In 1981, Allende began writing a letter to her grandfather, who was dying in Chile. (After decades of controversy surrounding the cause of his death, an autopsy confirmed in 2011 that it was a suicide.) Isabel Allende became active in aiding victims of the repression and brutality of Pinochet's regime, but realizing it was dangerous to stay in Chile, she fled the country with her husband and two children in 1975 and lived in exile in Venezuela for 13 years. During an attack on the presidential palace Salvador Allende was shot and killed. Literary WorkĪllende's life was forever changed when General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup in 1973, toppling Salvador Allende's government.
She became a prominent journalist working in television and for magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Allende said she was determined to work as a young woman and started her writing career as a journalist. Her mother remarried to Ramón Huidobro, also a diplomat, and the family moved often as his posts changed. I wanted to be like my grandfather because my mother had a terrible life and he had all the privileges and the power and the freedom and the car – I think that was the moment I started to rebel against all male authority: the police, the church, everything." "My grandfather would pay for what was necessary but my mother did not even have the cash to buy us an ice cream. “We lived in an affluent house – with no money," she said in an interview with The Telegraph. Allende remembers herself as a rebellious child during those years living with her grandfather. She, her siblings and mother then moved in with her grandfather in Chile. Her father, a diplomat, deserted the family when Allende was just two. She is the goddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first socialist president of Chile who was her father's cousin. Isabel Allende was born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru, to Tomás and Francisca Allende.
She has written over 20 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold more than 67 million copies. Her best-known works include the novels The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts. Isabel Allende is a Chilean journalist and author born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru.
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