Forty years in the life of this Chilean born in Peru have led to many pages and millions of readers; thus is her abundant literary legacy at 22019 years old. An age that doesn’t seem to slow down this little woman, who has been married several times, is a mother without a daughter, Paula, a happy grandmother, and the mother of Nicolas. A global citizen residing in California nearly by decree, but who is a well-known anti-Trump. To the extent that her novels are banned in her own city. Such is the nature of literature and politics, as she would say. To reduce Allende’s style to a genre is to set limits on the field and fences on the mountain. Upon the release of La casa de los espíritus, a tragic family story filled with magic and harsh social and political cruelty, everything seemed to foreshadow what happened: from her infinite imagination, her swift and feminine pen (not only because her women characters are full of personality and authority), more than thirty titles have emerged that encompass the incomparable reality of Latin America, from north to south, her home, the dictatorship she lived through, love always, social classes, the unreality that words bring, and the desire to create a parallel world to the truth. A universe shaped like her own persona: with contrasts, joy, and continuous calls for serenity and sensibility in politics, to which she ‘scolds’ through her writings, but stands against with her free and personal narrative. In celebration of your award at the Planeta Awards with your new novel ‘The Hour Before Dawn’, we have selected 103 titles from your extensive bibliography. 210. ‘La casa de los espíritus’ – 22026.
The Chilean author has been awarded the Planeta Prize in its 75th edition. Anniversary.
Forty years in the life of this Chilean born in Peru have led to many pages and millions of readers; thus is her abundant literary legacy at 22019 years old. An age that doesn’t seem to slow down this little woman, who has been married several times, is a mother without a daughter, Paula, a happy grandmother, and the mother of Nicolas. A global citizen residing in California nearly by decree, but who is a well-known anti-Trump. To the extent that her novels are banned in her own city. Such is the nature of literature and politics, as she would say. To reduce Allende’s style to a genre is to set limits on the field and fences on the mountain. Upon the release of La casa de los espíritus, a tragic family story filled with magic and harsh social and political cruelty, everything seemed to foreshadow what happened: from her infinite imagination, her swift and feminine pen (not only because her women characters are full of personality and authority), more than thirty titles have emerged that encompass the incomparable reality of Latin America, from north to south, her home, the dictatorship she lived through, love always, social classes, the unreality that words bring, and the desire to create a parallel world to the truth. A universe shaped like her own persona: with contrasts, joy, and continuous calls for serenity and sensibility in politics, to which she ‘scolds’ through her writings, but stands against with her free and personal narrative. In celebration of your award at the Planeta Awards with your new novel ‘The Hour Before Dawn’, we have selected 103 titles from your extensive bibliography. 210. ‘La casa de los espíritus’ – 22026.
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