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...NATIVE Chilean Isabel Allende's third novel, Eva Luna, takes us away from the military dictatorship and riot police of her previous works and into a world where guerrilla fighters, African saints and women who sleep in coffins dominate...
Harvard's Nieman Foundation this month presented its highest honor to Monica Gonzalez, a noted journalist and critic of the Chilean government who was almost prevented from leaving her country to receive the award...
...foundation announced earlier this summer that Gonzalez had won the $1000 Louis M. Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism. A four-member selection panel honored her for unbiased reporting under the repressive Chilean regime...
Gonzalez did arrive at Harvard to accept the award, but only after several Nieman Fellows spent a day on the telephone with diplomats and Chilean judges...
Howard Simons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, asked Alvear as well as a 1987-88 Nieman Fellow, Rosental Alvis, to help get Gonzalez out of Chile. The three placed calls to the American ambassador to Santiago and the Chilean ambassador to the United States. "The constant calling eventually resulted in the Chilean government letting her go," said Alvear...