Olga Murray, co-founder of a nonprofit group aiding Nepalese children, is still active, fit and happy possibly because she’s helping others in the world.
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‘The Soul of a Woman’: Isabel Allende mediates on feminism, inequality, aging and love By Serena Chang | 08 March, 2021
Isabel Allende was born in Peru and raised in Chile. She now lives in California. Following a career in journalism and exile in Venezuela, she published her widely acclaimed novel
The House of Spirits in 1982, which paved the way for her to achieve literary stardom. Many of her bestselling novels are centred around the extraordinary lives and experiences of her female protagonists. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and she has been described as the world’s most widely-read Spanish language author.
What’s your earliest memory? My earliest memory is of a man’s white patent shoes and white linen pants stained with blood. That was when my father accidentally dropped my infant brother on the stone pavement. Who are your heroes? Robin Hood was my childhood hero. Today it is, of course, Olga Murray, the founder of Nepal Youth Foundation. She is a 96-year-old young lady who wears tennis shoes and who has saved thousands of Nepalese children from exploitation and starvation. You should google her. What book last changed your thinking? That was a short novel by Mateo García Elizondo,
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