ISABEL ALLENDE

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Born Isabel Allende Llona on

August 2, 1942 in Lima Peru

In 2010 She received Chile’s

National Literature Prize

In 2004 She was inducted

into the American Academy of

Arts and Letters

Became an American citizen

in 2003 and currently resides

in California with her husband

FOUNDATION

• In 1996 Allende

started the Isabel

Allende Foundation

• She wanted to

support programs

that promote and

preserve the

fundamental rights

of women and

children to be

empowered and

protected.

LITERACY CAREER

Magical Realism • “Magical Realism is

characterized as by two

conflicting perspective,

one based on a rational

view of reality and the

other on the acceptance

of the supernatural as

prosaic reality”.

• Isabel uses this style of writing in the majority of her works.

• Books have been translated in over 30 languages and sold more than 56 million copies

• There have been 3 movies made in correlation to her books.• Aphrodite, Eva Luna, and Gift

for a Sweetheart

AWARDS Author of the Year 1984, 1986

Novel of the Year 1983, Book of the Year 1984

Best Novel 1985

Feminist of the Year Award 1994

Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature 1996

Chilean National Prize for Literature 2010

Hans Christina Anderson Literature Award

2011

NOVELS The House of Spirits The Porcelain Fat Lady

Of Love and Shadows The Stories of Eva Luna Eva

Luna

The Infinite Plan Daughter of Fortune

Paula

Portrait in Sepia City of the Beasts

Zorro

My Invented Country Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Forest of the Pygmies The Sum of Our Days Ines of My

Soul

The Island Beneath the Sea El Cuaderno de Maya

Works Cited • "Isabel Allende." Wikipedia, the Free

Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, 25 July 2011. Web. 25 July 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Allende>.

• Moore, Lindsay. "Travel.html." Emory University---English Department "Where Courageous Inquiry Leads" 1998. Web. 25 July 2011. <http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/MagicalRealism.html>.