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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish: [roˈβeɾto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos] ⓘ; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos ( escuchar) ( Santiago de Chile, 28 de abril de 1953- Barcelona, 15 de julio de 2003) 2 fue un escritor y poeta chileno, autor de más de dos decenas de libros, entre los cuales destacan sus novelas Los detectives salvajes, ganadora del Premio Herralde en 1998 y el Premio Rómulo Gallegos en 1999, y la póstuma 2666 .
Jul 11, 2024 · Roberto Bolaño (born April 28, 1953, Santiago, Chile—died July 15, 2003, Barcelona, Spain) was a Chilean author who was one of the leading South American literary figures at the turn of the 21st century.
Jul 15, 2003 · He was notorious in Chile for his fierce attacks on Isabel Allende and other members of the literary establishment. In 2003, after a long period of declining health, Bolaño passed away. Bolaño was survived by his Spanish wife and their two children, whom he once called "my only motherland."
Oct 6, 2014 · In this first-ever biography of the acclaimed Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, a picture emerges of a writer whose childhood eccentricities developed into a fearless drive that was bent on ...
Jul 17, 2023 · Bolaño somehow emerged as the first global publishing phenomenon of the 21st century, leaving behind a large body of posthumous work that is still expanding. Why isn’t there yet a Bolaño biography? Does it matter that there isn’t? And more broadly, what is Bolaño’s legacy today?
Feb 24, 2022 · The Enigma of Roberto Bolaño David Kurnick’s new book reappraises the Chilean writer, clarifying the preconceptions and myths that haunted his earliest work. Lily Meyer
Nov 12, 2008 · The Chilean exile poet Roberto Bolaño, born in 1953, lived in Mexico, France and Spain before his death in 2003, at 50, from liver disease traceable to heroin use years before.
Aug 9, 2005 · SANTIAGO, Chile - Even before his death two years ago at 50, Roberto Bolano was emerging as his generation's premier Latin American writer.
Mexicans Lost in the Labyrinth of Mexico City. Bolaño burst onto the American literary scene in 2007—four years after his death—with The Savage Detectives. The long novel is divided into three sections: I) Mexicans Lost in Mexico (1975), II) The Savage Detectives (1976-1996), and III) The Sonora Desert (1976).
