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NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral, enroute to Chile arrives at La Guardia AIrport, New York 10 March 1946, when returning from London where she received the Litterature Nobel Award. Gabriela Mistral was also educationalist and diplomat. She was born Lucila Godoy De Alcayaga in 1889 and died in 1957. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES:  Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral, enroute to Chile arrives at La Guardia AIrport, New York 10 March 1946, when returning from London where she received the Litterature Nobel Award. Gabriela Mistral was also educationalist and diplomat. She was born Lucila Godoy De Alcayaga in 1889 and died in 1957. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP via Getty Images)