She donated the proceeds of "Tala" to the relief of Basque children orphaned in the Spanish Civil War.
Her first works for children are translated into English in Crickets and Frogs: A Fable. She donated the proceeds of "Tala" to the relief of Basque children orphaned in the Spanish Civil War. The daughter of a rural schoolmaster, she won a 1914 poetry contest with a verse inspired by unhappy romance Sonnets of Death. FTP, name this Chilean poet, the first Spanish- American woman to win the Nobel prize for Literature.
Her first works for children are translated into English in Crickets and Frogs:
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