She represented her country at the League of Nations and the UN, and under Jose Vasconcelos, she participated in revising the Mexican school system.  
She represented her country at the League of Nations and the UN, and under Jose Vasconcelos, she participated in revising the Mexican school system.  She donated the proceeds from one of her collections to help Basque orphans, and her poetry has been translated by Doris Dana and Langston Hughes.  Her works for children include Ternura and Crickets and Frogs, and among her verse collections are Lagar, Desolacion, and Sonetos de la muerte.  FTP, identify this winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize, the first woman and first Latin American to attain that honor.
She represented her country at the League of Nations and the UN, and under Jose Vasconcelos, she participated in revising the Mexican school system.  
Gabriela Mistral  [Lucila Godoy Alcayaga]