![]() Īllende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. ![]() President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits ( La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts ( La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. ![]() ![]() Isabel Angélica Allende Llona ( American Spanish: ( listen) born in Lima, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. ![]()
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