Meet this one notable writer.

1. With this one uttered by
Isabel Allende, what can you say
about her?

2. Isabel
Allende
Her
Life and
Works

3. Presented by:
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4. [biography]
“It is very strange to write one’s
biography because it is just a list of
dates, events, and achievements. In
reality, the most important things
about my life happened in the secret
chambers of my heart and have no
place in a biography. My most
significant achievements are not my
books, but the love I share with a
few people—especially my family—
and the ways in which I have tried to
help others.
HOW SHE VIEWS IT!

5.  When I was young, I
often felt desperate: so
much pain in the world
and so little I could do to
alleviate it!
 But now I look back at
my life and feel satisfied
because few days went
by without me at least
trying to make a
difference.”

6. QUICK FACTS

7. NAME:
Isabel
Allende
[isa’βel a’ʝende]

8. Spouse(s):
Miguel Frías (1962-1987)
Willie Gordon (1988-present)

9. Allende has been
called "the world's
most widely read
Spanish-language
author".
[Wikipedia]

10. BIRTH DATE:
August 02, 1942

11. PLACE OF BIRTH:
Lima, Peru

12. OCCUPATION:
Journalist,
Author &
Activist

13. [synopsis]
Isabel Allende is a Chilean journalist and
author born on August 2, 1942, in Lima,
Peru.
Her best-known works, which include
the novels The House of the
Spirits and City of the Beasts, are
written in the style of magic realism,
which uses fantasy and myth to override
time and place.

14. [biography]
She is the niece and goddaughter
of Salvador Allende, the former
president of Chile. She started
her writing career as a journalist.

15. [biography– cont…]
 In 1945, after Tomás had disappeared, Isabel's
mother relocated with her three (3) children to
Santiago, Chile, where they lived until 1953.
 Between 1953 and 1958, Allende's mother
married Ramón Huidobro and moved often.
Huidobro was a diplomat appointed to Bolivia and
Beirut. In Bolivia, Allende attended an American
private school; and in Beirut, Lebanon she
attended an English private school. The family
returned to Chile in 1958. Allende was also briefly
home-schooled. In her youth, she read widely,
particularly the works of William Shakespeare.

16. [biography – cont…]
 From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the United
Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in
Santiago, Chile, then in Brussels, Belgium, and
elsewhere in Europe.
 For a brief while in Chile, she also had a job
translating romance novels from English to Spanish.
 However, she was fired for making unauthorized
changes to the dialogue of the heroines to make
them sound more intelligent as well as altering
the Cinderella endings to let the heroines find more
independence and do good in the world.

17. [biography– cont…]
 Allende and Frías' daughter Paula was born in 1963.
 In 1966, Allende again returned to Chile and her son Nicolás was
born there that year.
 Reportedly, "the CIA-backed military coup in September 1973
(that brought Augusto Pinochet to power) changed everything"
for Allende because "her name meant she was caught up in
finding safe passage for those on the wanted lists" (helping until
her mother and stepfather, a diplomat in Argentina, narrowly
escaped assassination).
 When she herself was added to the list and began receiving death
threats, she fled to Venezuela, where she stayed for 13 years.
 In Venezuela she was a columnist for El Nacional, a main
newspaper.
 In 1978, she began a temporary separation from Miguel Frías.
She lived in Spain for two months, then returned to her marriage.

18. [biography– cont…]
 During a visit to California in 1988, Allende met her second husband,
attorney Willie Gordon. In 1994, she was awarded the Gabriela
Mistral Order of Merit, the first woman to receive this honor.
 Allende currently lives in San Rafael, California.
Most of her family lives near her, with her son living "with his second
wife and her grandchildren just down the hill; her son and his family
live in the house she and her second husband, San Francisco lawyer
and novelist
William Gordon, vacated."
 In 2006, she was one of the eight flag bearers at the Opening
Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
 In 2008, Allende received the honorary degree Doctor of Humane
Letters from San Francisco State University for her "distinguished
contributions as a literary artist and humanitarian."

19. [foundation]
 Allende started the Isabel Allende
Foundation on 9 December 1996 to pay
homage to her daughter,
Paula Frías Allende who experienced a coma
after complications of the disease porphyria led
to her hospitalization.
Paula was 28 years old when she died in 1992.
The foundation is "dedicated to supporting
programs that promote and preserve the
fundamental rights of women and children to be
empowered and protected."

20. [notable awards]
In 2004, Allende
was inducted into the
American Academy of Arts
and Letters,
and in 2010,
she received Chile's
National Literature Prize.

21. [literary works]
Several months after her
uncle's assassination and the
overthrow of Chile's coalition
government in 1973, Allende
left Chile and found refuge in
Venezuela.

