Isabel Allende Wins €1 Million Planeta Prize for Dictatorship Sequel
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende won Spain’s 2026 Planeta Prize, receiving €1 million for The Hour Before Dawn, a sequel to The House of the Spirits. The novel follows Alba as she faces the aftermath of imprisonment and torture under Chile’s dictatorship; Allende said its themes of authoritarianism and threatened democracy feel especially timely.
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About Isabel Allende
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Everything about Isabel Allende →- Occupation
- voice actor, screenwriter, children's writer, novelist
- Citizenship
- United States, Chile
- Born
- August 2, 1942
- Website
- https://isabelallende.com