Isabel Allende
Novelist
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American author who has published 18 books, including works of fiction, non-fiction, and memoir. She is one of the best-known female writers in Latin America, and is known particularly for the novels "The House of the Spirits" and "City of the Beasts." Her books have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold more than 56 million copies.
In writing, as in sports, “if you want to compete you have to train.”
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Isabel Allende has seen her American grandchildren grow up to embrace technology and rugged individuality.
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Some of Isabel Allende’s best fiction has been inspired by private correspondence. Yet as Twitter replaces the letter, she fears that we’re losing “the beauty of language.”
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Isabel Allende fell in love with New Orleans just before Katrina, and Haiti just before the earthquake. The quake in her native Chile didn’t shake her as much.
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Why female writers are so often overlooked in Latin American literary studies.
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In memoirs, the author must decide “what is mine to tell and what is not mine to tell.” But in fiction, “I do whatever I want.”
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Writers only need to gather stories and tell them. “I’m not trying to deliver any kind of mission, and I don’t think I have a mission—except telling a story,” says […]
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What the “Island Beneath the Sea” author’s desk looks like and why she starts each new novel on January 8th.
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Like magic realism, Isabel Allende’s life has transcended borders.
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A conversation with the novelist.
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