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Inner Light in a Time of Darkness: A Conversation with Author
and Poet Alice Walker
Acclaimed Chilean Novelist Isabel Allende on Michele Bachelet,
Immigration and Chile as a "Country of Poets"
Inner Light in a Time of Darkness: A Conversation
with Author and Poet Alice Walker
A renowned author, poet and activist, Alice Walker is perhaps
best known for her book "The Color Purple" for which
she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. She was the first African-American
woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. Alice Walker joins
us in our firehouse studio to talk about her latest work,
"We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For." [includes
rush
transcript]
"The Color Purple" was adapted into an Oscar-nominated
feature length film and has been recently made into a Broadway
musical. She has written many other bestselling books including
"In Search of Our Mothers Gardens", "Possessing
the Secret of Joy" "The Way Forward Is with a Broken
Heart."
Her latest novel is "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting
For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness."
- Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet and
activist.
Acclaimed Chilean Novelist Isabel Allende on Michele
Bachelet, Immigration and Chile as a "Country of Poets"
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is a prolific writer with
15 books in just over two decades. Her works have been translated
to more than 27 languages and have hit best-seller lists around
the world. She joins us to discuss her latest work, "Ines
of My Soul," the centuries-long struggle of the indigenous
people of Chile, the significance of Chilean president Michele
Bachelet, immigration and much more. [includes rush
transcript]
Born in Lima, Peru, in 1942, Isabel Allende traveled the
world as the daughter of a prominent Chilean family. Her uncle
was Chile's President, Salvador Allende. He died on another
September 11th - September 11th 1973 when Augusto Pinochet
seized power in a CIA-backed military coup. Afterwards, Isabel
Allende's family fled to Venezuela where she continued to
work as a journalist.
Her debut novel in 1982, The House of the Spirits, chronicled
four generations of a Chilean family through the tumult of
that country's political history. It is a history that is
intertwined with Allende's own. Her latest book, "Ines
of My Soul" recounts the story of Doña Inés
Suárez, arguably the founding mother of Chile.
- Isabel Allende, prize-winning Chilean novelist. Her latest
book is titled "Ines Of My Soul."
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