22. 
First English edition © 1985

The astonishing debut of a gifted
storyteller, The House of the
Spirits is both a symbolic family
saga and the story of an unnamed
Latin American country's turbulent
history. Isabel Allende constructs a
spirit-ridden world and fills it with
colorful and all-too-human
inhabitants, including Esteban, the
patriarch, a volatile and proud man
whose lust for land is legendary
and who is haunted by tyrannical
passion for the wife he can never
completely possess; Clara, the
matriarch, elusive and mysterious,
who foretells family tragedy and
shapes the fortunes of the house
and the Truebas; Blanca, their
daughter, soft-spoken yet
rebellious, whose shocking love for
the son of her father’s foreman
fuels Esteban’s everlasting
contempt, even as it produces the
grandchild he adores; and Alba,
the fruit of Blanca’s forbidden love,
a luminous beauty and a fiery and
willful woman.

23.  First English edition ©
1987
 Set in an atmosphere of
uncertainty and fear, in a
country of arbitrary
arrests, sudden
disappearances, and
summary executions,
Isabel Allende's second
novel tells of the
passionate affair of two
people prepared to risk
everything for the sake
of justice and truth.

24.  First English edition ©
1988
 As Eva tells her story,
Isabel Allende conjures
up a whole complex
South American nation—
the rich, the poor, the
simple, and the
sophisticated—in a novel
replete with character
and incident, with drama
and comedy and history,
a novel that will delight
and increase her devoted
audience.

25.  First English edition © 1991
 In 1988 Isabel Allende
published Eva Luna, a novel
that recounted the
adventurous life of a poor
young Latin American woman
who finds friendship, love,
and some measure of worldly
success through her powers
as a storyteller. Her most
ambitious novel to date, Eva
Luna was described by The
Washington Post as a
“cascade of stories [that]
tumbles out before the reader,
stories vivid, passionate, and
human.” Now in The Stories of
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende again
presents us with a treasure
trove of such stories, showing
us once more why Eva Luna
(and her much-celebrated
creator) has such a large and
devoted readership.

26.  First English edition ©
1993
 A saga of one man's
search for love and his
struggle to come to
terms with a childhood of
poverty and neglect, The
Infinite Plan is Isabel
Allende’s first novel to be
set in the United States
and to portray American
characters.

27.  First English edition ©
1995
 Isabel Allende has
mesmerized readers
throughout the world
with her own blend of
magical realism, politics,
and romance. With Paula
Allende has written a
tour de force, a powerful
autobiography whose
straightforward
acceptance of the
magical and spiritual
worlds will remind
readers of her first book,
The House of the Spirits.

28.  First English edition ©
1998
 Isabel Allende brings her
magical storytelling
powers to a highly
personal and charmingly
idiosyncratic look at the
intertwined sensual arts of
food and love. Blending
personal reminiscence
with folklore from around
the world, historical
legends, and memorable
moments from literature—
erotic and otherwise—
Allende spices her
narrative with equal
portions of humor and
insight.

29.  First English edition ©
1999
 Daughter of Fortune is a
sweeping portrait of an
era, a story rich in
character, history,
violence, and compassion.
In Eliza, Allende has
created one of her most
appealing heroines, an
adventurous, independentminded, and highly
unconventional young
woman who has the
courage to reinvent herself
and to create her hardwon destiny in a new
country.

30.  First English edition ©
2001
 A historical novel set at
the end of the nineteenth
century in Chile, Portrait
in Sepia is a family saga
that continues the story
begun in Allende’s highly
acclaimed Daughter of
Fortune. Recounted in
the voice of a young
woman in search of her
roots, Portrait in Sepia is
a novel about memory
and family secrets.

31. 
First English edition © 2002

The first in a three-part series
for young adults (Kingdom of
the Golden Dragon and Forest of
the Pygmies follow), City of the
Beasts features high adventure
and magical realism. When his
mother becomes ill, fifteenyear-old Alexander Cold is sent
away to join his fearless and
tough-minded grandmother, a
magazine reporter for
International Geographic, on an
expedition to the dangerous,
remote world of the Amazon.
Their mission, along with the
others on their team—including
a celebrated anthropologist; a
local guide and his young
daughter, Nadia; and a doctor—
is to document the legendary
Yeti of the Amazon known as the
Beast.

32.  First English edition © 2003
 My Invented Country is a
memoir in which truth is most
definitely stranger than
fiction. Exploring the events of
her life and those of the
country in which she lived
until the assassination of her
father's cousin, President
Salvador Allende, in Pinochet’s
military coup, Allende takes
us on a highly personal tour
through her homeland,
bringing it to life. This is
where her grandfather saw
the devil on a bus, recognizing
him because of his “green
cloven hooves like a billy
goat,” and her great aunt
sprouted wings. It is a place
of love charms, ghosts, and
continual family feuds.

