She was a village schoolteacher, and donated the proceeds of her work Tala to the relief of Basque children orphaned in the Spanish Civil War.
This woman's works for children are translated into English in Crickets and Frogs: A Fable. She was a village schoolteacher, and donated the proceeds of her work Tala to the relief of Basque children orphaned in the Spanish Civil War. Scarred by an affair with a railway employee who committed suicide, her works include Desolaci?, Ternura, and Sonetos de la muerte.  FTP, name this author, born Lucila Godoy Y Alcayaga, the 1945 Nobel Prize winner in Literature from Chile.
This woman's works for children are translated into English in Crickets and Frogs:
Gabriela Mistral