It is very strange to write one's biography because it is just a list of dates, events, and achievements. In reality the most important things about one's life happen in the secret chambers of the heart and cannot be included in a list like this. I think that my most significant achievement is not my writing, but the love I share with my family. But in this web-site we need to have my bio: students and journalists request it often.
 

Name: Isabel Allende

Nationality: Chilean

Date of Birth: August 2, 1942

Journalist:

  • 1964-74 in Chile:
      • Women's magazine “Paula”
      • Children's magazine “Mampato”
      • Television shows
      • Movie documentaries

    • 1975-84 in Venezuela
        • Newspaper “El Nacional”

      Author:

      • Published articles in newspapers and magazines in America and Europe

      • Lecture tours in America and Europe

      • Speech tours in universities and colleges

      • Literature Workshops in USA

      • Taught Literature at:
        • University of Virginia, Charlottesville
        • Montclair College, New Jersey
        • University of California, Berkeley

      • Short stories for children and humor books, Chile 1972-73

      • Short story for children, Venezuela 1983, “La Gorda de Porcelana”

      • Theater plays in Chile:
        • “El Embajador”, 1971
        • “La Balada del Medio Pelo”, 1973
        • “Los Siete Espejos”, 1974

      Books:

      “The House of the Spirits”, (novel) Spain 1982

      “Of Love and Shadows”, (novel) Spain 1984

      “Eva Luna'”, (novel) Spain 1985

      “Stories of Eva Luna”, (short stories) Spain 1989

      “The Infinite Plan”, (novel) Spain 1991

      “Paula”, (novel) Spain 1994

      “Aphrodite” (recipes, stories and other aphrodisiacs) Spain 1997

      “Daughter of Fortune”, (novel) Spain 1999

      “Portrait in Sepia”, (novel) Spain 2000

      “The City of the Beasts” (young adult novel) Spain 2002

      “My Invented Country”, (novel) Spain 2003

      “Kingdom of the Golden Dragon”, (young adult novel) Spain 2003

      “Forest of the Pygmies”, (young adult novel) 2005

      “Zorro”, (novel) Spain 2005

      “Inés of My Soul”, (novel) Spain 2006

      “The Sum of Our Days”, (novel) Spain 2007

      “The Island Beneath the Sea”, (novel) Spain 2009
       
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