Isabel Allende

And what you were saying just reminded me of something, and maybe you'll want me to read this to you.

So in Inside the Box, I spent a bunch of time with Isabel Allende, who I think is one of the greatest living writers.

And she sent me an email that relates to this, that she said I could share if I ever had the chance.

Can I look through my email and read this to you? Okay, hold on.

Mark also talked about what she called using your little mind.

So she liked the anecdote of Maya Angelou, who would, because she wanted to focus so much, she would go to like this motel and have them take even the art off the walls so she wouldn't be distracted.

But then she would also break for crossword puzzles or Isabel Allende would break for beating.

And that's okay.

And there's other authors that use that style.

But I think how this got started was these authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gigi Marquez, and Isabel Allende and these authors started this, made it, or at least made it famous, this type of literature.

And it is a way to bring tough topics in an artistic way to the screen.

And it's, beautiful and lyrical and there's all this beautiful imagery and writing, but yet they're telling you real tough things that happened in this part of the world and it's political.

He's one of my favorite fictional characters.

I picked up the Isabella Allende book that you're reading last year at a used bookstore and absolutely loved it.

I highly recommend you track down Zorro year one if you haven't already.

the comic by Matt Wagner and Francesco Francovia that mostly adapts Allende's origin for that character.

I'm going to say an author and then tell you a story, short story about this.

So any book by Isabel Allende has always had a ton of meaning for me in my life.

One of her most recent books that I'll mention is Violeta, which takes you through the entire 19th century history.

of Chile from like, you know, the pandemic in 1900s to the pandemic we just experienced and tells you the life of a woman who has major economic agency and is still real and still struggles with relationships and struggles with raising her kids and struggles with her job.

So Isabel Allende also has another book called The House of Spirits, which is like her previous generation iteration of this similar type of theme.

But what I love about Isabel Allende is she writes stories that have depth about the real lives of women.

And I would say that one thing I do when I travel, this is my little mini story, one thing I do when I travel abroad is I always go into local bookstores and I look for books written by local female authors.

And so I have this collection in my home of hard to find books.

Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende has been awarded Spain's €1 million Premio Planeta for an unpublished follow-up to her first novel, The House of the Spirits.

She submitted the work under the pen name Luz Ventura and used the fictional title Los Que Faltan.

The winning book, titled La Hora Antes del Alba, revisits the characters from Allende's 1982 novel.

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La escritora chilena Isabel Allende recibió ayer en Barcelona el premio Planeta.

El galardón, dotado con un millón de euros, se otorgó a la novela titulada La hora antes del alba, que es la continuación de La casa de los espíritus, publicada en 1982 y considerada la obra cumbre de la novelista.

El Planeta llegó así a su edición número setenta y cinco.

Lo han ganado escritores como Javier Cercas, Carmen Posadas o Mario Vargas Llosa y ahora Isabel Allende, que en su discurso dijo algo curioso.

Nunca me había presentado a un concurso para evitar la humillación de quedar a la cola.

Así que esto es muy importante para mí.