Thus, as an adolescent she lived in such widely scattered places as Bolivia, the Middle East, and Europe. Her grandmother in particular was a great storyteller.Īllende's mother eventually remarried, again to a diplomat, whose assignments took the family-mother, stepfather, and two brothers-abroad. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she and her mother moved in with her maternal grandparents, whose presence and personalities exerted a powerful influence over her imagination and development, leaving a deep imprint later expressed in her writing. Her father was a first cousin of Salvador Allende, president of Chile, with whom Isabel and her family maintained a close, long-standing relationship. Allende was born in Lima, Peru, on 2 August 1942 to Chilean diplomat Tomás Allende and his wife Francisca Llona Barros.
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