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|  | | | | | | | | Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts. She also currently presents the Radio 2 arts show, The Green Room and The Culture Show on BBC2.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the judging panels for various awards including the Booker-Mann Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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|  | | Programme special: Isabel Allende.
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Listen to Isabel Allende interview
One of the world's best known authors, the Chilean writer Isabel Allende, talks to Mariella Frostrup about her life and work. It is twenty years since her best known book, The House of the Spirits, was first published in English. On the eve of the publication of her new novel Zorro, Isabel Allende talks movingly about her birth-country Chile, the premature death of her daughter Paula, why she always starts a new novel on the 8th of January, and what it meant to her when Pablo Neruda called her a liar!
Programme booklist
1) The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende trans. Magda Bogin
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1857152816
2) Of Love and Shadows - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Black Swan
ISBN: 0552993131
3) Eva Luna - Isabel Allende trans. Margaret Sayers Peden
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140244425
4) The Stories of Eva Luna - Isabel Allende trans. Margaret Sayers Peden
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140145583
5) The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende trans. Margaret Sayers Peden
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 0006546846
6) Paula - Isabel Allende trans. Margaret Sayers Peden
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 0006548563
7) Aphrodite - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 0007205163
8) Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 0006552323
9) Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 0007123019
10) City of the Beasts - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 000714637X
11) My Invented Country: A Memoir - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 000716310X
12) Kingdom of the Golden Dragon - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 0007177488
13) Zorro - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 0007201966
14) Forest of the Pygmies - Isabel Allende
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 0007199635
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