Famous Writers
There are many world famous writers well known in South America, Spain, Mexico, ect.
Isabel Allenda: She is one of the most celebrated literacy persons in Latin America(Latin America is the same place as South America). Allenda was born in 1942 in Lima Peru; However raised in Chile. She traveled extensively through out her youth; However makes permanent Decision in California. Allenda is the first successful woman novelist of South America who makes a living of her writing. She was inspired to write from her History, Culture, Family Legends. She can speak well in English and Spanish; however chooses to write only in Spanish. Allenda books have been translated in more then 30 different languages! Allenda books have been put into plays, operas, and Ballets. Also introduced into the American Academy Allenda credits part of her storytelling ability to her journalistic experience: "Journalism has helped me to understand that a book is just a stack of pages bunched together until somebody picks it up and reads it. It's important to me that the reader pick up the book and immediately be grabbed by the story, that the reader not have to struggle through 60 pages before getting involved." All of her books are award winning.
Some of her books...
Paula (1994)
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (1997)
are both memoirs of her own childhood
Heartbreaking account of the lengthy illness and death of her daughter Paula in 1991.
Isabel Allenda: She is one of the most celebrated literacy persons in Latin America(Latin America is the same place as South America). Allenda was born in 1942 in Lima Peru; However raised in Chile. She traveled extensively through out her youth; However makes permanent Decision in California. Allenda is the first successful woman novelist of South America who makes a living of her writing. She was inspired to write from her History, Culture, Family Legends. She can speak well in English and Spanish; however chooses to write only in Spanish. Allenda books have been translated in more then 30 different languages! Allenda books have been put into plays, operas, and Ballets. Also introduced into the American Academy Allenda credits part of her storytelling ability to her journalistic experience: "Journalism has helped me to understand that a book is just a stack of pages bunched together until somebody picks it up and reads it. It's important to me that the reader pick up the book and immediately be grabbed by the story, that the reader not have to struggle through 60 pages before getting involved." All of her books are award winning.
Some of her books...
Paula (1994)
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (1997)
are both memoirs of her own childhood
Heartbreaking account of the lengthy illness and death of her daughter Paula in 1991.