The author of several novels and a short fiction collection, as well as plays and stories for children, Isabel Allende (born 1942) has received international acclaim for her writing. Allende earned the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice Award...

Isabel Allende is the best-known and most widely read woman writer from Latin America. When the English translation of her widely acclaimed first novel, La casa de los espiritus (1982), appeared in 1985 under the title The House of the Spirits, she...

Isabel Allende is the best-known and most widely read woman writer from Latin America. When the English translation of her widely acclaimed first novel, La casa de los espíritus (1982), appeared in 1985 under the title The House of the Spirits,...

Respected as one of the foremost writers of contemporary Latin-American literature, Allende documents the tumultuous social, political, and gender-based issues particular to South America. She frequently draws upon her own experiences as well as those...

Born August 2, 1942 Lima, Peru Writer of novels and memoirs Isabel Allende. . "I knew exactly what was happening in my country, I lived through it, and the dead, the tortured, the widows and orphans,...

Isabel Allende Llona, (born 2 August 1942), is a Chilean novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America.[1] She is largely famous for her contributions to...

Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The term "magical realism," so often applied to the works of Latin American writers, is misleading, author Isabel Allende says. Mrs. Allende, who spent many years of her life in Chile, appears Tuesday in the Literary...

On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, backed by the CIA, overthrew the controversial popular unity government led by Socialist President Salvador Allende. Allende, Isabel Allende's uncle, reportedly committed suicide during this coup d'etat, and General Augusto Pinochet established an anti-Communist military dictatorship...

Hundreds of supporters of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, many in tears, filed Monday past the brown wooden coffin for the ex-dictator, who was denied a state funeral normally granted to former presidents.While Pinochet's relatives mourned his death Sunday from heart failure at age 91, his many...

Hundreds of supporters of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, many in tears, filed Monday past the brown wooden coffin for the ex-dictator, who was denied a state funeral normally granted to former presidents.While Pinochet's relatives mourned his death Sunday from heart failure at age 91, his many...

In the following essay, Hart contends that Allende employs the technique of magic realism in The Stories of Eva Luna in order to present a feminist perspective on issues such as prostitution, domestic violence, and rape.

In the essay below, Hart examines what she terms "feminocentric magic realism" in The Stories of Eva Luna, focusing on Allende's handling of such issues as prostitution and rape.

In the following essay, Cohn compares the literary techniques of Ralph Ellison in Invisible Man and Allende in La casa de los espíritus, examining their respective treatment of the marginalization of social groups.

Essay portrays the Latin American woman through the eyes of Isabel Allende.