Creative Writing Program to honor Isabel Allende next spring

Chilean writer Isabel Allende will receive the 3^rd annual Lawrence Sanders Award from the Creative Writing Program at FIU on March 5 at Biscayne Bay Campus.

Photo: Courtesy of the Creative Writing Program.

The award-winning scribe joins a growing group of illustrious honorees that includes Pat Conroy (Prince of Tides) and Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent). The award carries a $5,000 prize supported by a grant from the Lawrence A. Sanders Foundation of Boca Raton.

“We give the Sanders Award every year to a writer of fiction whose work reflects both the highest literary merit and popular appeal,” said Les Standiford, the program’s director. “Ms. Allende more than qualifies on those accounts.”

If you are not familiar with Allende’s work you are in luck: FIU Theatre will mount a production of the writer’s The House of Spirits later this fall. The show will debut at the Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center at Modesto A. Maidique Campus on Nov. 11 and run through Nov. 20.

Show times are Wednesday-Saturday at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

Admission ranges between $5-$15. For tickets and more information, visit LivetheArts.com.