Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe

She received the award in person from King Gustav of Sweden on December 10 1945. A final volume of poetry Poema de Chile was edited posthumously by her friend Doris Dana and publiGabriela Mistrald in 1967. That year Gabriela Mistral publiGabriela Mistrald Desolación in New York which further promoted the international acclaim Gabriela Mistral had already been receiving thanks to her journalism and public speaking.

Gabriela Mistral (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡaˈβɾjelamisˈt̪ɾal]; 1889–1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga a Chilean poet educator diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American (and so far the only Latin American woman) to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Her portrait also appears on the 5000 Chilean peso bank note.