Isabel Allende on Fiction and Feminism

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🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The bestselling author describes her creative process and explains why she was always determined to have a career.

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
0:11.9	Share New Here with the Young Professionals in your life. a meaningful career on your own terms.
0:12.8	Share new here with the young professionals in your life.
0:15.9	Listen for free wherever you got your podcasts.
0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I'm Allison Beard.
0:34.8	In every issue of our magazine, we publish a feature
0:37.3	we called Life's Work.
0:38.9	It's an interview with someone who's been wildly successful
0:41.6	outside the traditional corporate world.
0:44.4	For a May edition, I spoke with the author Isabel Ayende.
0:48.7	Her first novel, The House of the Spirits, she wrote at age 39 while living in Venezuela as a political
0:54.8	exile from Chile. It began as a letter to her dying grandfather and became an
1:00.0	international bestseller. She's since written more than 20 books, the latest of
1:05.2	which is the Japanese lover. Here are some excerpts from our conversation.
1:11.0	You always start your novels on the same date that you started the House of the Spirits.
1:17.0	Why do you do that?
1:18.0	At the beginning, I suppose it was superstition because the first book had been so lucky and it was like a lucky day.
1:24.8	But now it's just discipline.
1:26.7	I need to organize my life.
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