Name: Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (The Modern Library Classics)
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Author: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780812967074

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Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (The Modern Library Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Preface by

Isabel Allende

Translated by

Margaret Sayers Peden

Publisher

Modern Library

Author

Isabel Allende

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

246

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0812967070

ISBN13

9780812967074

Edition No.

Synopsis "Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (The Modern Library Classics) "

Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, and Luisa Valenzuela. The resulting book is a literary tour de force, stories written by women in this hemisphere that speak to cultures throughout the world. In her Foreword, Isabel Allende states, "This anthology is so valuable; it lays open the emotions of writers who, in turn, speak for others still shrouded in silence."

Isabel Allende

(Preface by)

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Isabel Allende was born in 1942, in Peru, spent her early childhood in Chile and lived in various places during her adolescence and youth. After the military coup in 1973 in Chile, she went into exile in Venezuela and since 1987 has lived as an immigrant in California. She defines herself as an "eternal foreigner."

She began her literary career in journalism, in Chile and Venezuela. In 1982 her first novel, The House of the Spirits, became one of the legendary titles of Latin American literature. It was followed by many others, all of which have been international successes. Her work has been translated into forty languages and has sold more than seventy million copies, making her the best-selling Spanish-language writer.

She has received more than sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Literature Prize in 2010, the Hans Christian Andersen Award in Denmark, in 2012, for her trilogy "Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar" and the Medal of Freedom in the United States, the highest civilian honor, in 2014. In 2018, Isabel Allende became the first Spanish-language writer awarded the medal of honor of the National Book Award, in the United States for her significant contribution to the world of letters.

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