The reception of Isabel Allende’s novels in Albania

The present paper aims to highlight the reception of Isabel Allende's works between the press and the criticism as an aspect that proves the world's literary spread, as well as the assessments made in the Albanian press, as well as the critical writings that reveal the literary values of the novels of Isabel Allende. Allende is one of the most prominent Latin American writers of the contemporary literature, and is the most widely read Chilean writer in spanish language in the second half of the twentieth century. Her novels have been translated into albanian language and have been welcomed by the albanian readers, since her first novel known as Allende’s masterpiece, The house of spirits, to the latest novel. Moreover, this paper will provide an overview of the impact of Allendes’s novels in albanian press but also in albanian literary forums.