Name: Women
SKU: 25331293
Price: 615.00 TWD
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Author: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9781893996090

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Physical Book

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Author

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

177

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1893996093

ISBN13

9781893996090

Synopsis "Women "

Exquisite word portraits of women by one of the past century's greatest women writers.These recados—brief, descriptive essays—paint vivid pictures of some of the most extraordinary women of Mistral's generation—and give us insights into Mistral herself. In these pieces, Mistral infuses the traditionally objective essay form with the intimate and subjective, thereby creating an alternate space for women intellectuals in the public sphere. Her subjects range from her own beloved mother to well-known writers such as Victoria Ocampo and Emily Brontë, artists such as Chilean sculptor Laura Rodig and dancer Isadora Duncan, and to topics including feminism, women and politics, and women and education.Gabriela Mistral (1889—1957) is the only woman from Latin America to win the Nobel Prize. A native of Chile, she spent the final years of her life in the United States.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende was born in 1942, in Peru, spent her early childhood in Chile and lived in various places during her adolescence and youth. After the military coup in 1973 in Chile, she went into exile in Venezuela and since 1987 has lived as an immigrant in California. She defines herself as an "eternal foreigner."

She began her literary career in journalism, in Chile and Venezuela. In 1982 her first novel, The House of the Spirits, became one of the legendary titles of Latin American literature. It was followed by many others, all of which have been international successes. Her work has been translated into forty languages and has sold more than seventy million copies, making her the best-selling Spanish-language writer.

She has received more than sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Literature Prize in 2010, the Hans Christian Andersen Award in Denmark, in 2012, for her trilogy "Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar" and the Medal of Freedom in the United States, the highest civilian honor, in 2014. In 2018, Isabel Allende became the first Spanish-language writer awarded the medal of honor of the National Book Award, in the United States for her significant contribution to the world of letters.

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Gabriela Mistral

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Gabriela Mistral (Vicuña, Elqui Valley 1889 - New York, 1957) Pseudonym of Lucila de María Godoy Alcayaga. She was a poet, diplomat, and teacher from an early age. The publication of Desolation brought Mistral international recognition and prestige, making her considered one of the greatest promises of Latin American literature and a leading figure in Chilean and Hispanic-American literature of the 20th century. In 1945, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature and, only six years later, the National Prize for Literature.

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