Gabriela Mistral - Stuttgart, Germany, BW - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

At the so-called 'Santiago de Chile Platz' in Stuttgart, Germany, Baden-Württemberg is a sculpture of Gabriela Mistral located who received the Nobel Award for Literature in 1945.

The life-sized bust consists of bronze. It is put on top of a red stone base. It was placed here in 2014. It was a donation by the consulat of Chile to the City of Stuttgart.

Inscription on the monument:
'LEBEN IST GOLD
UND KORNSÜSS
DER HASS KURZ
DIE LIEBE
GRENZENLOS

GABRIELA MISTRAL
1889 * 1957

CHILENISCHE DICHTERIN
UND NOBELPREISTRÄGERIN
FÜR LITERATUR 1945

SCHENKUNG DER
BOTSCHAFT DER REPUBLIK CHILE
UND DER KUNSTGIESSEREI
FUNDICIÓN EL PROGRESO-CHILE
AN DIE
LANDESHAUPTSTADT STUTTGART

STUTTGART AM 5. MÄRZ 2014'



Wikipedia knows about Gabriela Mistral:
'Gabriela Mistral (7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature.' [source: (visit link) ]

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