Bestselling Chilean-American author Isabel Allende is to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Fpreedom by Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on 24 November. Allende is one of 19 individuals chosen for their especially meritorious contributions to American life.
Allende has sold 65m copies of her 21 books in 35 languages, the White House has announced. The author of novels including the family saga The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune and Portrait, she has also written four volumes of memoir, a collection of stories and a series of childrens novels. Allende, the White House noted in its announcement, has already received many awards, including Chiles National prize for literature and she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.
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