World Class Poetry Series – Gabriela Mistral – Blog Post #334 by Asrar Qureshi
Dear Colleagues! This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #334 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Lucila Godoy Alcayaga ( American Spanish: [luˈsila ɣ oˈðoj alkaˈ ʝ a ɣ a] ; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral ( Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjela misˈtɾal] ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat , educator and humanist . In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature , “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”. Some central themes in her poems are nature, bet...