Isabel Allende

Person · Open Library

Born

2 August 1942

Works

103

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Film & TV

Acting · Lima, Peru

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer. She is best known for novels such as "The House of the Spirits" (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and "City of the Beasts" (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002).

Known for

• Isabel Allende: A Writer in Exile — Self - Writer2025
• La Revuelta — Self - Guest2024
• 45 minutos con — Self2023
• Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir — Self2021
• Poder & verdad — Self2021
• La entrevista de — Self2019
• The Power of the Heart — Self2014
• Jane the Virgin — Isabel Allende2014
• A Fierce Green Fire — Narrator (voice)2013
• Santiago Files — Self2011

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Chile

Active from

1942

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

956

Total plays

21,425

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The<i>Gaia</i>mission

   · 2016 · cited 6,413x

2. The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

   · 2020 · cited 5,771x

3. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

   · 2017 · cited 5,582x

4. [49] Determination of carbonyl content in oxidatively modified proteins

   · 1990 · cited 4,716x

5. THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

   · 2009 · cited 4,692x

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Quotes

• “Because she lived under the big umbrella of my grandfather and she didn't have any education - she had three kids, had been abandoned by her husband, had no money - it was a horrible life. The only way she could get attention from her father or anybody else was by being sick. She didn't do it consciously. As a child I felt impotent and guilty because I felt that I couldn't help her in any way.”
• “Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.”
• “It would have been much better if I had started [writing novels] at 19. But I couldn't. I had to support a family, I wasn't ready. And I think I needed to lose my country to start writing, because The House of the Spirits is an attempt to recreate the country I had lost, the family I had lost.”
• “The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don’t feel I belong anywhere. I’m an immigrant.”
• “I imagined the structure of the novel like a braid. My job was to blend three strands evenly and neatly. Each piece of the braid represented one of the stories. The characters were very different but they had something in common: they were emotionally wounded by events of their past.”
• “I never try to give a message in my fiction. When I see that an author is trying to preach to me in a novel, I feel insulted. If I find a message, it should come between the lines; I will discover it if it resonates with me. The ideas, feelings and experiences of the author appear unavoidably in the writing.”

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