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Chapter 24 - Isabel Allende, the Post-Boom, and Chilean Exile Literature

from Part III - Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2021

By
Lila McDowell Carlsen
Edited by
Ignacio López-Calvo
Ignacio López-Calvo
Affiliation:
University of California, Merced
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Summary

Isabel Allende’s life and work defies national and categorical boundaries. A Chilean born in Peru in 1942 to parents of Spanish-Portuguese descent, Allende holds US citizenship and has resided in California since 1988. With the publication of La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) in 1982, she was catapulted to international literary stardom, and has since received numerous literary and honorary prizes, and sold approximately seventy-five million books worldwide. Her twenty-three books have been translated into forty-two languages.

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A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 500 - 519
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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