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Isabel Allende

March 2023

  • Gabriel García Márquez

    Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer

    Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator

February 2022

  • Isabel Allende (landscape) credit Lori Barra

    The books of my life
    Isabel Allende: ‘I have been displaced most of my life’

    The Chilean American author on the allure of Arabian Nights, the inspiration of Gabriel García Márquez and the heartbreak of Jack London

January 2022

  • Isabel Allende.

    Books interview
    Isabel Allende: ‘I still have the same rage’

    The renowned author on the unfinished task of replacing the patriarchy, swapping 24,000 letters with her mother, and why she gives all her books away

February 2021

  • Barcino International Historical Novel Award<br>epa07971565 Chilean writer Isabel Allende poses for media before receiving the Barcino International Historical Novel Award in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 04 November 2019. The award ceremony is held on the sidelines of the Barcelona Historical Novel literary event that runs from 04 to 09 November 2019. EPA/Quique Garcia

    In brief: The Walking People; Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain; A Long Petal of the Sea – reviews

  • Isabel Allende<br>SPECIAL PRICE. NO SOCIAL MEDIA OR WEBSITES. Chilean-American writer, Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende: 'Everyone called me crazy for divorcing in my 70s. I’ve never been scared of being alone'

May 2020

  • Office in a Small City 1953 Edward Hopper American United States of American<br>Office in a Small City 1953 Edward Hopper American United States of American

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about silence

    Not saying anything can be as eloquent as speech, as told by authors from ranging from Pat Barker to Carson McCullers and Ian McEwan

February 2020

  • Isabel Allende, Peruvian writer, Mantova, Italy, 22nd October 2015. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

    A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende review – love on the run from Franco

    A doctor and his brother’s wife connect in exile from fascist Spain

January 2020

  • Barcino International Historical Novel Award<br>epa07971566 Chilean writer Isabel Allende poses for media before receiving the Barcino International Historical Novel Award in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 04 November 2019. The award ceremony is held on the sidelines of the Barcelona Historical Novel literary event that runs from 04 to 09 November 2019. EPA/Quique Garcia

    Books that made me
    Isabel Allende: ‘The Female Eunuch confirmed I was not crazy’

  • Isabel Allende.

    A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende review – a sweeping historical saga

November 2018

  • Sigrid Nunez at the Ucross Foundation’s Inaugural New York Gala

    National Book Awards: Sigrid Nunez wins fiction prize as Isabel Allende is honoured

    Chilean-born author receives lifetime achievement award at ceremony celebrating diversity, truth and literature as healing forces in a dark time

May 2017

  • Margaret Atwood, Ai Weiwei and Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood lead campaign for displaced writers

    The two novelists are among 200 writers and artists backing PEN International’s three-year plan to promote work by censored and persecuted people

December 2015

  • Isabel Allende in California.

    Isabel Allende: 'Few couples survive the death of one child, let alone three'

    After years of exile, novelist Isabel Allende found sanctuary in a rock-solid marriage. Now alone for the first time in 27 years, she reflects on loneliness, her fears for South America – and why living longer means making more mistakes

September 2015

  • Mario Vargas Llosa with Carmen Balcells in 2006

    Books blog
    Queen of the Spanish-language literary world: Isabel Allende on Carmen Balcells

    Thanks to the celebrated agent, a generation of writers, among them Pablo Neruda and Gabriel García Márquez, could make a living from their work. She was the godmother of every word I have written

November 2014

  • Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende to be awarded US Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Chilean-American author to receive the highest civilian honour in the US at White House ceremony with Obama this month

February 2014

  • Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende's scorn for crime fiction draws fire from fans and writers

    Widespread outrage after author of Ripper says her venture into the genre is 'a joke' and reveals dislike for thrillers
  • The Last Seduction

    Thrillers roundup
    Thrillers - review roundup

    John O'Connell: The Girl With a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson, The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter, Taking Morgan by David Rose, Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas and Ripper by Isabel Allende
  • allende juego de ripper

    Ripper by Isabel Allende – review

    Isabel Allende's San Francisco serial-killer story displays her customary gift for strong characterisation and fine narrative detail, writes Sophia Martelli

December 2013

  • Sherman Alexie

    Book bannings on the rise in US schools, says anti-censorship group

    The Kids' Right to Read Project investigated 49 book bannings or removals from school shelves in 29 states this year

September 2013

  • Isabel Allende awarded the Ciudad De Alcala of the Arts and Literature, Madrid, Spain - 09 Oct 2011

    My family values
    Isabel Allende: My family values

    The novelist and former political refugee talks about her complex relationship with her mother, the death of her daughter and the impact of drug addiction on her family. Interview by Anita Sethi

May 2013

  • Isabel Allende

    Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende – review

    Isabel Allende's latest novel is a story of survival, but it avoids the brutal possibilities of reality, writes Emily Perkins
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