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Isabel Allende Research
Isabel Allende Research
Allende
By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide
Dates: August 2, 1942 -
Occupation: novelist, writer, journalist; niece of Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens
Known for: novels using magic realism
About Isabel Allende:
Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru. Her Chilean diplomat father and her mother divorced and she
lived with her mother and grandparents. She worked first as a secretary and then as a reporter in
print, on television and in movie documentaries.
After the overthrow and assassination in 1973 of her uncle, Salvador Allende, president of Chile,
Isabel Allende and her husband and children left for safety in Venezuela.
It was in her exile that she began to write The House of the Spirits, her first novel, which was based
on her own family and the politics of Chile.
She continued to produce novels based in part on her own experience, often focusing on the
experience of women, weaving myth and realism tillsammans. She has lectured and
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Hugo Chávez
President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013
For other people named Hugo Chávez, see Hugo Chávez (disambiguation).
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías[b] (; Spanish:[ˈuɣorafaˈelˈtʃaβesˈfɾi.as]ⓘ; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician, revolutionary, and military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012.
Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer. After becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system based on the Puntofijo Pact,[1] he founded the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s. Chávez led
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The Wandering Spirits of Isabel Allende
By Adán Griego
Curator of Latin American and Iberian Collections
© 2004 Stanford Libraries
Like many of her fictional characters, Isabel Allende has spent her life traveling to and living in many places. She was born to diplomat parents in Lima in 1942, and when not in her Chilean homeland, lived in Europe, Lebanon, and Bolivia. Following the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende, Chile’s president and Isabel’s uncle, she lived in exile in Caracas for thirteen years. Since 1987, when she met and married San Francisco lawyer William Gordon, she has lived and worked in Northern California.
Allende’s life in letters reflects the migrations of her personal life. It was from her Caracas exile that she began, on January 8, 1981, writing a “spiritual letter” to her dying grandfather. This text soon became her debut novel, La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits), and that date has become