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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.In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which ...
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- Roberto Bolaño Ávalos, 28 April 1953, Santiago, Chile
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- 15 July 2003 (aged 50), Barcelona, Spain
Roberto Bolaño. 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 ...
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May 6, 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. Bolaño’s family moved throughout Chile at the behest of his truck-driver father until 1968, when they settled in Mexico City.
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Jul 15, 2003 · For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector — working during the day and writing at ...
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You have to question the detective skills, to say nothing of the clerical skills, of Roberto Bolaño’s literary executors. The job they did of sifting through his unpublished writings in the ...
8433910868. The Savage Detectives ( Spanish: Los detectives salvajes) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño published in 1998. Natasha Wimmer 's English translation was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. The novel tells the story of the search for a 1920s Mexican poet, Cesárea Tinajero, by two 1970s poets, the Chilean ...
Feb 1, 2019 · Over the last few years, Roberto Bolaño’s reputation, in English at least, has been spreading in a quiet contagion; the loud arrival of a long novel, “The Savage Detectives,” will ensure ...
