Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende was born on 2 August 1942 in Lima, where her father, the diplomat Tomás Allende, cousin of the future president Salvador Allende, was posted. A journalist, she wrote from 1967 for the magazine Paula and edited the children's magazine Mampato. She left for Venezuela in 1975, after the coup d'état, lived there for thirteen years, then settled in the United States, in California. She received Chile's National Prize for Literature in 2010.

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• NovelThe House of the SpiritsLa casa de los espíritusIsabel Allende · 1982Literature