For 10 points, identify this first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, a Chilean poet who wrote Desolation and Sonnets of Death.
In one work by this author, the author recounts the sadness surrounding her mother's death and longs for her to come back from the dead to provide her with a maternal feeling while another work continually references the color gold to describe two souls interacting in Heaven. Those two poems, "Lapida Filial" and "Paraiso" are contained in the poetry collection Tala, while other poetry collections include a poem detailing the suicide of the author's former lover which stresses the theme of suffering and another which sees the speaker telling its addressee "From the frozen crypt where men put you away, I'll lower you to the humble, sunny ground.". For 10 points, identify this first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, a Chilean poet who wrote Desolation and Sonnets of Death.
In one work by this author, the author recounts the sadness surrounding her mother's death and longs for her to come back from the dead to provide her with a maternal feeling while another work continually references the color gold to describe two souls interacting in Heaven.
Gabriela {Mistral}