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Isabel Allende, Chilean to the core, has lived outside Chile for over 40 years. And for over four decades she has devoted herself to literature, of which she is a leading exponent: 25 books in her assets, translated into over 42 languages and with at least 75 million copies sold worldwide. A monster of Spanish literature. “If I hadn’t had to migrate, I would simply not be a writer,” she admits, but she would have continued to be a journalist in her country.