33.  First English edition ©
2004
 Isabel Allende once again
leads readers on a
fantastical voyage of
suspense, magic, and
awe-inspiring adventure
in this riveting follow-up
to City of the Beasts.

34. 
First English edition © 2005

Alexander Cold knows all too
well his grandmother Kate is
never far from an adventure.
When International Geographic
commissions her to write an
article about the first elephantled safaris in Africa, they head—
with Nadia Santos and the
magazine’s photography crew—
to the blazing red plains of
Kenya. A few days into the tour,
a Catholic missionary
approaches their camp in search
of his companions, who have
mysteriously disappeared. Kate,
Alexander, Nadia, and their
team agree to help in the
rescue, enlisting the help of a
local pilot to lead them to the
swampy forests of Ngoubé.
There they discover a clan of
Pygmies who unveil a harsh and
surprising world of corruption,
slavery, and poaching.

35.  First English edition ©
2005
 A swashbuckling
adventure
story, Zorro reveals the
history behind the
legendary masked man.

36.  First English edition ©
2006
 Based on true-life people
and events, Inés of My
Soul recounts the
astonishing life of a
daring Spanish
conquistadora who toiled
to help build the nation
of Chile—and whose vital
role has too often been
neglected by history.

37.  First English edition ©
2008
 In this heartfelt memoir,
Isabel Allende reconstructs
the painful reality of her
own life in the wake of
tragic loss—the death of
her daughter, Paula. Based
on the daily letters the
author and her mother,
who lives in Chile, wrote
each other, Allende bares
her soul in a book that is
as exuberant and full of
life as its creator. She
recounts the stories of the
wildly eccentric, strongminded, and eclectic tribe
she gathers around her—a
tribe that becomes a new
kind of family.

38.  First English edition ©
2010
 Born on the island of
Saint-Domingue, Zarité—
known as Tété—is the
daughter of an African
mother she never knew
and one of the white
sailors who brought her
into bondage. Though her
childhood is one of
brutality and fear, Tété
finds solace in the
traditional rhythms of
African drums and the
voodoo loa she discovers
through her fellow slaves.

39. 
First English edition © 2013

Maya Vidal is sixteen when
Popo, her beloved grandfather,
dies and Nini, her grandmother,
falls into a depression. Without
the support of her family, Maya
quickly falls in with the wrong
crowd in her Berkeley,
California, high school, joining a
trio of naughty girls who call
themselves The Vampires. She
goes from being a good student
and an excellent athlete to a
delinquent, descending a spiral
of lies, unsafe sex, drugs,
alcohol and petty theft.
Following a car accident, Maya
spends almost three years in a
school for troubled teens in
Oregon. After escaping one
night, she decides to hitchhike
her way to freedom, and is
picked up by a truck driver who
takes her to a motel, viciously
rapes her, and leaves her in Las
Vegas.

40.  First English edition © N/A
 This books has not been
published in English
 "Amor" es una recopilación de
escenas de amor y erotismo
de los libros de Isabel, que
comienza con un ensayo
divertido sobre sus primeras
experiencias con el sexo. Está
organizado por etapas de la
vida, desde el despertar al
primer amor hasta la
madurez, cruzando los
diversos umbrales de una
existencia marcada por la
pasión y el romance. La
colección se publicó primero
en Alemania y pronto
siguieron ediciones en otros
idiomas.

41. First
English
edition
© 2014

42.  The Jackson women have
always had each other. As
strong as their bond is,
however, mother and
daughter are as different
as night and day. Indiana,
a beautiful holistic healer,
is a free-spirited
bohemian. Long divorced
from Amanda’s father,
she’s reluctant to settle
down with either of the
men who want her—Alan,
the wealthy scion of one of
San Francisco’s elite
families, and Ryan, an
enigmatic and scarred
former Navy SEAL.

43.  While her mom looks for
the good in people,
Amanda—like her father,
the deputy chief of the
San Francisco Police
Department’s Homicide
Unit—is fascinated by the
dark side of humanity.
Brilliant and introverted,
the MIT-bound high
school senior is a
natural-born sleuth
addicted to crime novels
and Ripper, the online
mystery game she plays
with her beloved
grandfather and friends
around the world.

44.  When a string of strange
murders occurs across
the city, Amanda plunges
into her own
investigation,
discovering, before the
police do, that the
deaths may be
connected. But the case
becomes all too personal
when Indiana suddenly
vanishes. Could her
mother’s disappearance
be linked to the serial
killer? Now, with her
mother’s life on the line,
the young detective must
solve the most complex
mystery she’s ever faced
before it’s too late.

45. THANK YOU!

46. [sources]
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http://isabelallende.com
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/writers20
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http://www.biography.com/people/isabelallende-9181801
http://www.notablebiographies.com/AAn/Allende-Isabel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Allende