Nobel laureate
Gabriela Mistral — Nobel Prize in Literature 1945
“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”
Prize motivation
“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”
The Swedish Academy awarded Gabriela Mistral the 1945 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.
Other laureates of the 1940s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).