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She continued to work as a teacher while composing poetry, and in 1922, became so proficient with both that she was invited to develop a Mexican public school system.<ref>http://www.gabrielamistralfoundation.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=15</ref>  She was proficient enough to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945, the first Latin American to do so, and to have her portrait on the 5,000 peso note.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/gabriela-mistral-9410123</ref><ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/gabriela-mistral/</ref>  She died of cancer on January 10, 1957, in Hempstead, New York.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/mistral-facts.html</ref>

She continued to work as a teacher while composing poetry, and in 1922, became so proficient with both that she was invited to develop a Mexican public school system.<ref>http://www.gabrielamistralfoundation.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=15</ref>  She was proficient enough to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945, the first Latin American to do so, and to have her portrait on the 5,000 peso note.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/gabriela-mistral-9410123</ref><ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/gabriela-mistral/</ref>  She died of cancer on January 10, 1957, in Hempstead, New York.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1945/mistral-facts.html</ref>

==See Also==

==See also==

*[[Pablo Neruda]]

*[[Pablo Neruda]]

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==External Links==

==External links==

*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/gabriela-mistral Extensive Biography] by the Poetry Foundation

*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/gabriela-mistral Extensive Biography] by the Poetry Foundation

*[https://www.poemhunter.com/gabriela-mistral/ Poems] at the Poem Hunter website

*[https://www.poemhunter.com/gabriela-mistral/ Poems] at the Poem Hunter website