
These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women (2000) — Contributor — 45 copies, 1 review
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Contributor — 40 copies, 1 review
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo XX (1997) — Contributor — 23 copies
The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present (2024) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Green Continent: A Comprehensive View of Latin America by Its Leading Writers (1944) — Contributor — 14 copies
Noble Prize Library: Roger Martin du Gard, Gabriela Mistral, Boris Pasternak — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Mistral, Gabriela
- Legal name
- Alcayaga, Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy
Alcayaga, Lucila Godoy - Other names
- Mistral, Gabriela
- Birthdate
- 1889-04-07
- Date of death
- 1957-01-10
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- poet
professor
teacher
culture minister
diplomat
journalist - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1943)
- Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize ( [1945])
National Prize for Literature Chile (1951)
First Latin American to win the Nobel Prize - Short biography
- Gabriela Mistral was the pen name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, born in Vicuña, Chile. She attended the primary school taught by an older sister. By age 15, she was supporting herself and her mother by working as a teacher's aide in a seaside town near La Serena. In 1914, she won first prize in a national literary contest with Los Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death). In 1921, she was named director of Liceo de Niñas #6 in Santiago. The following year, she accepted an invitation to work in Mexico on a plan to reform the country's libraries and schools and start a national education system. She returned to Chile in 1925 and retired from teaching. She was a visiting professor at Barnard College in New York City in 1930–1931, and worked briefly at Middlebury College and Vassar College, as well as at the University of Puerto Rico. She also served as a Chilean consul from 1932 until her death.
- Nationality
- Chile
- Birthplace
- Vicuña, Chile
- Places of residence
- Montegrande, Chile
La Serena, Chile
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Roslyn, New York, USA - Place of death
- Hempstead, New York, USA
- Burial location
- Chile Cemetery
- Map Location
- Chile
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El pensador de Rodin
Con el mentón caído sobre la mano ruda,
el Pensador se acuerda que es carne de la huesa,
carne fatal, delante del destino desnuda,
carne que odia la muerte, y tembló de belleza.
Y tembló de amor, toda su primavera ardiente,
y ahora, al otoño, anégase de verdad y tristeza.
El "de morir tenemos" pasa sobre su frente,
en todo agudo bronce, cuando la noche empieza.
Y en la angustia, sus músculos se hienden, sufridores.
Cada surco en la carne se llena de terrores.
Se hiende, show more como la hoja de otoño, al Señor fuerte
que le llama en los bronces... Y no hay árbol torcido
de sol en la llanura, ni león de flanco herido,
crispados como este hombre que medita en la muerte. show less
Con el mentón caído sobre la mano ruda,
el Pensador se acuerda que es carne de la huesa,
carne fatal, delante del destino desnuda,
carne que odia la muerte, y tembló de belleza.
Y tembló de amor, toda su primavera ardiente,
y ahora, al otoño, anégase de verdad y tristeza.
El "de morir tenemos" pasa sobre su frente,
en todo agudo bronce, cuando la noche empieza.
Y en la angustia, sus músculos se hienden, sufridores.
Cada surco en la carne se llena de terrores.
Se hiende, show more como la hoja de otoño, al Señor fuerte
que le llama en los bronces... Y no hay árbol torcido
de sol en la llanura, ni león de flanco herido,
crispados como este hombre que medita en la muerte. show less
Locas Mujeres de Bordelibre Ediciones se distancia de las anteriores publicaciones porque además de entregar la serie original, incorpora una selección de inéditos que logran ofrecer un panorama revelador de la continuidad y el quiebre emprendido desde Lagar I. Gabriela Mistral es una gigante que captura todos los sentidos. …arde recta y arde sin mirada aunque sea torbellino. En el acto de liberación se manifiesta la locura; (…) la conciencia descentrada le permite no vacilar en la show more apropiación de múltiples identidades. Toma y deja, va y viene, es una fórmula que se repite en los poemas. La identidad no puede ser definitiva, no es finalidad, es más bien una excusa para pensarse en las reelaboraciones de las múltiples y posibles gabrielas.
Paula Ceballos Huerta show less
Paula Ceballos Huerta show less
Há alguns anos li um livro de poemas da Gabriela Mistral e não me impressionei, a achei muito carola. Acontece que li o livro errado, essa coletânea da Pinard me abriu os olhos para a grande poeta de múltiplas facetas que ela é.
While I am not a mother (and don't have much maternal feeling), I still found these poems moving. Mistral's poems in this collection focused mostly on the pregnancy & infant stages of motherhood, such as this one (Eternal Grief):
"If he suffers within me I grow pale; grief overtakes me
at his hidden pressure, and I could die from a single
motion of this one I can not see.
But do not think that only while I carry him, will he be
entangled within me. When he shall roam free on the
highways, even show more though he is far away from me, the wind that
lashes him will tear at my flesh, and his cry will be in my
throat, too. My grief and my smile begin in your face, my
son." show less
"If he suffers within me I grow pale; grief overtakes me
at his hidden pressure, and I could die from a single
motion of this one I can not see.
But do not think that only while I carry him, will he be
entangled within me. When he shall roam free on the
highways, even show more though he is far away from me, the wind that
lashes him will tear at my flesh, and his cry will be in my
throat, too. My grief and my smile begin in your face, my
son." show less
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