the next years chacel lived in relative obscurity: a well-known writer but one who had made no new projects in years. this changed in 1959, however, when she won a guggenheim fellowship, which allowed her to travel to new york city and return to writing. chacel worked in new york until 1961, when, with her home country living a calmed down social state, she returned to spain. in may 1963, chacel returned to brazil, where she remained until 1970, when she returned to spain for a short stay. she would live in brazil for three more years, as, in 1973, she made her second return to her home country.