Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral (Spanish: Gabriela Mistral, April 7, 1889 - January 10, 1957) was a Chilean writer and poet, formerly known as Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga. Gabriela Mistral is her pen name. Her first and last names are respectively taken from the first and last names of the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio and the French poet Frédéric Mistral (winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature), whom she admired.