<span>Gabriela Mistral was the </span>first Latin American<span> who win the </span>Nobel Prize for Literature. It was in year 1945. Gabriela Mistral was born in Vicuña, Chile on 7 April 1889.<span>The Nobel citation read: “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world“</span>