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Isabel Allende Wins €1 Million Planeta Prize for Dictatorship Sequel
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende won Spain’s 2026 Planeta Prize, receiving €1 million for The Hour Before Dawn, a sequel to The House of the Spirits. The novel follows Alba as she faces the aftermath of imprisonment and torture under Chile’s dictatorship; Allende said its themes of authoritarianism and threatened democracy feel especially timely.
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Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta, is a Spanish mass media conglomerate operating in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. It is headquartered in Madrid.
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- Madrid
- Inception
- 1949
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