Isabel Allende Birth:
Isabel Allende was born August 2, 1942 in Lima, Peru.
Isabel Allende Life and Writing:
Born in Lima, Peru in 1942, Isabel Allende's father was the Chilean ambassador of Peru and first cousin to Chile's President from 1970 to 1973, Salvador Allende. Allende's parents divorced when she was three-years-old, and she went with her mother to Santiago, Chile to live in her grandparents' home. In 1953, when her mother married a diplomat, the family moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where Allende attended a private high school.
Allende finished high school in Chile at the age of 16. Three yeas later, she married her first husband and went to work as a secretary at the United nations Food and Agricultural Organization. She gave birth to her daughter Paula in 1963 and her son Nicolas in 1966.
In 1973, Salvador Allende was assassinated in the military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. Allende fled to Venezuela, where she worked as a journalist and wrote her first novel, The House of the Spirits (1982).
In 1973, Salvador Allende was assassinated in the military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. Allende fled to Venezuela, where she worked as a journalist and wrote her first novel, The House of the Spirits (1982).
While on tour in California for Of Love and Shadows (1985) in 1988, she met and fell in love with her second husband (she was divorced the previous year), with whom she has lived ever since.
Isabel Allende's writing, which explores feminine experience and often contains elements of magical realism, has been compared to that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Her latest novel, The Island Beneath the Sea (2010) follows a femaile slave named Zarite in 1770 Haiti as she flees to New Orleans.
Isabel Allende's writing, which explores feminine experience and often contains elements of magical realism, has been compared to that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Her latest novel, The Island Beneath the Sea (2010) follows a femaile slave named Zarite in 1770 Haiti as she flees to New Orleans.
Isabel Allende Recent Novels:
The Island Beneath the Sea (2010)
