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Isabel Allende wins Spain’s €1 million Premio Planeta under a pseudonym
Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende has been awarded Spain’s one-million-euro Premio Planeta for an unpublished follow-up to her first novel, “The House of the Spirits.” She submitted the work under the pen name Luz Ventura and used the fictional title “Los que faltan.” The winning book, titled “La hora antes del alba,” revisits the characters from Allende’s 1982 novel. It centers on Alba, the granddaughter of Esteban Trueba and Clara del Valle, as she struggles to heal after being imprisoned and tortured during Pinochet’s rule, according to Reuters. Allende stated that this sequel would…
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