Nobel laureate: Gabriela Mistral
Born: 1889-04-07, Vicuña, Chile
Died: 1957-01-10, Hempstead, NY, USA
Gender: female
Prizes:
year: 1945
category: literature
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motivation: "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"