In her daughter’s honor, Allende established the Isabel Allende Foundation, which supports women’s empowerment non-profits in Chile and California. Allende mentions her deceased daughter Paula as one of her greatest inspirations, as Paula volunteered as a psychologist and teacher to help young girls and women. Today, Isabel Allende is widely regarded as one of the leading feminists of the literary world. Isabel Allende at Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 by Lesekreis, via Wikimedia Commons In Venezuela, Allende worked as a journalist for a prominent national newspaper.Īllende’s most well-regarded novel is probably The House of the Spirits, which has been compared with Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude for its magical realist elements and fictional-historical view of Latin America. After a coup overthrew Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet as head of the military junta, Isabel Allende fled for her life to Venezuela, where she lived for 13 years. Chilean-American author and journalist Isabel Allende has written many popular novels, including The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts and Eva Luna.īorn in Peru, Allende’s father was the cousin of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president from 1970 to 1973.
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