[The ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more than the blood of a martyr Lupe Fiasco] Friday, November 28, 2014 In a holiday special, we spend the hour with Isabel Allende, one of Latin America’s and the United States’ greatest novelists. Just this week she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Allende is the author of 20 books, including The House of the Spirits, Paula and Daughter of Fortune. Her latest is a mystery novel titled Ripper. Her books have been translated into 35 languages, sold close to 60 million copies around the world. Allende now lives in California, but she was born in Peru in 1942 and traveled the world as the daughter of a Chilean diplomat. Her father’s first cousin was Salvador Allende, Chile’s president from 1970 until Sept. 11, 1973, when Augusto Pinochet seized power in a CIA-backed military coup. Salvador Allende died in the palace that day. Isabel Allende would later flee from her native Chile to Venezuela. In April, Amy Goodman conducted a public interview with Isabel Allende at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in New York shortly after the publication of Ripper. In this wide-ranging conversation, Allende discusses her literary career and her memories of Chile before and during the coup. democracynow.org/2014/11/28/novelist_isabel_allende_on_her_literary?autostart=true
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:07:14 +0000