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Literature
GABRIELA MISTRAL (http://www.uchile.cl/actividades%5Fculturales/premios%5Fnobel/mistral/)
Features information on her life, poems, and bibliography. In Spanish.
ISABEL ALLENDE (http://www.isabelallende.com)
Presents the author's bibliography, biography, photo gallery, Q&A. English and Spanish.
NOBEL E-MUSEUM: LITERATURE 1945 (http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1945/)
Presents Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (1889-1957), the winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature, compiled by the Nobel Foundation. Offers access to a biography and acceptance speech of Godoy Alcayaga, who was known by the pseudonym Gabriela Mistral. In English.
PABLO NERUDA (http://www.uchile.cl/neruda/)
Features Pablo Neruda's work and life. In Spanish.
PABLO NERUDA (1904-1973) (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6681/neruda.htm)
Offers information on Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), the pseudonym of Neftali Ricardo Reyes y Basoalto, as part of the Western Canon Web site of Paul J. Barnette, Jr. Includes a biographical sketch, a list of major works, and links to electronic texts and related sites. In English.
SPOTLIGHT ON CHILE: THE GREAT POETS (http://www.localaccess.com/chappell/chile/poets.htm)
Chile's most revered poets: Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral. In English.
Language
LABORATORIO DE FONETICA (http://www.udec.cl/%7Eheperez/phonetic.html)
Phonetics Laboratory. Department of Spanish. University of Concepción. The general objective of this academic
unit is the research and teaching in the fields of descriptive, perceptual and applied phonetics. Since 1992 the
academic staff have been constantly working towards the achievement of specific objectives concerning the
description of standard speech and the development of techniques to teach Spanish to both native and foreign
speakers. English and Spanish.
MAPUCHE LANGUAGE PAGE (http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/%7Earnold/mapuche/mapudungun.html)
The Mapuche are an indigenous people who live in southern Chile and Argentina . The 1992 Chilean census
indicates that there are 928,500 Mapuche living in Chile, plus numerous others in Argentina. The traditional Mapuche
lifestyle is agricultural, but many Mapuche have moved to cities like Santiago (the capital of Chile), or Temuco,
which is a center of commerce for the 9th region. The name Mapuche is composed of two words -- "mapu", which
means "land", and "che", which means people. Their language is called "Mapudungun", and is composed of "mapu"
and "dungun", which means "talk", or "speech". In English.
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