Isabel Allende

Spain’s Cabinet announced Friday the appointment of Isabel Allende, the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, to the Council of the Cervantes Institute, whose mission is promoting the language, literature and culture of the Iberian nation. The council is responsible for guiding the Cervantes Institute’s activities, and its members are drawn from representatives of Spanish and Latin American culture and letters, universities and other social institutions. Besides recipients of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world, the council includes Latin American writers such as Tomas Eloy Martinez, Juan Villoro, Federico Luppi, Angeles Mastretta and, starting Friday, Isabel Allende, replacing ... Read Full Story

Spain’s Cabinet announced Friday the appointment of Isabel Allende, the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, to the Council of the Cervantes Institute, whose mission is promoting the language, literature and culture of the Iberian nation. The council is responsible for guiding the Cervantes Institute’s activities, and its members are drawn from representatives of Spanish and Latin American culture and letters, universities and other social institutions. Besides recipients of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world, the council includes Latin American writers such as Tomas Eloy Martinez, Juan Villoro, Federico Luppi, Angeles Mastretta and, starting Friday, Isabel Allende, replacing ... Read Full Story

Isabel Allende writes novels about self-reliant women who thrive in the midst of political turmoil. In her passionate TEDTalk, Allende praises women whose grit and selflessness transform the meaning of modern feminism -- mentioning, in particular, three women of rare courage: Wangari Maathai, Somaly Mam and Rose Mapendo. Watch Isabel Allende's TEDTalk , then read what these women are doing now to change our world. Wangari Maathai (find her at 4:09 in Allende's talk) is the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As Allende says, Maathai "planted 30 million trees , and by doing so she has changed the soil, the ... Read Full Story

Chilean-American Acclaimed Novelist Isabel Allende is an internationally acclaimed author considered to be part of the Latin American feminist literary awakening. Born in Lima, Peru, she grew up in Chile and travelled around the world as the daughter of a Chilean diplomat. She is best known for her epic and highly autobiographical novel ‘The House of Spirits’, which was later released as a motion picture in 1993. “A genius” The Los Angeles Times In detail Isabel Allende worked with the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Santiago, then later in Brussels, Belgium, and in Europe. For a brief period in Chile, she also ... Read Full Story

Anais Nin, the deeply sensual, erotic writer, has lived with me most of my life. Marilyn Monroe arrived five years ago, and now the Three Sisters trio is complete. I crashed into writer Isabel Allende yesterday afternoon, when I wasn’t even looking for her. She was living all this time in plain view on the bookshelf facing my bed, waiting patiently on the top shelf, about six inches from Marilyn Monroe. Hovering overhead on the bedroom wall, my guardian angel Marilyn emits a soft sigh of relief: ” Honestly, Anne, I thought you would never find Isabel. Sometimes you are so obtuse, almost defiant ... Read Full Story