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Isabel Allende. (1942 - Present). Biography. Novelist, translator, journalist, political activist, daughter, mother, and wife. Born in 1942 in Lima, Peru.
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Isabel Allende (1942 - Present)
Biography • Novelist, translator, journalist, political activist, daughter, mother, and wife. • Born in 1942 in Lima, Peru. • Daughter of diplomat Tomás Allende, ambassador of Chile in Peru (Tomás Allende was first cousin of Salvador Allende, President of Chile between 1970 and 1973). • In 1945, after her father’s disappearance, her mother moved to Santiago de Chile with her three children, where they lived until 1953. • Between 1953 and 1958, Isabel Allende lived in various countries such as Bolivia y Lebanon, where she attended British and US private schools. • The family returned to Chile in 1958. Isabel Allende met Miguel Frías there, and married him in 1962.
Biography • Between 1959 and 1965, Allende worked for the United Nations in Santiago, Brussels and other European countries. • Allende had her daughter Paula in 1963. In 1966 returned to Chile. On that same year, she had her son Nicolás. • In 1973 she went to Venezuela on exile, where she lived for 13 years. • In 1978 she separated from Miguel Frías. • During a visit to California in 1988, Allende met her second husband, lawyer Willie Gordon. They currently live in San Rafael, California. • She is the founder of The Isabel Allende Foundation, which focuses on programs that defend and support women and children’s rights.
Her work • The House of the Spirits (1982) • The Porcelain Fat Lady (1984) • Of Love and Shadows (1985) • Eva Luna (1987) • The Stories of Eva Luna (1989) • The Infinite Plan (1991) • Paula (1995) • Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (1998) • Daughter of Fortune (1999)
Portrait in Sepia (2000) • City of the Beasts (2002) • My Invented Country: A Memoir (2003) • Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004) • Zorro (2005) • Forest of the Pygmies (2005) • Ines of My Soul (2006) • The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (2008) • “Island Under the Sea” (2009)