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This is a timeline of Isabel Allende's life and publications
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1942 Isabel Allende is born
in Lima Perú where her father Tomás Allende, is a diplomatic official of Chile, cousin of Salvador Allende. Her mother Francisca
Llona, “Doña Panchita,” is daughter of Isabel Barros Moreira and Agustín Llona Cuevas. |
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1953-58 Doña Panchita marries Ramón Huidobro, the “tío Ramón,”
diplomatic by career, appointed to Bolivia and Beirut. In Bolivia, Isabel attends to a North American private school, and
in Beirut to an English private school. |
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1962 Isabel marries Miguel Frías. |
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1964-65 She
travels all around Europe; lives in Brussels and Switzerland with her husband and her daughter. |
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1967-74 She
writes for the Paula magazine. She forms part of the first editorial team. She is in charge of the humorous column
“The impertinents” and writes feminist
articles. |
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1945 Doña
Panchita revokes her marriage to Tomás Allende and returns to Chile with her three small children to live in her parentsâ
house in Santiago, where her three children grow under the care of her mother and the grandfather. |
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1958 Isabel returns to Chile as a result of the
Canal de Suez crisis to finish her secondary studies. She meets her future husband, Miguel Frías,
an Engineering student. |
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1959-65 Isabel works for
the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) of the United Nations in Santiago. |
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1963 Her
daughter Paula is born. |
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1985 The House of the Spirits
is translated into English, Editorial Knopf, Translator, Magda Bogin. |
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1988 She marries Willie Gordon on July 17 in San Francisco. They reside in San Rafael, California up to the present. |
1990 In Chile the democracy is established again. Patricio Aylwin
is elected president. After fifteen years of absence, Isabel returns to receive the Gabriela Mistral award. |
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1991 The Infinite Plan is published
in Spain. Paula suffers a Porphyria attack and goes into coma on December 6 in Madrid when Isabel launches The Infinite
Plan, published by Plaza y Jané s in Spanish. |
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1993 The Infinite Plan
is published in English. The House of the Spirits is staged in London in August. On October 22, The House
of the Spirits motion picture is released in Munich, produced by Bernd Eichinger, directed by Billie August with the
following cast: Winona Ryder, Venessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Glen Close, Jeremy Irons and Antonio Banderas. |
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1998 She
is distinguished with the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize granted to “who has contributed to the beauty of the
world”, crowning a long list of international awards in her career. |
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2000 “Portrait in Sepia”
is published in Spain and other European countries with unprecedented success. Isabel is invited to the Oprah show, which
helped her novel “Daughter of Fortune” enormously in the United States.
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2003 “My Invented Country” was published in May 2003. It was featured on the
Bill Moyers show, “NOW“ and extensively covered by the press.
“Kingdom of the Golden Dragon,” the second installment in the trilogy,
was published in Spanish in Fall 2003. |
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2004 Isabel was named Ambassador to Hans Christian Andersen on Sept.
30, 2004 at Rosenberg Castle in Copenhagen. HRH Crown Prince Frederik and Mr. Lars Seeberg, Secretary General of the Hans
Christian Andersen 2005 Foundation present the award.
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1987 She
divorces Miguel Frías. Eva Luna is published in Spain by Plaza y Janés; in English by Knopf, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, translator of the rest of the works by Isabel. |
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1989 She publishes a collection of short stories “Stories
of Eva Luna,” Plaza y Janés, Spain. |
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1992 Paula dies in San Rafael in Isabel
and Willie's house on December 6. |
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1994 Paula
is published in Spanish by Plaza y Janés, in German and Dutch with the subtitle “novel”.
Of Love and Shadows is made into a movie by Betty Kaplan, with Antonio Banderas as leading actor. |
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1997 Aphrodite
is published in Spanish by Plaza y Janés. |
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1999 “Daughter of Fortune”
is published in Spain and soon translated into English. This is a year of book tours for Isabel. In February her son Nicolas
and Lori Barra marry. |
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2002 “The City of Beasts”,
the first installment in a trilogy for young adults, was published in Fall 2002 to rave reviews. |
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2004 “Kingdom of the Golden Dragon,” was published in
English in May 2004 to coincide with the city of Seattle's choice of Isabel Allende as the “Author that Everyone Should
Read.” Isabel spent a week in Seattle celebrating this great honor. |
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2004 “The House of the Spirits” was
chosen by German readers to be number 13 among the top 100 favorite books. “Paula” was number 80. |
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2005 The third and last installment of the trilogy, “Forest of the Pygmies”
was published in 2005.
“Zorro” was published in Spain in Spring 2005. It was extensively covered by the press and
met with rave reviews. |
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Give credit where credit is due.
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An inspiring timeline curtesy of Allende's personal website www.isabelallende.com
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1973-74 She contributes to the children magazine Mampato, in Santiago, and later she briefly directed it.She
publishes two stories for children, The grandmother Panchita and Lauchas y lauchones and a compilation of her humorous
articles of Civilice a su troglodita |
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1970-75 Isabel works for the television
channels 13 and 7 in Santiago. She has a humorous program and another one of interviews. Her programs enjoy great popularity. |
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1975 Isabel and her family move to
Venezuela; they stay there for thirteen years. She contributes to the newspaper of Caracas, El Nacional. |
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1979-82 She works as administrator
for the Marroco College, a secondary school in Caracas. |
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1981 When she receives the news
that her 99 year old grandfather is dying, she began to write him a letter that would turn into the manuscript of The House
of the Spirits. |
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1982 The House of the Spirits
is published, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona. |
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1970 Salvador Allende is elected first socialist president of
Chile. The stepfather of Isabel, Ramón Huidobro is appointed ambassador to Argentina.
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1972 Her stage play El embajador
is performed in Santiago. |
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1973 On September 11 there
is a coup in Chile, lead by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Salvador Allende dies; it is suspected that he was assassinated.The
military government spreads the news that he committed suicide. |
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1978 Temporary separation from Miguel
Frías. She lives in Spain for two months, then returned to her marriage. |
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1984 La gorda de porcelana
is published, Ediciones Alfaguara, Madrid, short humorous story written in 1974 and submitted for printing in 1975. Of
Love and Shadows is published, Plaza y Janés.
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