I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be." Allende believed that, being female in a patriarchal family, she was not expected to be a "liberated" person. Allende has stated that her move from Chile made her a serious writer: "I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. It was during this time that Allende wrote her debut novel The House of the Spirits (1982). When she herself was added to the list and began receiving death threats, she fled to Venezuela, where she stayed for 13 years. Isabel found herself arranging safe passage for people on the "wanted lists", which she continued to do until her mother and stepfather narrowly escaped assassination. In 1973, Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. In 1966, Allende again returned to Chile, where her son Nicolás was born that year. Īllende's and Frías's daughter Paula was born in 1963 she died in 1992. 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 ending to allow the heroines to find more independence and do good in the world. For a short time in Chile, she also had a job translating romance novels from English to Spanish.
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Reportedly, "Allende married early, into an Anglophile family and a kind of double life: at home she was the obedient wife and mother of two in public she became, after a spell translating Barbara Cartland, a moderately well-known TV personality, a dramatist and a journalist on a feminist magazine." įrom 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Santiago, then in Brussels, and elsewhere in Europe. They had two children, a son and a daughter. While living in Chile, Allende finished her secondary studies and met engineering student Miguel Frías whom she married in 1962. In 1970, Salvador Allende appointed Huidobro as ambassador to Argentina. In her youth, she read widely, particularly the works of William Shakespeare. The family returned to Chile in 1958, where Allende was also briefly home-schooled. In La Paz, Bolivia, Allende attended an American private school and in Beirut, Lebanon, she attended an English private school. Huidobro was a diplomat appointed to Bolivia and Beirut. In 1953 Allende's mother married Ramón Huidobro and the family moved often. In 1945, after Tomás left them, Isabel's mother relocated with her three children to Santiago, Chile, where they lived until 1953. Her father was a first cousin of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973. Fluent in English, Allende was granted United States citizenship in 1993, having lived in California since 1989, first with her American husband (from whom she is now divorced).Īllende was born in Lima, Peru, the daughter of Francisca Llona Barros called "Doña Panchita" (the daughter of Agustín Llona Cuevas and Isabel Barros Moreira, of Portuguese descent) and Tomás Allende, who was at the time a second secretary at the Chilean embassy. Īllende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits ( La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts ( La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Spanish is spoken everywhere.Isabel Angélica Allende Llona ( American Spanish: ( listen) born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. It seems to be a vicious circle of poverty The film shows all the risks that these women have when they traffic with drugs It also shows how women, because of poverty, lack of opportunities, no academic qualifications etc., have to accept working as mules to try to aim for a better life The film shows the area in the USA where Clara, Lucy's sister, lives as a "mini Colombia". Even though Juan, the boyfriend, asks María to marry him when he finds out that she is pregnant and live in his house, he is not showing any affection or hope of a better life. There are no men in the house, therefore she is the only person that can bring money to the house Very few men in the film show sympathy or compassion. Her mother and grandmother are not the age to work and her sister has a baby. There is a lot of poverty in the town where she lives and the only job available in the area is a factory of roses, where she is not treated well by her boss.
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