Isabel allende biography spanish

Life and works of Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende is one of the most popular authors in Latin America and the niece of the former president of Chile, Salvador Allende. She puts her heart into a truly romantic writing that is also very concerned with political and social causes.

Her style combines dramatic features with romance and resistance. Very often, Isabel’s texts are characterized by the magic realism of Latin American literature.

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Isabel Allende Llona was born in 1942 in Lima, Peru.

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She grew up in Chile and traveled often when she was young. After the coup d’état in 1973, which caused the death of her uncle, she was forced into exile. Finally, she ended up settling down in California.

While she worked as an exiled journalist in Venezuela, three decades ago, she began to write the novel that launched her into the literary scene.

This book was a magic realism boom: La casa de los Espíritus (The House of The Spirit