Women: Recados
AUTHOR
Gabriela Mistral
EDITED BY
Isabel Allende and Jacqueline Nanfito
Exquisite word portraits of women by one of the past century's greatest women writers.
These recados—brief, descriptive essays—paint vivid pictures of some of the most extraordinary women of Mistral's generation—and give us insights into Mistral herself. In these pieces, Mistral infuses the traditionally objective essay form with the intimate and subjective, thereby creating an alternate space for women intellectuals in the public sphere. Her subjects range from her own beloved mother to well-known writers such as Victoria Ocampo and Emily Brontë, artists such as Chilean sculptor Laura Rodig and dancer Isadora Duncan, and to topics including feminism, women and politics, and women and education.
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Isabel Allende is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than seventy-seven million books. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Since then, she has authored more than twenty-six bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including Daughter of Fortune, Island Beneath the Sea, Paula, and The Wind Knows My Name.
In 1996, following the death of her daughter, Paula, Allende established a charitable foundation in her honor. The foundation has awarded grants to more than one hundred nonprofits worldwide, delivering life-changing care to hundreds of thousands of women and girls.
In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Allende lives in California.
Jacqueline Nanfito, Associate Professor of Spanish (Latin American Literature and Culture) is also a faculty member of the interdisciplinary programs of Women's and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. She is the author of several articles in Latin American literary journals, and has published several books on Latin American women writers: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, El sueño: Cartographies of Knowledge and the Self; Gabriela Mistral: On Women, a compilation and translation of selected prose writings about women by the Chilean Nobel Prize Poet, Gabriela Mistral; the translation of the short short stories (microcuentos) by award winning Chilean female author, Pía Barros, Marks Beneath the Skin/Signos bajo la piel; the translation of an anthology of short short fiction (microcuentos) by Chilean female authors denouncing violence towards women, edited by Pía Barros, ¡BASTA! + de 100 mujeres contra la violencia de genero/ENOUGH! 100+ Women Against Gender Violence; the translation of 70 poems by the Chilean Jewish author and human rights activist, Marjorie Agosín, The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas the translation of Agosin's prose poems about Anne Frank, Anne: An Imagining of the Life of Anne Frank; and the novel, Fish Hair Woman, from English into Spanish, Mujer Pelo Pez, by the award winning Filipina female author, Merlinda Bobis.
Gabriela Mistral (1889—1957) is the only woman from Latin America to win the Nobel Prize. A native of Chile, she spent the final years of her life in the United States.