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Chilean writer Isabel Allende is the first Spanish writer to receive the honorary medal of the National Book Award (National Prize for Literature of the United States of America), for his contribution to the world. "She is the first author in Spanish to receive this award for the first time and the second to not be born in the United States," said Mexican writer Luis Alberto Urrea, in charge of awarding the prize, during of a ceremony in New York.
In a moving speech, Allende, who emphasizes her foreign life all her life, describes the award as an "unexpected honor" and adds that she "accepts" it with humility, on behalf of millions of people like me who came to this country in search of a new life . "
" The fact that I was rooted in a chronicle provided me with some benefits, most of my writings being from nostalgia, loss and separation, from my incurable desire to belong to a place.I am Chilean and dream, cooking, love and write in spanish "said the writer, who has sold more than 70 million copies of his novels.
In his speech after receiving the award last night, Allende also warned against nationalism, racism, cruelty and fanaticism to "an era where the values and principles that support our civilization are besieged ".
"We live in dark times, friends, times of war The writer, who lives for 30 years in the United States and identifies with the" diaspora "of people looking for a new life, said the writer.
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