I wasn’t thinking that I was giving a voice to women. I had found my perfect niche, and that’s how I began writing. I found a job in a feminine, very avant-garde magazine that started to deal with feminism early on when it wasn’t an issue in Chile yet. There were no women there, so I never thought that I would be a writer but I could be a journalist. The rest were just males the great boom of Latin American literature was a bunch of men. I like to write and never thought that I could be a writer because the only women writers that I knew about were all some old British spinsters that had died and had committed suicide. Mitzi Rapkin: Do you think there’s anything about just finding a voice for women that led you to journalism? Allende said she grew up seeing women with little agency in her family and her community in Chile, but in her early 20s she started reading feminist books. This week on First Draft, Isabel Allende joins Mitzi to discuss her latest book A Long Petal of the Sea, out now from Ballantine.
Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in. First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts.
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