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Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Peru. She spent her early childhood in Chile, and lived in Bolivia and Lebanon during her adolescence and youth. After the military coup in Chile in 1973, she expatriated to Venezuela, and since 1987 she has lived as an emigrant in California. She calls herself an "eternal foreigner".
She began her literary career in journalism in Chile and Venezuela. In 1982, her epic debut, "The House of the Spirits", became one of the legendary novels of Latin American literature. It was followed by many others, all of which achieved international success. Her works have been translated into forty languages and have sold over seventy million copies: she is the most widely read Spanish-language writer. Allende has received over sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Literary Prize in 2010, the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Award (2012) for her trilogy "Memoirs of the Eagle and the Jaguar," and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. In 2018, Isabel Allende became the first Hispanic writer to be honored with the National Book Award in the United States for her significant contribution to literature.
"House of the Spirits", "Of Love and Darkness", "Eva Luna", "Stories of Eva Luna", "The Infinite Plan", "Paula", "Aphrodite", "The Daughter of Fortune", "Sepia Portrait", "City of Monsters", "My Imaginary Country", "The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon", "Zorro", "The Forest of the Pygmies", "Ines of My Soul", "The Sum of Days", "The Island in the Depths of the Sea", "Maya's Diary", "The Ripper Game", "The Japanese Lover", "There, Beyond Winter", "The Long Petal of the Sea".
Isabel Allende delves into her memories and offers us a moving book about her attitude to feminism and the fact that she is a woman. “Every year I live and every wrinkle tells my story,” the great Chilean writer invites us to accompany her on a moving journey in which she reviews her life and work. She talks about the very important women in her life: her relatives Panchita, Paulo, and the agent Carmen Balcels, whom she misses; outstanding writers, rebels in art, including Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, and Eve Ensler; and also nameless women who have survived violence but, full of dignity and courage, get up and move forward. All those who have always accompanied her through life and who inspire her: the women of her soul. She reflects on the #MeToo movement, the recent social unrest in her home country, and the disturbing situation in which we all live with the arrival of the pandemic. And all this without losing her characteristic passion for life and insisting that, despite age, there is always time for love. No matter what, adult life should be lived, felt and enjoyed to the fullest.