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Chilean author Isabel Allende wins Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize
MADRID: Isabel Allende has won this year’s edition of Spain’s Planeta Prize on Thursday for the sequel to her bestselling fiction debut, four decades after the Chilean novelist introduced readers to the Trueba family’s ghosts, secrets and upheavals. The prestigious award carrying a €1 million ($1.16 million) cash prize went to Allende’s “La hora antes del alba” (The Hour Before Dawn). It follows one of the characters from her acclaimed “The House of the Spirits”, published in 1982. “It’s like winning the Nobel (Prize),” the 84-year-old writer told reporters after the ceremony on Thursday night...
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