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Died. Gabriela Mistral (real name: Lucila Godoy Alcayaga), 67, tall, straight-haired Chilean poet and schoolteacher who won adulation throughout Latin America for her Sonnets of Death (1914), written after the suicide of a lover, was awarded the permanent post of roving consul (her assignment: to live where she pleased) by the grateful Chilean government, in 1945 received the Nobel Prize for poetry; of cancer; in Hempstead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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