Isabel Allende Llona was born in Lima the 2 of august of 1942.
She is considered to be the most popular Latin-American novelist. She has sold more than 51 million copies and her work has been translated into more than 27 languages.
Also she was a substitute director of the magazine Mampato. Daugther of Tomás Allende,funcionari diplomatic, and of Francisca Llona, and niece of Salvador Allende, Chilean ex-president.
In 1963 there was born her daughter Paula. The following years she passed long seasons in Europe, residing specially in Brussels and Switzerland. Of return to Chile in 1966, there was born her son Nicolás.
After the death of her daughter Paula, Allende published the book of memories Paula (1994). This one is written in the shape of letter directed at her daughter, when this one was in coma in a hospital of Madrid.
They are a memory of her years of childhood and of exile. Paula died of porfiria in 1992.
Some of her books
-The house of seven mirrors.(1975).
-The city of the beasts.(2002).
-The kingdom of the golden dragoon.(2003).
-The forest of the pigmies.(2004).
-The sum of the days.(2007).
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