ISABEL ALLENDE

Isabel Allende is a celebrated Chilean-American author who is one of the most widely read Spanish-language writers in the world. Her novels often weave together personal experience, historical events, and elements of magical realism, with a focus on the lives of women. Her debut, The House of the Spirits (1982), became a global literary phenomenon. Her later works continue to explore themes of love, loss, and resilience across generations. In Violeta, she narrates a hundred-year life shaped by the great upheavals of the 20th century, while The Wind Knows My Name intertwines the stories of two children who are separated from their families eight decades apart, fleeing danger in Nazi-occupied Austria and modern-day El Salvador.