![]() ![]() "It is to render homage to the riches of Spanish American literature that we address ourselves today especially to its queen, the poet of DesolaciĆ³n, who has become the great singer of mercy and motherhood," concludes the Nobel Prize citation read by Hjalmar Gullberg at the Nobel ceremony. ![]() One of the best-known Latin American poets of her time, Gabriela-as she was admiringly called all over the Hispanic world-embodied in her person, as much as in her works, the cultural values and traditions of a continent that had not been recognized until then with the most prestigious international literary prize. ![]() Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature as such, she will always be seen as a representative figure in the cultural history of the continent. ![]()
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