Author Isabel Allende receives award

From: La Voz de Colorado | Date: October 21, 1998 | Copyright information

La Voz de Colorado
10-21-1998
Author Isabel Allende receives award

The 1998 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize -- on of the largest prizes in the arts -- was awarded to Isabel Allende, the Latin American author whose vivid prose evokes the tumultuous social and political heritage of South America. She received a silver medallion and approximately $200,000 at an awards ceremony Oct. 13 in New York

Allende becomes the fifth recipient of the Gish Prize, for which there is no competition and for which no one may apply. Previous recipients are singer/songwriter Bob Dylan (1997), artist/director Robert ...