Biography
Isabel Allende was born on 2 August 1942 in Lima, where her father served as a Chilean diplomat, and spent part of her childhood in Santiago de Chile. The novel La casa de los espíritus (1982, The House of the Spirits) made her internationally known; her books often combine historical material with elements of magical realism. She is regarded as one of the most widely read Spanish language authors. She received Chile's National Prize for Literature in 2010 and the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, having held US citizenship since 1993. Her novel Zorro (2005) tells the origin story of the masked hero and inspired the musical Zorro with music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron.
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