Isabel Allende Live Stream: Feminist Icon Speaks (Online)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Isabelle Allende, in Conversation
with Sara Guyer, Dean of Arts & Humanities, UC Berkeley

Literary legend, feminist icon, and social activist Isabel Allende will be joined by Dean Sara Guyer of the Division of Arts & Humanities for a conversation that spans Allende’s lifetime of work, from her new novel My Name is Emilia del Valle to creating art in authoritarian times. This event is presented by UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center in celebration of 25 years as an incubator, nexus, & advocate of the arts on & off campus. *The in-person event is sold out, however Allende has allowed to share the conversation live streamed for the public.

A native of Chile, Allende was forced into exile following the assassination of her uncle, President Salvador Allende. Since then, she has written over 27 books, including The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune, Ines of My Soul, Island Beneath the Sea, Maya’s Notebook, The Japanese Lover, Ripper, and In the Midst of Winter. Allende’s non-fiction books include the memoirs Paula and The Sum of Our Days, as well as The Soul of a Woman, a meditation on Allende’s feminist roots. Chosen as one of Amazon’s best non-fiction books of the year, The Soul of a Woman is a work that Allende hopes will “light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine.” Her book, The Wind Knows My Name was named to NPR‘s Books We Love.

Allende is the founder of the Isabel Allende Foundation, which promotes and preserves the fundamental rights of women and children to be empowered and protected. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, and has received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.

More information at arts.berkeley.edu

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