Biography
Isabel Allende since childhood knew that he was capable of more than the execution of the roles of his wife and mother, who were prepared by her. She deserved recognition as a journalist and writer, whose works are read throughout the world.Childhood and youth
Isabel Alende was born on August 2, 1942 in Peru. Father Celebrity was a cousin Salvador Allenda, who served as president of Chile for 3 years. Being a diplomat, Thomas Alende worked as a secretary in the Chilean Embassy in Lima, where the early years of the biography of the writer took place. In the same place her younger brothers Juan and Francisco born.
Soon the family broke up, and the mother Isabel, Francisk, was forced to return to Chile and settle in the house of their parents together with three children. According to the memories of the author, there did not have any rights and livelihoods. All decisions took the grandfather of the celebrity and his sons, and the grandmother only had the right to vote. Even then, looking at Mom, Allenda realized that he did not want the same fate as her. This formed in her interest in the ideas of feminism.
Soon, Francisis married Ramon Widobro - also a diplomat, with whom she often had to move. In his own example, knowing that the woman in their society is difficult without a spouse, she dreamed of a happy family life for her daughter and raised her submissive wife and a caring mother. But the future writer has already demonstrated the qualities of character that was considered to be peculiar to men, which caused concern. She was driven by doctors and even excluded from school.
Adult, the girl remained faithful to his ideals. In adolescence, she was fascinated by the literature, read the books of Latin American, Russian and English writers. She was fascinated by strong female characters, which she admired and inspired, which created the soil for subsequent creativity.
Career and creativity
When celebrities were 18 years old, she became an partner of the crime - helped her friend to make an abortion that at that time was considered forbidden. This event has become the last straw for the writer, because she realized that if a woman could not dispose of her body, then she had no right.Anger Alende found a way to pass through journalism. She became the employee of the first in Chile feminist magazine "Paula". The girls who worked in the publication challenged the society and began writing about such forbidden topics as abortion, marital infidelity and domestic violence.
But the familiar lifestyle of the celebrity was broken when in 1973 a military coup was happened in the country. She was forced to escape from Chile in Venezuela, having a book Eduardo Galeano and the instructions of Pablo Neruda, whom she once managed to interview. The poet, whose poems was always read on Isabel, advised her to become a writer to direct the rich imagination into the right direction.
Take advantage of the Council of the idol Allend could only a few years later. First of time, her family had to be difficult, she could not find a job as a journalist and was forced to get a job in the school administration.
The event that pushed the author to sit for writing the first novel was the news about the ambulance's death of her grandfather. Not having the opportunity to return home to say goodbye to him, the woman decided to write him a letter. In it, she told the story of his family and splashed emotions, accumulated during the forced departure.
When the writer finished work, it realized that the message occupies almost 500 pages. Then she decided that he could turn him into a novel. But the Latin American publications refused to cooperate with Isabel, because she was a woman and had no effect. However, the celebrity did not surrender and sent the creation to Spain, where he soon received a positive response.
After the release of the book, the named "House of the Spirit", on Allend, collapsed world glory. The novel was translated into several languages, and in 1993 - was shielded. The main roles in the film of the same name performed Meril Streep, Jeremy Irons, Antonio Banderas and Winon Rider.
Success motivated Isabel to continue to create, and in the future, her bibliography was replenished with such works as "Eva Luna", "Inez's Soul", "Japanese lover" and "outside the winter" ("on the other side of winter"). Each of them differs from the other and contains a part of the personal history of the author.
Personal life
With his first husband, Migesel Frias, the celebrity met in his youth. Two children were born in marriage - the daughter of Paula and the son of Nicholas. But during a forced relocation to Venezuela, the spouses moved away from each other and subsequently divorced.
After that, the celebrity met with writer William Gordon, for whom he later married. Together they survived a lot of difficulties, including the death of the daughter of the writer in 1992. She frankly told about this tragic event in Paula's book, recognized as one of her best works.
But even despite the experienced adversity, William and Isabel divorced. Although many convicted the author, she proved that after 70 years, it's not too late to arrange a personal life. In 2019, a woman played a wedding with a lawyer Roger Kukras.
Isabel Alende now
Now the celebrity continues to write, glad the public with his work. In March 2021, she released a new book, the name of the "Women's Soul". On a significant event, the writer told on the "Instagram" page, sharing a photo of the cover. And soon after that, the premiere of a film based on the biography of the author took place.Bibliography
- 1982 - "House of spirits"
- 1984 - "Porcelain Bbush"
- 1984 - "Love and Darkness"
- 1987 - "Eva Moon"
- 1989 - "History of Eva Moon"
- 1991 - "Endless Plan"
- 1994 - "Paula"
- 1997 - "Aphrodite"
- 1998 - "Fortune's daughter"
- 2000 - "Portrait in brown tones"
- 2002 - "City of Besti"
- 2003 - "My invented country"
- 2003 - "The Kingdom of Golden Dragons"
- 2004 - "Forest Pygmyev"
- 2005 - Zorro
- 2006 - "Inez's soul of mine"
- 2007 - "Amount of Days"
- 2009 - "Island in the depths of the sea"
- 2011 - "Mayi Diary"
- 2014 - "Game in the" Rutter ""
- 2015 - "Japanese lover"
- 2017 - "Outside Winter"
- 2019 - "Long Petal of the Sea"
- 2021 - "Women's Soul"