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Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer known for her novels and literary works. She is one of the most widely read authors from Latin America and has made significant contributions to world literature through her writing.
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- 2 August 1942
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- Perla and the Princess
- The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
- El juego de Ripper
- LA NINFA DE PORCELANA
- SUMA DE LOS DIAS LA Debols!llo
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Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer. She is best known for novels such as "The House of the Spirits" (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and "City of the Beasts" (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002).
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- Isabel Allende: A Writer in Exile — Self - Writer2025
- La Revuelta — Self - Guest2024
- 45 minutos con — Self2023
- Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir — Self2021
- Poder & verdad — Self2021
- La entrevista de — Self2019
- The Power of the Heart — Self2014
- Jane the Virgin — Isabel Allende
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Isabel Angélica Allende Llona ( Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Allende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. She has lectured and toured U.S. colleges to teach literature. Fluent in English, Allende was granted United States citizenship in 1993, having lived in California since 1989.
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