Isabelle Allende turns 80 and announces a special edition of House of Spirits.

On August 2 this year, Isabelle Allende, the most read and best-selling current author in Spanish, turns 80 in a great state of literary creativity and vitality, writing novels that begins with a ritual known to all her readers, every January. 8. – and accompanied by family and friends. His latest novelViolet”, published simultaneously in Spanish and English, has been at the top of the list of best-selling books for several months and has managed to captivate both its ordinary readers and the new generation that discovers it.

She was born in 1942 in Peru, spent her early childhood in Chile, and lived in various places during her teenage and young adulthood. After the 1973 military coup in Chile, he went into exile in Venezuela, and has lived as an immigrant in California since 1987. It is defined as “foreign eternal”.

Isabelle Allende He has published 25 books, all of which have been international successes. His works have been translated into forty-two languages. He has received over sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2010, the Hans Christian Andersen Prize in Denmark in 2012 for his Eagle and Jaguar Memories trilogy, and the US Medal of Freedom. , the highest civilian award, in 2014 In 2018 Isabelle Allende She became the first Spanish-language writer to receive the National Book Award Medal of Honor for her major contribution to the world of literature.

HOUSE OF SPIRIT

In 1982 he published his first novel “House of Spirits”, which has become one of the mythical names of Latin American literature and has conquered millions of people around the world. Isabelle Allende tells in this classic story about the political, economic and social transformations that have affected Chile over the past century. Through her clever storytelling and literary prowess rooted in magical realism, the author has created a world where the mundane and the fantastic coexist, and this has left an indelible mark on the memory of her millions of readers. The success was so great that the work was filmed with a star cast in the person of Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons or Antonio Banderas.

This is the year in which Isabelle turning 80 is also the 40th anniversary of the publication of this novel, which he published in October 1982 in Plaza & Janés, his publishing label ever since. Always with the eternal Carmen Balcells as her literary agent, the legendary editor Mario Lacruz was responsible for commissioning for Plaza & Janés this novel that changed her life.

This is how the Chilean writer recalled this in her book.Paulawhen he received the first printed copy: “It is impossible to describe the emotion of that moment, suffice it to say that I never experienced it again with other books, with translations into languages ​​that I thought were already dead, or with adaptations for cinema or theater, this copy”House of Spirits”with a pink stripe and a woman with green hair touched my heart deeply.”

Also mythical in the publishing sector is the welcome dinner that Carmen Balcells hosted in Barcelona to introduce her to the public, as Isabelle herself also recalls in “Paula”: “Carmen threw a feast to introduce me to the Spanish intelligentsia, but I was so frightened that I spent a good part of the evening hiding in the bathroom. That night in her house, for the first and only time, I saw a kilogram of Iranian caviar and soup spoons at the disposal of diners, completely unjustified Pharaonic extravagance, because I was a flea anyway, and she did not suspect then about the happy trajectory that this was an affair, but she must have been touched by my noble surname and my provincial appearance.”

Penguin Random House is launching an anniversary edition that will include an unpublished foreword written by the author and will be published October 13 in Spain, Latin America, and in Spanish in the United States in print, e-book, and audiobook formats. “This book hit me like a typhoon: it lifted me into the air, shook me to the bone, pulled me out of a mediocre existence and launched me into an open horizon of endless possibilities. In the forty years since then, I have suffered loss, pain and grief, I have changed countries and husbands, I have also accumulated many successes that usually upset people, but nothing has made me lose my center, because writing is my compass. Everything that hurts me eventually turns into the alchemy of literature.”

The editors wanted to remember this original edition by using the iconic original cover image created by Jordi Sánchez. The same image is used in the Debolsillo edition, which has been available in bookstores in Spain, Latin America and the US since this year.

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