Returns to Chile, where she is awarded a life pension by the Chilean government. Travels in the United States and in Europe. Publishes her second book, Ternura (Tenderness), chiefly readings for children. Publishes Lecturas para mujeres (Readings for Women). – Invited by the president of Mexico to serve as a consultant to national programs of literacy and educational reform serves under José Vasconcelos, then the Mexican secretary of Public Education. Largely because of her wide reputation in South American circles, her first book, Desolación, is published in New York, through the advocacy of Professor Federico de Onís, of Columbia University.
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Publishes widely in literary magazines, including fi y-five pieces in the textbook series Libros de Lectura. – Holds various positions as professor and educational administrator, including that of principal in Temuco, where she meets the young Pablo Neruda. Adopts ‘‘Gabriela Mistral’’ as a literary pseudonym. Wins the National Flower Award in a prestigious poetry contest. While in Antofagasta (–), she becomes involved with the Theosophic Lodge and absorbs some ‘‘Asian’’ influences in Los Andes, she writes the ‘‘Sonetos de la muerte’’ (Sonnets of Death). Begins to sign letters with the pseudonym ‘‘Gabriela Mistral.’’ (The choice of these names comes from various sources, including the archangel Gabriel, the warm ‘‘mistral’’ wind of the Mediterranean, and apparently Frédéric Mistral, the Provençal writer who chronicled French rural life.) Professor (teaching primary-level students) and inspector of schools in Traiguén, Los Andes, and Antofagasta. Suicide of Romelio Ureta, for whom Mistral professed a ‘‘profound spiritual affection’’ his death resulted from causes apparently unrelated to their relationship. Largely self-taught, she becomes a teacher in the school at La Compañía and works also at the La Serena school. – Applies for admission to study at the secondary school at La Serena, but is rejected for her ‘‘socialist’’ ideals. Enters public school at Vicuña, where she is unjustly accused of stealing, reprimanded by the instructor, and taunted by fellow students. Her father, an itinerant musician, abandons the family. Through her paternal grandmother, Mistral later claimed Jewish lineage through her mother, Basque, Indian, and mestizo. Parents: Jerónimo Godoy Villanueva and Petronila Alcayaga. Translator’s Remarks, Index of Titles, īorn Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuña, Chile, in the agricultural/mining Equil Valley, on April . Invitación a la lectura de Rainer María Rilke
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