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Isabel Allende Writes Stories of Passion Sandburg Award recipient for 2013, Isabel Allende, tells the stories of women and men who live with passionate commitment -- to love, to their world, to an ideal. Isabel Allende will receive the Chicago Public Library and Chicago Public Library Foundation's 2013 Carl Sandburg Literary Award for fiction on October 23 at The Forum on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Carl Sandburg Literary Award is presented to an author whose significant body of work has enhanced the public’s awareness of the written word. “I was completely surprised,” said Allende in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. “This is a very prestigious award given to very talented writers, mostly Americans, and my books are all translations (from Spanish to English).” As a novelist and memoirist, Isabel Allende writes of passionate lives, including her own. Born into a Chilean family with political ties, she went into exile in the United States in the 1970s -- an event that, she believes, created her as a writer. Her voice blends sweeping narrative with touches of magical realism; her stories are romantic. Her novels include The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna, Ines of My Soul and La Suma de los Dias (The Sum of Our Days) and her newly published bestseller, Maya’s Notebook. And an adventure trilogy for young readers, City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies. As a memoirist, she has written about her vision of her lost Chile, in My Invented Country, and movingly tells the story of her life to her own daughter, in Paula. Her book Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses memorably linked two sections of the bookstore that don't see much crossover: erotica and cookbooks. Just as vital is her is role as a social justice leader. The Isabel Allende Foundation works with nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chile to empower and protect women and girls putting them on the road to social and economic justice. You can see and meet Isabel on October 23 alongside journalist and author, Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Blindside, Boomerang) who receives the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for non-fiction. Isabel and Michael will appear in conversation with National Public Radio host and critically acclaimed author Scott Simon. Christine Sneed (Little Known Facts) receives the 21st Century Award presented to an emerging Chicago author. Visit our website for event details and ticket information.
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